University of Southampton Malaysia event highlights skills for Artificial Intelligence revolution

'You need to have people who'd done Maths and Science, can do machine programming, data analysis or manage data. You need data scientists, machine learning programmers and computer scientists as well as mathematicians,' said Prof Dame Wendy Hall of University of Southampton.

YEARS ago, we were munching on popcorn or in our pyjamas at home watching movies about Artificial Intelligence (AI), awed by how smart technology was.

Today, AI has become a reality and countries are racing to be advanced in the technology, with the application of AI said to greatly enhance levels of economic and social development, among others.