Other than security and safety monitoring, the AI chip can also be used in processing and analysing big data in finance and medicine, for investment and disease diagnosis decision-making, virtual reality, robot automation, smart home, physical and cognitive training, drug and gene discover. “Data Science Lab is currently researching on a novel parallel and distributed AI algorithm and is planning to deploy it in an environment of clustered edge computing AI chips. In this way, a real-time big data analytics with a supercomputing power can be done and is a breakthrough in AI development,” said Dr Adela LAU, Deputy Director of the HKU SAAS Data Science Lab.