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<p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills supports the research and development
of machine learning through the Research Councils, for example the current Engineering
and Physical Sciences Research Council portfolio contains nearly 150 research and
training grants involving aspects of artificial intelligence.</p><p>The Science and
Technology Facilities Council’s Hartree Centre uses high performance computing combined
with big data analytics, cognitive computing and visualisation techniques to collaborate
with industry and research partners. The latest government investment of £113 million
at Hartree in a cognitive and data centric computing centre (announced in the 2014
Autumn Statement) has attracted inward investment from IBM and other hi-tech industry
exceeding £200 million.</p><p>Research Councils also support existing machine learning
applications, for example the Medical Research Council support programmes which involve
the use of machine learning tools for image analysis and in analysing and predicting
risk of Serious Adverse Events for hospital patients.</p><p>The Arts and Humanities
Research Council also support aspects of research and development on machine learning
relating to its importance within the rapidly emerging field of the digital humanities
and issues relating to ethical, philosophical, legal and historical perspectives of
machine learning and human-computer interactions.</p>
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