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forbes said that It is a sad paradox that, in the birthplace of celebrated computing pioneer Ada Lovelace, only 16 percent of engineering or computer degrees are conferred on women today. In the workplace, statistics show that, while 47 percent of the overall UK workforce is female, in the UK tech sector that falls to only 17 percent and to just 13 percent when it comes to programmers and software developers.
After a gestation period spanning six decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now a bona fide General-Purpose Technology (GPT) with wide-ranging, disruptive impacts. AI’s rate of diffusion will be much faster than with previous GPTs due to the global connectivity of the Internet and rapid advances in mutually supporting technologies such as sensors, cloud computing and 5G.
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