Chapter 8. Future Trends and Emerging Possibilities in AI

Data science and artificial intelligence (AI) have become popular in recent decades and boosted innovation in various sectors due to its real-life applications. An enormous amount of data produced in various sectors can be utilized to produce meaningful insights about the data using data analytical tools. Data science deals with understanding the data, transforming raw data into knowledgeable information that can be used for decision-making. AI is one of the emerging fields of computer science that requires human intelligence to perform different functions, such as predictive analysis, recognizing speech, images, vision, and language translation. AI-based systems can also make decisions using data and rules with minimum human intervention. AI techniques are integration of both machine learning (ML) and deep learning paradigms. Numerous applications are leveraging benefits from AI these days in the fields of e-commerce, navigation, healthcare, agriculture, cybersecurity, NLP, Cloud, and Internet of Things. This chapter aims to focus on the recent trends and innovations in data science and AI. Moreover, it also provides through analysis of emerging possibilities in data science and AI. This research offers a significant direction to the researchers through a comprehensive study of AI, highlighting the basic mechanisms to practical applications, from current status to future trends.