What is AI and its Applications

What is AI?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the ability of a machine to display human-like capabilities such as reasoning, learning, planning and creativity.

AI enables technical systems to perceive their environment, deal with what they perceive, solve problems and act to achieve a specific goal. 

The computer receives data - already prepared or gathered through its own sensors such as a camera - processes it and responds.

Figure: Artificial Intelligence
(Source: https://creativecommons.org)
 

What can AI do?

· AI can perceive and recognize elements in images and videos such as faces, objects, animals, and scenes. This enables AI to perform tasks such as facial recognition, security surveillance, medical diagnosis, and autonomous driving.

Figure: AI Face Recognition

· AI can process human language, including spoken and written forms, and understand its meaning and context. This enables AI to communicate with humans through voice assistants, chatbots, translators, and summarizers.

Figure: AI Voice Assistant

· AI can make successful predictions based on data and models, such as weather forecasts, stock market trends, customer behavior, and disease outbreaks.

Figure: AI Voice Assistant
(Source:https://theconversation.com)

· AI can protect people from cyber attacks by detecting and preventing malicious activities such as hacking, phishing, spamming, and identity theft.

Figure: Cybersecurity
(Source:https://www.globalsign.com)

· AI can make recommendations based on user preferences and behavior, such as products to purchase, movies to watch, music to listen to, and news to read.

Figure: AI Recommendation System
(Source: https://thingsolver.com)

· AI can write publishable articles based on data and information sources, such as news reports, sports summaries, product reviews, and blog posts.

Figure: AI Writing
(Source:https://www.scientificamerican.com)

· AI can help paralyzed patients write with their minds through brain-computer interfaces that use decoding neural signals and converting them into text.

Figure: Brain-computer interface
(Source:https://www.usni.org)

· AI can even master creative processes such as producing visual art, writing poetry, composing music, and taking photographs.

Figure: AI and Music
(https://www.electronicbeats.net)

As technology advances and more data becomes available, artificial intelligence will continue to develop and expand its capabilities.

Achieving the functions and applications of AI depends on different types of AI models. The choice of an appropriate AI model depends on the nature of the problem and the available data.

If you would like to learn more about AI models, please click here.

Figure: What can you do with artificial intelligence
(Source: https://tecknoworks.com)