Artificial Intelligence demystified: All you need to know about Artificial Intelligence
In our everyday lives, we hear and see the impact artificial intelligence is making in the world today from beating chess grand-masters to saving lives,artificial intelligence have been trending today's news. We interact daily with artificial intelligence but only a handful of people really knows what artificial intelligence really means or are capable of doing.
What is artificial intelligence ?
To understand artificial intelligence, we must first understand the concept of 'intelligence', intelligence is the ability to learn, understand or deal with difficult or trying situations. Intelligence can also be defined as the ability to process information so that it can be used to inform future predictions and decisions.
When intelligence is engineered, it simply know as artificial intelligence. It can also be seen as any technique that enables computers to mimic human behavior such as learning and 'problem solving. Artificial intelligence is a research field on it own encomprising fields such as machine learning and deep learning. Artificial intelligence has been in development since the 1950s, but due to some technical reasons, was brought into limelight this decade.
So what can artificial intelligence do ?
From playing chess and checkers, to autonomous driving, planning your daily schedule even predicting the stock market. Artificial intelligence can do pretty much what humans are capable of doing. Being heavily developed by today's key technological players such as: Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, artificial intelligence are being integrated into our daily lives without us even capable of telling the differences.
Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Education:
AI are increasingly being used to teach subjects to young kids. Mark Zukerberg also built an AI to teach his daughter Mandarin and in Japan, AI are being used in schools.
Finance:
AI are being used to predict future market trends and make trading decisions at speed greater than human are capable of. Several consumer product are integrating Artificial Intelligence to help users optimize their spending and savings based on their personal habits and goals.
Human Industry:
AI are replacing humans in places when the nature of the job is risky and dangerous. AI are cost-effective and efficiency and provide less risk to people thereby they are in high demands in various industry of today.
Hospitals and Medicine:
From diagnosing diseases to studying progressiveness of sickness in patients, AI are sweeping the health sector.From drug creation to performing heart surgery, AI has no limit in the health sector.
Agriculture:
Artificial Intelligence are being used to monitor plants and animals for infections, and stop deforestation by monitoring forest activities.
Military:
With heavy development from the military, autonomous drones and robots capable of autonomous actions are being developed by every major country in the world for national security.,
Toys and Games:
Artificial intelligence are being used in games to create dynamic behavior in non player character . The public are seen an increase in AI toys specially for children.
The Public has generally been skeptical of the development of artificial intelligence with fears of lost of jobs to artificial intelligence taking over the world like in the terminator series. But in recent years people have become more open to the development of artificial intelligence due to their unending benefits to society and today, almost everyone interact with AI one way or another today.