Artificial Intelligence or AI means intelligence that is created by humans. Before Artificial Intelligence we had natural intelligence, which is created by God and given to all living beings.

Artificial Intelligence is also called machine intelligence. In Artificial Intelligence we make machines and technologies which are capable to study first and then perform accordingly rather than performing over instructions given by us.

“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.”

– Claude Shannon

There is another field or domain in computer science which we usually hear i.e. Machine Learning. Machine Learning is a part of Artificial Intelligence. In other words, we say that Machine Learning is a subset of Artificial Intelligence.

Understanding Artificial Intelligence 

Intelligence means the ability to find solutions to a problem by planning, thinking, and calculating. These things are done over your current situation. Therefore, Intelligence helps to decide whether to do different things for the same situation or the same thing for different situations. Now we go ahead to understand the components of Artificial Intelligence.

There are 4 Components of Artificial Intelligence i.e. Learning, Reasoning, Problem Solving, and Perception. Let us understand each component in brief.

1. Learning

Learning means remembering a fact and process. One can do it in many ways. The first is the Trial and Error method and the second is study and analysis. Trial and Error is done by performing all the possibilities and then coming to a solution after studying them. While in Study and Analysis, you first study all the possibilities and then perform them.

In Short, Trial and Error means to perform and then study while study and analysis mean, study, and then perform. Hence both are opposite to each other. Another type of learning is generalization. Generalization means giving knowledge of some general facts from which various other facts can be understood and then accordingly perform it.

For example, you train a kid by identifying all colors and identifying shapes of things. Then you train with how to mention a shape with a color. Therefore, in the future using generalization when a kid observes a shape and a color, then he/she will be able to form a sentence and mention them.

2. Reasoning

Reasoning means extracting some new information from the current information that you are studying. It is of two types i.e. Deductive, Inductive, Abductive. Deductive Reasoning means you first check the fact and then draw the results. While in the case of Inductive Learning, you first check the results and then draw the facts.

For example, you are seeing rain and find that the grass gets wet due to rain. So you can perform both Inductive and Deductive Reasoning at the same time. In Deductive you mention that – ‘Since it is raining, therefore, the grass is wet’. Whereas in Inductive you mention that – ‘Since the grass is wet, therefore rain has fallen.

Artificial Intelligence performs Reasoning using logic and codes that we write in a computer program. One can design algorithms for reasoning.

3. Problem Solving

Problem-solving means finding out all possible ways to reach a solution from the current situation. In Artificial Intelligence, Problem-solving is done using computer programs and algorithms.

Let us take a simple example of problem-solving in which we need to find 2 numbers whose sum is 17. For that we consider all possible first numbers and second numbers to obtain the result.

Therefore, in this way from problem-solving, we find two solutions i.e. 8, 9, and 9, 8.

4. Perception

Perception means the ability to see, hear, feel taste, smell, etc. In the human body, we can perceive through our sensory organs like eyes, ears, hands, tongue, and nose. In Artificial Intelligence perception is done using various sensors like camera sensors, audio sensors, motion sensors, thermal sensors, etc. Through perception, we understand the environment and perform actions accordingly.

OK! we have now briefly understood the components of artificial intelligence to find out how exactly it is. But here lies a question. What do we get from Artificial Intelligence? Because there is no existence of concepts with their underlying benefits. Now let us understand the benefits in the next section.

History of Artificial Intelligence

The history of Artificial Intelligence spans less than a Century which started in 1943 when the first mathematic model for building a neural network Paper proposed by Warren McCullough and Walter Pitts was published. They  published a paper on “A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity.”

There are some key events in history that show the evolution of AI to the real world and People started seeing AI in Day to day life. Let’s see some of these events in the late ’20s.

1997- World chess champion Gary Kasparov defeated by IBM’s Deep Blue.

2005- A self-driving car STANLEY, wins the DARPA Grand Challenge.

2008 – Google introduces the speech recognition feature in its iPhone app.

2014- Google makes the self-driving car which was the first to pass a state driving test.

2016- Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeats world champion Ancient Chinese gameGo player Lee Sedol.

and in 2020 you can see AI in almost every sector whether it is the e-commerce sector, Social media, Personal assistants, Industry robots, etc

Know more about the history of Artificial Intelligence

Benefits of Artificial Intelligence

There are different interpretations over describing its benefits which are somewhat the same as well as different from each other. There are some surprising benefits of AI while there are benefits along with the harms of AI to society. So, let’s just focus on the benefits.

1. Increase in Employment

There are some myths that Artificial Intelligence will steal jobs. Companies, Industries, Factories will replace humans with machines. But it is not the case. Instead, employment will relatively increase. This is because the number of employees required to handle AI equipment will be more than the number of employees being replaced by this equipment.

Artificial Intelligence technologies are so complex that you require a hierarchy of teams to handle various components of AI machines. A separate team to operate the machines, analyze the results, make understandable reports from results, perform maintenance activities, etc.

2. Reducing or Eliminating Mistakes Made by Humans

As humans, we have a tendency to make mistakes. This is not in the case of Artificial Intelligence Machines. Because of being a machine, they perform tasks based on memory and instructions. Further, They are intact in their storage disks unlike us where we study one thing and forget within minutes, hours, or days.

