AI(Artificial Intelligence)

 What is AI(Artificial Intelligence)?

Humans have been, are, and will forever be thirsty to invent things that would make their lives easier and better by a thousandfold. 

The capacity of what a human mind can do has always baffled me. 

One such major invention would be what is called as AI- Artificial Intelligence. Wouldn’t it be great if machines could think? That’s precisely what AI is. We humans have natural intelligence. But if machines can think, it’d be artificial. 

So, AI is just a collective term for machines that can think. 

Why AI?

Today, the amount of data in the world is so humongous that humans fall short of absorbing, interpreting, and making decisions of the entire data, no, even part of the data. This complex decision-making requires beings that have higher cognitive skills than human beings. 

This is why we’re trying to build machines better than us, in other words, AI. Another major characteristic that AI machines possess but we don’t is repetitive learning. 

Humans are observed to find repetitive tasks highly boring. Accuracy is another factor in which we humans lack. Machines have extremely high accuracy in the tasks that they perform. Machines can also take risks instead of human beings. 

AI is used in various fields like: 

1. Health Care
2. Retail
3. Manufacturing
4. Banking

Now here are some examples of AI in real life.

 Robots are what come to mind first. They are machine replicas of human beings. They can think for themselves, take important decisions on their own without human help. Not all artificially intelligent machines need to look like human beings though. 

Some of the other examples include self-driving cars or Amazon Alexa or even Siri. One other important application can be speech recognition. Remember how you ask google by speaking instead of typing what you have to search for, into the search bar? That’s one of the applications right there. There are so many more applications but let me get on to other topics.