What is artificial intelligence?

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According to the dictionary, artificial intelligence is: “the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.” Artificial intelligence makes it possible for machines to learn from their experiences, adjust to new inputs and perform human-like tasks. They rely heavily on language processing and deep learning. AI has become more popular today thanks to increased data volumes, advanced algorithms, and improvements in computing power and storage.

In the 1960s, the US Department of Defense took interest in the early AI research of the 1950s where topics such as problem solving and symbolic methods were explored, and began training computers to mimic basic human reasoning. For example, in the 1970s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) completed street mapping projects, and produced personal intelligent assistants in 2003, long before Siri and Alexa existed.
Every industry has a high demand for AI capabilities, especially question answering systems that can be used for legal assistance, patent searches, risk notification and medical research. Currently, AI is being used in health care to provide personalised medicine and X-ray readings, and personal health care assistants have been produced which can remind you to take your pills, exercise or eat healthier. AI is used in retail to provide virtualized shopping experiences, manufacturing to analyse factory IoT data and in sports to capture images of game play in order to provide coaches with reports on how to better organise the game – including optimal field positions and strategy.
AI is a growing industry and has replaced many jobs that humans once had. However, AI systems are highly specialised. They are focused on a single task – for example a system that plays chess cannot play poker. Therefore, they are far from behaving like humans and cannot replace a human in many senses. To read more, click here


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