10 Things Everyone Needs To Know About AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing swiftly and efficiently. Owing to ever-powerful machine learning, it has resulted in immense growth in the accessibility of digital data and more and more sophisticated algorithms. Large technology firms around the world are investing in increasing their AI proficiencies. Furthermore, AI is very much capable of delivering substantial social benefits in health care, transportation, law enforcement, and more. Here are 10 things you should about AI:
1. AI’s roots can be traced back to long lost myths and history
Many believe that the conception of AI is a modern-day wonder. When it comes to AI, an image of a robot or other machine who can think like humans comes to mind. However, it is believed that the idea of a machine-man existed in some of the Greek Myths, for instance, the golden robots of Hephaestus. Moreover, there are the tales of alchemy in the Middle Ages where there were mentions of insertion of the human brain in non-living objects. Likewise, some religions are known to worship statues, and they believe that these statues have human intellect and emotion.
2. Alan Turing made a huge impact on AI
During 1950, Alan Turing had published his paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’. In this paper, he was trying to determine if a machine could succeed at what he named ‘The Imitation Game’. It is also the name of a film based on the biography of Alan Turing. The paper was first to introduce the concept of the Turing Test to the general public. In this test, a computer tries to differentiate between the genders of two individual players. This paper is mostly considered as the seminal work on the idea of AI.
3. AI is a part of Autonomous vehicles
AI has helped in creating one of the chief technological advancements in the transportation industry in the last few years. It is being used in creating autonomous vehicles, or more like vehicles that can operate themselves just like a human driver would do, except that there is no human involvement here. There are new vehicles such as Google’s self-driving cars, and a few autonomous drones. It wouldn’t have been possible to create them without the help of AI technology accessible today.
4. Large tech firms are investing in AI
Big tech firms along with the small startups are investing in the acquiring AI companies and technologies. Companies such as IBM, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Intel are a few examples of the tech giants who are betting their big bucks on various possibilities of AI in the present and future scenarios.
5. AI allows some robots to socialize
Created in MIT’s AI lab, a robot named Kismet, can communicate by identifying human body language and the way of speaking, and then interacting using that input. This robot was created by Cynthia Breazeal in the 1990s.
6. AI will be monitor and upgrade business processes
AI will be used to monitor and improve business processes to improve productivity. Robots will do repetitive tasks such as filling forms, producing reports and illustrations, generating documentation and instructions, etc. This automation of the processes will help in making things more accurate and streamlined.
7. AI will make data more accurate and accessible
As AI is quickly becoming a part of real-world processes and machines, the digital world has improved substantially over the last few years. Data has become increasingly accurate and available. It has helped in reducing the cost of collecting data and improving the quality of it. AI computers are powerful enough, and skilled in collecting accurate-enough data.
8. Human and AI work alongside
Time is not far when humans and AI-powered tools and robots will work alongside in almost all aspects of everyday personal and professional lives. These tools will allow people to make most of the human skills such as imagining, designing, strategizing, communicating, and more. For many, it would mean they should learn new skills to work alongside AI tools without losing their significance.
9. AI being used to make films, games, and music
The influence of AI in the entertainment industry is likely to increase in the coming years. As of now, the quality of AI-generated music, games, and storytelling has a large scope of improvement. But in the future, the more sophisticated machines might be able to produce enjoyable content just like humans can produce.
10. AI will work cybersecurity
As hacking, phishing and other cyberattacks become more sophisticated, AI smart technology will play an ever more important role in protecting people from these intrusions into their lives. AI can be used to detect the signs of digital activity or transaction patterns that are more likely to be the indicators of malicious threat or activity. AI will notify the concerned authorities in advance about the possibility of a breach in their defenses. So that they could take necessary precautionary steps in advance before their sensitive data gets compromised.
So far, AI has been creating opposite opinions. While large companies and research firms are investing lots of money in AI research and development, some scientists are warning people that AI might just prove to be the end of humanity. This debate doesn’t seem to end anytime soon.
Author Bio :- Rahul Som is a CEO and co-founder of Hopinfirst, one of the top Mobile App development Company which provide best iPhone app development and Android app development Services. Rahul is passionate about Startups, Technology and management and blogs frequently on the topics.
