AI Masters courses get industry and government backing

“This AI skills and talent investment will help nurture leading UK and international talent to ensure we retain our world-beating reputation in research and development,” said business secretary Greg Clark. “Artificial intelligence has great potential to drive up productivity and enhance every industry throughout our economy, from more effective disease diagnosis to building smart homes.”

AI is becoming an increasingly familiar tool in almost every sector and has been targeted by the UK government as one of its ‘Grand Challenges’. The schemes, aimed at people of different stages in higher education and available to researchers at a variety of levels, will aim to build AI skills for the next generation of scientists, engineers and programmers.

“Artificial intelligence is a disruptive technology in a range of sectors, enabling new products and services and transforming data science,” said Professor Sir Mark Walport, UKRI chief executive. “It allows us to develop new approaches to challenges as diverse as early disease diagnosis and climate change.