What Is
Artificial Intelligence...?
What Is
Artificial Intelligence okay I will destroy humans this article sums up the
perception of artificial intelligence for most of us but at present, we're at no
risk of being destroyed by machines however the tech tycoon Elon Musk begs to
differ he quotes that AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human
civilization now whether artificial intelligence is a threat or not is
debatable let me know your thoughts in the comment section for now let me
introduce you to artificial intelligence the term artificial intelligence was
first coined decades ago in the year 1956 by John McCarty at the Dartmouth
conference he defined artificial intelligence as the science and engineering of
making intelligent machines in a sense Artificial Intelligence is a technique
of getting machines to work and behave like humans in the recent past.
Artificial Intelligence has been able to
accomplish this by creating machines and robots that are being used in a wide
range of fields including healthcare robotics marketing business analytics and
many more however many AI applications are not perceived as AI because of we often
tend to think of artificial intelligence as robots doing our daily course but
the truth is artificial intelligence has found its way into our daily lives it
has become so general that we don't realize we use it all the time for instance
have you ever wondered how Google is able to give you such an accurate search
results or how your Facebook feed always gives you content based on your
interest the answer to these questions is artificial intelligence now before I
go any further let me clear a very common misconception people often tend to
think that Artificial Intelligence machine learning and deep learning are the
same since they have usual or common applications for example Siri is an
application of artificial intelligence machine learning and the so how are
these technologies deleted artificial intelligence is the science of getting
machines to mimic the behavior of humans machine learning is a subset of AI that
focuses on getting machines to make decisions by feeding them data on the other
hand deep learning is a subset of machine learning that uses the concept of
neural networks to solve complex problems so to sum it up artificial
intelligence machine
learning
and deep learning are interconnected fields machine learning and deep learning
needs artificial intelligence by providing a set of algorithms and neural
networks to solve data-driven problems however Artificial Intelligence is not
restricted to only machine learning and deep learning it covers a vast domain
of fields including natural language processing object detection computer
vision robotics expert systems and so on now artificial intelligence can be
structured along three evolutionary stages or you can say that there are three
different types of artificial intelligence.
first we
have the artificial narrow intelligence artificial general intelligence and
finally, artificial superintelligence artificial narrow intelligence which is
also known as weak AI involves applying artificial intelligence only to
specific tasks now many currently existing systems that claim to use artificial
intelligence is operating as a weak AI focused on a narrowly defined specific
problem now Alexa is a very good example of narrow intelligence it operates
within a limited predefined range of functions, there is no genuine intelligence
or no self-awareness despite being a sophisticated example of weak AI other
examples of weak.
Artificial
Intelligence includes the face verification that you see in your iPhone the
autopilot feature at Tesla the social humanoid Sophia which is built at Hanson
robotics and finally we have Google Maps all of these applications are based on
weak AI or artificial narrow intelligence now let's take a look at artificial
general intelligence artificial general intelligence is also known as strong AI
it involves machines that possess the ability to perform any intellectual task
that a human being can you see machines don't possess human-like abilities we have
a strong processing unit that can perform high-level computations but they are
not yet capable of thinking and reasoning like a human there are many experts
who doubt that artificial general intelligence will ever be possible and there
are also many who question whether it should be desirable I am sure all of you
have heard of Stephen Hawking's now he warned us that strong AI would take off
on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate human who are
limited by slow biological evolution couldn't compete and would be superseded
coming to artificial superintelligence this is a term that refers to the time
when the capabilities of computers will surpass human beings artificial super
intelligence is presently seen as a hypothetical situation as depicted in
movies and science-fiction books where machines will take over the world
however, tech masterminds like Elon Musk believe that artificial
superintelligence will take over the world by the year 2040 now that you know
the different types of artificial intelligence let's take a look at how an AI is
used in the real world from spotting an eat planet solar system which is 2,500
light-years away to composing sonnets and poems the applications of AI have
covered all possible domains in the market in the finance sector JP Morgan's
G's contract intelligent platform uses artificial intelligence machine learning
and image recognition software to analyze legal documents and extract important
data points and clauses in a matter of seconds now manually reviewing.
12,000
agreements take over $36,000 but AI was able to do this in a matter of seconds
coming to healthcare IBM is one of the pioneers that has developed.
AI software
perfectly for medicine, more than 230 healthcare organizations worldwide use IBM
Watson technology in 2016 IBM Watson AI technology was able to cross-reference
20 million oncology records and correctly diagnose a rare leukaemia condition in
a patient coming to the next application Google’s AI eye doctor is another
initiative taken by google where they are working with an Indian ike a chain to
develop a AI system which can examine retina scans and identify a condition
called diabetic retinopathy which causes blindness coming to social media
platforms like Facebook artificial intelligence is used for face verification
where in machine learning and deep learning concepts are used to detect facial
features and tag your friends another such example is Twitter's AI which is
being used to identify hate speech and terroristic languages in tweets it makes
use of machine learning deep learning and natural language processing to filter
out offensive content, the company discovered and banned three hundred thousand
terrorist linked accounts ninety-five percent of which were found by non-human
artificially intelligent machines the Google predictive search is one of the
most famous AI applications when you begin typing a search term and Google
makes recommendations for you to choose from that is e AI in action predictive
searches are based on data that Google collects about you such as your location
your age and other personal details by using AI the search engine attempts to
guess what you might be trying to find next we have virtual assistants watch
will assistance like Siri Alexa and Cortana are examples of artificial
intelligence a newly released google virtual assistant called Google duplex as
astonished millions of people not only cannot respond to calls and book
appointments for you it adds a human touch now listen to this clip and try to
distinguish between the AI and the human cai-you.
Another
famous application of artificial intelligence is self-driving cars AI
implements computer vision image detection and deep learning to build cars that
can automatically detect objects and drive around without human intervention
Elon Musk talks a ton about how AI is implemented in Tesla's self-driving cars
and autopilot features he quoted that Tesla will have fully self-driving cars
ready by the end of the year and a Robo taxi version one that can ferry
passengers without anyone behind the wheel so I can go on and on about the
various er applications since the emergence of AI in 1950s we have seen an
exponential growth in its potential AI covers domains such as machine learning
deep learning neural networks natural language processing knowledge base export
systems and so on it has also made its way into computer vision and image
processing as AI is branching out into every aspect of our lives is it possible
that one day e I might take over our lives and if it is possible how long will
this take well it may be sooner than you think it is estimated that AI will
take over the world within the next thirty years by then I hope we develop some
sort of teleportation machine that helps us escape our very own creation let us
know your thoughts in the comments so that's all from my side until next time
happy learning I hope you have enjoyed listening.