This document provides an introduction to careers in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). It discusses how AI uses human-like problem solving and covers fields like medicine, finance, and engineering. ML is a subset of AI that uses techniques like machine learning to achieve AI goals. The document outlines 10 applications of AI and ML in areas such as customer support, personalized shopping, healthcare, finance, transportation, social media, smart homes, creative arts, and security/surveillance. It also discusses the scope and growth of careers in developing technologies for games, speech recognition, computer vision, robotics, and more. Global spending on AI is projected to double from $50.1 billion in 2020 to over $110 billion in