By: Marissa Miczek
Artificial Intelligence
As you may know, AI, a simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, is rapidly advancing. AI encompasses machine learning, neural networks, and natural language processing. AI’s tasks include learning, reasoning, and problem-solving, mimicking human intelligence in a sense. Finding correlations and patterns is how AI makes predictions for future states and ultimately improves. Although there are some ethical concerns including bias and fairness, transparency, and data security, AI is revolutionizing individual’s work and lives. For certain tasks, AI works in fact better than humans in repetitive tasks such as analyzing numbers in fields and finding errors. Overall, AI is present all around us, and even narrow AI such as Apple’s Siri has been widely used by the general public.
AI Applications
Automobiles
Self-driving cars such as the Waymo Driver use AI and machine learning to calculate safe routes. This allows the car to respond in real-time to changes in its environment.
https://waymo-blog.blogspot.com/2023/10/waymax.html
Social Media
AI is used in Instagram to detect and remove content that goes against Community Guidelines. Content that needs to be further analyzed is sent to a human review team.
https://help.instagram.com/423837189385631
Videogaming
AI is used for gaming to make images and backgrounds photorealistic. It can also create smart, human-like NPCs to interact with players.
https://ai.engineering.columbia.edu/ai-applications/ai-video-games/
Finance
AI can help in personal finance applications by collecting your personal data and information to provide you with financial advice such as a checklist for the tax season!
https://www.zdnet.com/article/even-turbotax-is-adding-an-ai-tool
-heres-what-intuit-assist-can-do-for-you/
Robots
- Robot vacuum cleaners
- Mopping Robot
- Robot window cleaner
- Robot toys
- Interactive companions!
There are so many fascinating robots and advancements in AI! Search up something you are interested in and you are bound to find some articles. Below are some articles you can look into!
https://www.schlage.com/blog/categories/2023/01/robots-for-home.html
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