It's been quite a few years since huge parts of our lives have ported over to digitalisation, and almost by accident, many organisations have accumulated swaths of data that they've more recently just realised could be turned into valuable analytics. Global trends by large corporations may hint at 2019 becoming the year of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Similar realisations have led to the prominence of machine learning and artificial intelligence in recent years, particularly in Singapore. There has even been talk about artificial intelligence as the fourth industrial revolution--probably why the Singaporean government is so keen on jumping aboard that train through advocacy, and throwing a lot of money into its development. It probably helps that artificial intelligence could make it easier for the island nation to govern its people--the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) foray into suptech (supervisory technology) comes to mind.