3. Reducing Workload from Humans

There are various activities one needs to do repeatedly in industries. Examples of these activities are verifying documents, conducting meetings, monitoring equipment, making reports, providing guidance, training, etc. Therefore, using learning, reasoning, and problem-solving capabilities with the nature of a machine, AI can easily perform all these activities with accuracy, speed, and trust.

4. Improving Healthcare Facilities

Due to the accuracy of AI machines, they are capable to perform surgeries and micro-surgeries with precise use of surgical instruments to operate on small human organs. Not only this, but Artificial Intelligence is also capable of giving advice to patients regarding medicines, lifestyles, regular diets, exercising, etc to improve their health and cure diseases.

5. Continuous Improvement in AI to Handle More Complex Tasks

Artificial Intelligence is not only sustaining but is also improving. One can design more optimized, sophisticated, intelligent algorithms for AI Programs. They find solutions to problems more effectively and efficiently in a timely manner. Artificial intelligence is also developing in terms of solving large and complex problems by dividing them into smaller and simpler problems, finding solutions for each, and integrating solution sets into a single and final solution.

Such improvements will make AI capable of handling tasks at the national and international levels like conducting the census, handling railways and airways records, school and college records, etc across the country.

6. Economical use of Energy Resources and Maintaining Work Environment

Artificial Intelligence is not only capable of performing large and complex tasks but is also capable to reserve various energy resources like electricity and fuel. In Industries, Companies, and Factories, AI can monitor the use of fans, lights, heaters, coolers, Air Conditioners, etc by checking whether humans are present or not. In case if Humans are not present, then they will accordingly switch off the appliances to conserve energy.

Artificial Intelligence will also monitor the suitable temperatures of working. AI will do this by storing the data of suitable temperatures and monitor the current working temperature and number of employees. Based on this data, AI will adjust the temperature, the humidity of air conditioners accordingly.

7. Improving Personal Life Experiences

Artificial Intelligence not only helps in doing professional works but can also entertain you. You can play games with them. For example, an AI capable of playing Chess is named AlphaZero. You can compete against AI in which you can either win from AI or AI can win from you.

Computer Games like Grand Theft Auto use Artificial Intelligence. The player can go in front of the citizen and can talk to them by pressing a button. The player will experience random conversations with citizens which is very real. It is so real that by sitting in India, you can know the culture and the way people talk in the United States of America.

The main advantage here is that since AI doesn’t feel fatigued, hence you can involve them for longer periods of time. This may not be possible with friends and family, in which they feel tired or need to take out their time to involve with you.

So, the above benefits provided by Artificial Intelligence will change the world, if implemented properly. Talking about implementation, we can find out whether AI is implemented or not by seeing its applications.

Artificial Intelligence Applications

There are vast fields of application areas like Security and Fraud Detection, Personal assistance and Consultancy, etc.

1. Personal Assistance

Technologies built for Personal Assistance are Siri, Alexa, Cogito, Boxever, Amazon.com, Netflix, Pandora, and Nest. Apple made Siri and Amazon made Alexa. These technologies also work on the emotional aspects of a person. You will feel like these machines also have feelings. This is because they are capable of expressing themselves with emotional intelligence.

2. Fraud Detection

This application is for banks. Manufacturers train these technologies to detect any illegal transactions taking place. They feed the machines with data and the process of legal and illegal transactions. Based on a 100% cross-match, the AI will alarm the security to take action against fraudulent activities. Also, these technologies are regularly fed with new transaction processes and schemes to keep updated.

3. Consumer Support

Artificial Intelligence is used by consumer support by creating messaging applications on which chat-bots are assigned. When you use the messenger and send messages, chat-bots will receive them. Since they are capable of understanding your language, hence they respond with a satisfactory answer. They help you by noting down your complaint, searching for the product you like, explaining the product, directing you towards correct references.

4. Self-Driving Cars

Google is already working on self-driving cars. They tested these cars by running millions of kilometers. You can assign a destination location on its interface and the vehicle drops you at the destination with the correct location. These vehicles can even pick you up from your destination to home. The vehicle is equipped with a number of camera sensors. These sensors are capable to detect obstacles around all angles of the vehicle and accordingly maneuver them.

Self-Driving Cars are highly useful for small children for dropping them at school and picking. Similarly, it is also useful for senior citizens.

5. Agriculture

Artificial Intelligence is capable of providing robots and drones. They will replace all manpower required to complete agricultural activities like preparing lands, seeding the land, fertilizing it, extracting properly grown crops, filtering dust from crops, etc.

These machines will contain camera sensors that can also monitor the fertility of the soil and the quality of crops. Also, you can use them to detect whether crops are fresh or stale.

Conclusion-

Artificial Intelligence is becoming  Popular day by day, the way it’s influencing people, the way they Interact, Live.  Ai has improved the customer experience, Productivity, and automated most of the Processes which were loopholes previously in the Systems. We will see more advanced, developed  Ai solutions in the future.

Let us know in the comments what are your Famous AI Solution which you used in your day-to-day life.

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