Let's talk about AI

 

First of all what is AI?

Artificial Intelligence is a system or if I may say an i-Human designed by us. To make machine what a human can do is AI. They are the systems that mimics and depends on data of daily human activities from life. From SIRI to self-driving cars all is AI.

Today’s AI systems are narrow AI i.e. weak AI, from ‘Narrow AI’, I am referring to the AI that can only do internet searches or facial recognition or theorems for playing games like chess and many more. However, the long-term goal that we have is to reach the level of general AI i.e. ‘Strong AI’ so that we could achieve a position where there will be no difference between the work that Humans do and AI can do too. There is also a level which is a long-way to achieve that is ‘Super AI’ which is the ultimate form of AI which will be discussed further.

 

How did AI originated?

At least since the first century BCE, human have been intrigued by the possibility of creating machines that mimic the human brain. In modern times, the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was coined in 1955 by John McCarthy. In 1956, McCarthy and others organized a conference titled the “Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence”. This beginning led to the creation of machine learning, deep learning, predictive analytics, and now to prescriptive analytics. It also gave rise to a whole new field of study, data science.

Why AI is important?

Today, the amount of data that is generated by humans and machines far outpaces human’s ability to absorb, interpret and make complex decision based on the data. AI forms the basis of computer learning and is the future of all complex decision making. For example:- Fraud Detection, is used in financial services to monitor and detect fraudulent payment card transactions in real time. Virtual Customer Assistance, call centres uses VCA to predict and respond to customer inquiries outside human interaction and when a person initiates dialog on a webpage via chat, the person is often interacting with a computer running specialized AI.

 

Impact of AI in future

The AI is capable of changing the limits that humans have. So, here are some of the things you should be looking out in the future. They are as follows:-

1.    Education

 In this respective field we can expect AI to go crazy where tutors or professors in future will able to identify whether a student is getting bored or excited to study a particular topic. From this a tutor or professor can make their lectures interesting for majority of the students.

 

2.    Healthcare

Here, AI is making progress already as we consider it. If we think more in future there will be self-service chat bots for patients, Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system will be created for better performance at the diagnosis, virtual nursing which will monitor you 24*7, Keeping a virtual medical review record provided by hospitals and clinics etc. can be achieved.

 

3.    Media

Talking about the entertainment field, AI is rapidly increasing in media. Taking example of Netflix, it is one the most subscribed media streaming company in the world. Why? Because of the recommendation systems and user experience of that platform is very well developed through AI. If we talk about the future in media there will be extensive use of AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality) and chatbots to enhance the content based on the customer reviews. There are going to be so much innovations in terms of consuming content from this platforms or theaters.

 

4.    Manufacturing

 In the field of manufacturing there is going to be the demand of the collaborative robots i.e. ‘co-bots’- that can work co-ordinately with a human colleague. There will be a risk where the AI robots will replace the labour workforce in many aspects. There will be too much of the data that will be generated from the automated machines at manufacturing locations where AI and machine learning will be needed. AI can also be used to detect malfunction or worst condition of the machines or some kind of equipment through sensors.

 

5.    Customer Service

AI is disrupting the customer service by making it more cost efficient, improving customer experience and easing the work of agents. Making agents productive in real-time that means prepare agent to be more successful in solving the customer’s problems in a short period of time, Automating the pre-interaction between the customer and company or any organization to reduce the respond time, Enabling self-service and personalization of customer service for the ease of customer experience.

 

6.    Transportation

Transportation is a task which is done on a daily basis, so in coming future the vehicles which can drive themselves i.e. autonomous vehicles will be introduced to reduce the human effort and increase the productivity of human mind. It going to be here soon. When these vehicles will be introduced it is going to be a mind-blowing innovation for many working professionals and many of the CEO because this will be an opportunity where they can use the time at their full without wasting their time in driving and reaching the destination.

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