What is AI?

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be better understood by its application. With the help of knowing the area where we can use AI, we can better understand what artificial intelligence is.

Application of Artificial intelligence

1. 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.

2. 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 Spotily, 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.

3. Image and video processing

Face recognition is already a commodity used in many customer, 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 wild life 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.

What is AI and what is not AI?

Not an easy question!!!!

We can see almost anything from statistics and business analytics to manually encoded in if-then rules called AI.

Why is this so?

Why is the public perception of AI so nebulous?

We will look into the next article.

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