Future Trends and Developments

Intelligence will drive the next generation of technologies, not big data. Big data systems have some issues, as discussed in Chapter 1, Challenges in Big Data and Traditional AI, and the world is gradually transitioning from the data-centric era to the intelligence-centric generation. Federated learning (FL) will play a core role in wisdom-driven technologies. Thus, the time is now to welcome the world of collective intelligence.

In this chapter, we will talk about the direction of future AI technologies that are driven by the paradigm shift happening with FL. For many AI fields, such as privacy-sensitive areas and fields requiring scalability in machine learning (ML), the benefits and potential of FL are already significant, mainly because of the privacy-preserving and distributed learning aspects that FL naturally supports with its design. You will then learn about the different types of FL as well as the latest development efforts in that area...