Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. This exciting technology an enormous range of applications in many industries. Businesses across several industry verticals have taken to AI, whether to reach out to more customers or to improve their operations.
Artificial Intelligence (AI): A brief introduction
Let’s first briefly understand what AI is. Artificial Intelligence is a computing technology that helps computers to learn from past experiences, moreover, it enables them to adjust to new data inputs. The objective of this technology is to enable a computer to accomplish human-like activities.
AI makes computers “learn” from a massive amount of data so that they can perform their desired tasks. This technology is completely different from rule-based automation, and it uses technologies like Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Read more about AI in “Artificial intelligence: what it is and why it matters”.
The beginning of AI could be traced back to the war-time work of British computer scientist Alan Turing, however, the word “Artificial Intelligence” first emerged in 1956. This was in the course of the Dartmouth Conference in the same year, organized by American computer scientist John McCarthy. The research on AI went through various ups and downs, and you can read “History of AI” to learn about them.
AI can be divided into two categories, and they are “Narrow AI” and “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI). You can find examples of narrow AI in many applications around you, e.g., Google search, image recognition software, Siri, Alexa, IBM’s Watson, and self-driving cars.
Narrow AI uses machine learning and deep learning extensively, and it’s abuzz with various exciting developments. However, research is still in progress on AGI, i.e., the category of AI that will create machines with human-level intelligence that will do any task.
Where can you apply AI?
Some experts believe that AI will assume as much importance for us in the future as electricity since this technology will power a wide range of activities in society and business.
For example:
DataBot
DataBot is an AI-powered virtual assistant, and it’s available on Windows 10, Android, and iOS. It’s also available on Xbox One, iPad, iPod, Android tablets, and Windows phones.
This app answers your questions in its voice, and it addresses the topics that matter to you. DataBot has services integrated within it that provide you with images, information, and multimedia presentations based on the topic of your interest. It uses Google searches, Wikipedia, RSS channels, etc. to provide you with information.
You can customize DataBot according to your preference of language, voice, etc. DataBot can speak and understand English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese. Using DataBot, you can share information using SMS, email, and social media.
Just we need to combine the AI with a quantum PC and this will be the next step of human brain based PC-Software.