The elements of AI (Artificial Intelligence)

What is AI?

Artificial Intelligence is one of the emerging technologies that try to simulate human reasoning in AI systems.

It is the ability to use memory,  knowledge, experience, understanding, reasoning, imagination and judgement to solve the problem and adapt to a new situation. It is intelligence exhibited by machines. Example: autonomous vehicle, google car, apple online assistance Siri.

It may also be defined as the ability of a computer programme to learn and think. AI is demonstrated by a machines’ ability to understand, think and act on a problem in the same way a human would in the same situation.

Application of Artificial intelligence:

1.  Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Companies are applying machine learning to make better and faster diagnoses than humans.  It understands natural language and can respond to questions asked of it.

AI is a study realized to emulate human intelligence into computer technology that could assist both, the doctor and the patients in the following ways:

• Providing a laboratory for the examination, representation and cataloguing medical information
• Devising a novel tool to support decision making and research
• Integrating activities in medical, software and cognitive sciences
• Offering a content-rich discipline for the future scientific medical communities.

2.Self-driving cars

They require a combination of AI techniques of many kinds:

• Search and planning – To find the most convenient route between origin and destination.
• Computer Vision – to identify the obstacles
• Decision making under uncertainty – To cop up with the complex and dynamic environment

The same technology is also used in other autonomous systems such as

• Delivery robots
• Flying drones
• Autonomous ships

Implications

• Road safety will eventually improve as the reliability of the system surpasses human level.
• The efficiency of logistics chains when moving goods will improve.
• Humans move into a supervisory role, keeping an eye on what is going on while machined take care of driving.

There may be more implications that we have not enough thought about yet.

3.Content Recommendation

A lot of information that we encounter is personalized, for e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media contents, Online advertisements, Music recommendation on Spotify, movie recommendation on Netflix, HBO, and other streaming services, online publisher such as newspapers, broadcasting company websites as well as search engines such as Google also personalize the content they offer.

The algorithm that determines the content that we see over the internet is based on AI.

Implications

• While many companies don’t want to reveal the details of their algorithms, being aware of the basic principles helps us understand the potential implications. These involve so-called filter bubbles, echo chambers, troll factories, fake news, new forms of propaganda etc.

4.Image and video processing

Face recognition is already a commodity used in many customers, business and government applications such as

• Organizing our photos according to people
• Automatic tagging on social media
• Passport control

Similar techniques can be used to recognize other cars and obstacles around an autonomous car, to estimate the wildlife populations.

AI can also be used to generate or alter the visual content.

Examples:

• Style Transfer – To adapt our personal photos to look like they were painted etc.
• Computer-generated characters in motion pictures such as Avatar, The Lord of the Rings, and Pixar animations (where the animated characters replicate the gestures made by real human actors.)

Implications:

• When such techniques advanced and become more widely available, it will be easy to create natural-looking fake videos of events that will be impossible to distinguish from real footage.

5.Education

It automates grading, giving educators more time. It can also assess students and adapt to their needs, helping them work at their own pace.

What is AI and what is not AI?

AI has many definitions, such as machines that can think like humans, machines that act rationally, a computer system that can perceive, reason and act, etc.

Thus any machine which does not demonstrate the ability to think, act, reason, like a human does in the same situation should not be termed as AI.

Why is the public perception of AI so nebulous?

Public perception of AI is so nebulous as this is because

• There’s no officially agreed definition.
• The legacy of science fiction exists.
• IT is really hard to understand that we are not a data scientist.

Artificial Intelligence and technology are one side of the life that always interest and surprise us with the new ideas, topics, innovations, product etc. AI is still not implemented as the films representing it(i.e. intelligent robots), however, there are many important tries to reach the level and to compete in the market, like sometimes the robots that they show in TV.

Nevertheless, the hidden projects and the development of industrial companies.

In the end, we’ve been in this research through the AI definitions, brief history, applications of AI in public, applications of AI in the military, ethics of AI, and the three rules of robotics. This is not the end of AI, there is more to come from it, who knows what the AI can do for us in the future, maybe it will be a whole society of robots.

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