What is Artificial Intelligence?

What is Artificial Intelligence?

I will destroy humans this video 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.

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.

How does Artificial Intelligence work?

AI (Artificial Intelligence)  is a technique of getting machines to work and behave like humans in the recent past. AI 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 Artificial Intelligence.

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 accurate search results or how your Facebook feed always gives you content based on your interest the answer to these questions is artificial intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence Means 

Now let me clear to you, a very common misconception people often tend to think that artificial intelligence machine learning and deep learning are the same since they have common applications.

Example: Siri is an example of artificial intelligence. Man-made brainpower means artificial intelligence is the study of getting machines to impersonate the conduct of people AI is a subset of artificial intelligence that spotlights on getting machines to settle on choices by encouraging them information. Its speech recognition engine uses advanced machine learning technologies to function.

On the other side 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, both are interconnected.

And deep learning needs artificial intelligence by providing a set of algorithms and neural networks to solve data-driven problems.

What is AI?

however artificial intelligence (AI) 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 many more.

Types of Artificial Intelligence

Now artificial intelligence can be structured along three evolutionary stages or you can say that there are three different types of artificial intelligence.

• Artificial Narrow Intelligence 

• Artificial General Intelligence 

• Artificial Super Intelligence.

Define Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Narrow Intelligence 

Artificial Narrow Intelligence which is also known as weak artificial intelligence. which involves applying artificial intelligence only to specific tasks. 

Now many currently existing systems that claim to use artificial intelligence are operating as a weak AI focused on a narrowly defined specific problem.

Example 

Alexa is one of the most popular examples of artificial narrow intelligence. It operates within a limited predefined range of functions. Being a sophisticated example of weak, don’t have any genuine intelligence or no self-awareness.

AI other examples of weak AI include 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

Artificial General Intelligence 

Artificial general intelligence is also known as strong AI. Artificial general intelligence 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 several  strong processing units 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.

Here I am quoted an example of Prof. Stephen Hawking's

I am sure all of you have heard of Prof Stephen Hawking's; now he warned us that strong AI would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution couldn't compete and would be superseded coming to artificial super-intelligence.

This is a term that refers to the time when the capabilities of computers will surpass human beings. 

Artificial Super Intelligence.

Presently; Artificial super intelligence is seen as a hypothetical situation, as portrayed in Hollywood science-fiction movies and books where machines will take control over the world.

However, tech masterminds like Elon Musk believe that artificial super intelligence will take over the world by the year 2040.

How AI Works? 

let's take a look at how Artificial Intelligence is used in the real world.

AI has 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.

Working in Artificial Intelligence

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 leukemia 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 Ikea chain to develop an AI system that can examine retina scans and identify a condition called diabetic nephropathy, which causes blindness.

Social media platforms like Facebook; artificial intelligence are used for face verification wherein 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 terrorist languages in tweets.

It utilizes AI  of machine learning, deep learning, and natural or common language processing to filter out offensive content the organization found and prohibited three hundred thousand fear-based oppressors connected records or linked accounts ninety-five percent of which were found by non-human machines.

Google predictive search is one of the most famous and popular AI application when you begin typing a search term and Google makes recommendations for you to choose from, that is  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 artificial intelligence the search engine attempts to guess what you might be trying to find.

Next, I am talking about virtual assistants its works the same as Siri, Alexa, and Cortana. The virtual assistant is a popular example of artificial intelligence. A newly released google virtual assistant called Google duplex.

One more famous application of artificial intelligence is self-driving cars. 

Artificial intelligence - 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 (co-founder of Tesla) talks 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.

Growth And Potential.

Artificial intelligence 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. artificial intelligence is branching out into every aspect of our lives.

Is it possible that one day AI might take over our lives?

If it is possible,  how long will this take well it may be sooner than you think.

It is estimated that artificial intelligence will take over the world within the next thirty years by then.

Conclusion 

Artificial Intelligence is a simulation of Human nervous systems to provide information to the decision-making process. 

Computer-based artificial intelligence is as yet advancing and still needs many decades to meet the intricacy of the brain and its processing power.

Artificial intelligence has some fixed technique of calculation of the perspective and utilizing the parallel calculation of these systems.

Now whether artificial intelligence is a threat or not is debatable let me know your thoughts in the comment section for now.

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