Piero Tintori says he was even contacted directly by a number of governments

Piero Tintori says he was even contacted directly by a number of governments

With the firm's headquarters in Dublin, plus offices in the US, Australia and Poland, it uses Amazon's cloud computing system Amazon 

Web Services, to allow everything to work online.

Mr Tintori says he was also contacted directly by five governments (whom he declines to name), who were keen for school exams to go ahead.

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Better Examinations is just one example of the increased use of ML in response to this year's pandemic, with the technology being used to do work far more quickly than humans, such as marking exam papers.

But what exactly is ML? It is a method of data analysis, whereby computer algorithms are used to speedily process vast amounts of data, to make predictions, identify patterns and replicate actions that humans do in their day-to-day jobs.

The use of ML is expected to grow so much over the next four years that its estimated global economic value is expected to rise from $7.3bn (£5.7bn) this year, to $30.6bn in 2024, according to one study.