Real World Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is one of the major developments of modern technology. It’s advent and evolution was pushed on and enhanced by the uses it presents in numerous fields, be it in automobiles to healthcare to even e-commerce websites! AI essentially refers to a machine’s ability to think and act as humanly as possible within given resources, information and data.
Doubtful about what to buy? Don’t know the exact name of the item or material you want to search for? Need to know the directions to a certain place? Wondering when the future of cars and travelling in them involve, not driving? Well, the answers to all the questions lies in two words, Artificial Intelligence!
Artificial Intelligence has many more potential applications for the present and the future. That said, do we actually know where and what roles AI plays these days? Let’s take a look and understand how AI appears in our daily lives and has made it easier!
1. Social Media
Ever wonder how when you are about to tag your friends in a photo, Instagram or Facebook just happens to suggest the accounts of the people within the photo? Even before you type their names in? It’s almost like they have eyes right? Or how the ads featured in these apps seem to be extremely catered to what you had searched for a while ago? Be it from novels to games to make up items, the app seems to know? Wonder how Facebook knows how to translate different languages effortlessly? Well, it’s all due to artificial intelligence! AI and machine learning in social media enables apps to identify your interests and curate the feed according to it, AI also employs facial detection and verification. Apps like twitter also use AI to enable fraud detection and other hate speeches so that action can be taken against it. DeepText is another initiative by Facebook that enables the app to understand languages and texts better enabling accurate translation and help in removal of spam messages and show the relevant comments and messages in a post.
2. E-commerce
AI plays a huge role in E-commerce nowadays, from enabling search engines to understand our needs and show results accordingly. Amazon is one such app that employs this method helping their customers with well refined search results which is based on analysis of previous data based on the customers interests. E-commerce apps are also capable of showing us numerous recommendations, be it for electronics, clothes or other appliances that we may be looking to purchase, thus acting as our very own personal helping elves! Usage of AI in e-commerce also helps in flagging fake reviews and credit card frauds, identifying them helps in maintaining their relationship towards their customers as shoppers are more interested in buying items with a honest reasonable review. Ever seen how when one enters some websites there’s always a chat box with a person readily available to assist you in your shopping endeavors? Well, that’s yet another example of AI in e-commerce where natural language processing is used to make these conversations sound as human and helpful as possible.
3. Healthcare
Healthcare has truly benefited from the advent and integration of AI into the system with much more progress to be made. Currently, artificial intelligence plays a huge role in various aspects of healthcare like primary assessment of patients, in drug discovery, and even in surgical assistance. The use of AI in this field helps in early detection of diseases in patients and assess a person’s risk level for example in case of elderly falling hazards which can cause severe health issues to them in the later stage. Their assistance in surgical procedures can also ensure accuracy and precision. It can also improve the time taken for a diagnosis, and also enable better patient care management and improve the workflow in a hospital setting. Even devices like an iWatch or a fitbit can help one keep track of their heart rates, sleeping patterns and the calories burnt by them, all acting as data that can help in diagnosis or in management of personal health. AI in drug discovery can be cost effective as simulations can be run to see whether a drug can be repurposed or what are the most likely candidates for a potential drug against a disease.
4. Agriculture
One of the earliest sectors of jobs, agriculture is something human civilization cannot live without and needs to ramp up significantly to meet the growing demand of food supply. This sector has huge benefits due to its mingling with AI thus enabling them to plan according to weather, allowing monitoring of crop and soil for nutritional supplementation, allowing drones and other AI powered electronics in assisting farmers with farming like ploughing, spraying of pesticides, detecting of diseased crops and also providing tips and assistance for improve yield and in soil restoration. Use of technology in planting, harvesting and marketing of crops can lead to better yields as the cost of manual labor is cut down and higher efficiency and enhanced speed is provided.
5. Automobiles
Automation of automobiles is the next big thing besides in-car entertainment and GPS services. I mean, imagine a truly smart car with zero requirement for assistance? It’s the ideal dream of a current vehicular bliss, and Tesla’s fully autonomous cars are the best example for this. At the end of the day, AI in automobiles can not only improve the in-vehicle experience within cars, but also make their assembly and production easier and faster according to the pace of the demand for them. AI systems with cars can collect information from its surroundings through the help of radars, cameras, GPS and cloud services to enable accuracy in maneuvering the vehicle.
6. Virtual Assistance
Cue in Alexa, Cortana, Siri and Echo. Some of the most helpful assistants ever created besides Santa’s elves, they make the users lives easier, by helping us make appointments, maintain calendars, to do lists and other activities like booking a cab, ordering food and checking weather conditions and more. They do this by making use of Natural Language Processing through which they understand human communications and relays it to such AI’s to help execute a variety of tasks. They can also act as your very own in house librarian answering almost any questions you may want to ask. Yet another benefit of AI is in smart gadgets which are used by the majority nowadays like smart TVs, phones, watches, and even refrigerators! They are enabled to predict our requirements and proceed accordingly to help us lead smarter lives!
7. Gaming
AI has played a huge role in personalizing games to their users preferences, and also to make the non playing characters within a game more human and life-like in their decision making skills and adaptivity thus making the game more attractive to its players due to its unpredictability. AI can also play a huge deal in the upcoming fields of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality based games.
8. Navigation
AI is often relied on by regular commuters, be it through their own personal vehicles or with the usage of ride sharing apps like Uber, and even with food and other delivery logistics like Swiggy and Flipkart etc. to map out the potentially busy roads, estimated time of arrival and distances and the fares according to them.
Now that you know the myriad of benefits that can range from the use of artificial intelligence in different fields, you realize the present benefits of it and the future potential of this field in the grand scheme of human civilization’s evolution! Now you can introduce the same to your children and loved ones, thus enabling them to shape a better tomorrow for our world.
