What is AI?
Artificial Intelligence (AI for short) is a technology that simulates human intelligence. It can simulate human thinking and behavior through computer programs to achieve functions such as autonomous learning, reasoning, judgment, and decision-making. When you see news about artificial intelligence (AI), your first thought is that it has nothing to do with you, but is that true? Many people believe that AI applications will only be of interest to major technological companies and will have little impact on their daily lives. However, artificial intelligence will eventually make its way into every area of people’s lives. It is simply a matter of time before we use AI applications in our everyday lives.
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence technology has brought about considerable upheavals and opportunities for our society. Proper use of AI applications has grown increasingly important. This article will look at how to use artificial intelligence technology effectively so that AI applications can contribute positively to human well-being and progress.
AI applications in our daily life
Face ID to unlock your phone
A lot of people have the tendency of looking at their mobile phones first thing in the morning. You should be aware that the majority of mobile phones in use today are smartphones, hence biometric technology, such as face recognition, is utilized to unlock such devices. In other words, everyone uses AI applications, such as face recognition technology, to enable this feature on a daily basis. Apple’s FaceID, for example, uses 3D technology to illuminate your face and place 30,000 invisible infrared dots on it to gather facial picture data. It then employs a machine learning algorithm to compare the current face scan to what the phone has saved to determine whether the person attempting to unlock the phone is the original user.
Social media
What is the next step after you have unlocked your phone? The majority of individuals will check their social media accounts daily, including platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, to acquire the most up-to-date information. AI applications are not only working behind the scenes to allow you to see personalized content in your feed in your daily life (by learning what types of posts resonate with you based on your past history), but they can also figure out recommendations from friends, identify and filter fake news, and prevent cyberbullying using machine learning methods.
Sending messages
Users have many ways to transmit messages. The more formal one is email. For example, people need to send an email almost every day in their life and work. During the process, there will often be some typos, so at this time you need to activate tools such as grammar check and spell check to help check for writing errors in the email. These tools use AI applications and natural language processing. In addition, spam filtering also relies on AI technology, and more importantly, anti-virus software also utilizes machine learning to protect your email account.
Voice Assistant
Most people are familiar with the voice assistant function because it is embedded into today’s devices. When you speak to your voice assistant, the AI technology understands you. For example, when you ask Siri for time, weather, location, and, of course, rapid communication (calling and texting), Siri is able to answer you. These systems, ranging from Siri and Alexa to Google Home and Cortana, use natural language processing and AI applications to provide responses to you.
Recommender system by Netflix or Amazon
When you settle down at home to unwind for the day, some of you may switch on Netflix or go online shopping at Amazon. It just seems that the website always know what you want to watch, or what items you want to buy. This is due to the AI applications of a recommender system. Your last watched film is perhaps Oppenheimer, a thriller/action film. Netflix will most probably recommend you to watch “Dunkirk”, “The Theory of Everything”, “The Manhattan Project” – All related to the themes of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This AI application learns your preferences and viewing/purchase history, then analyzes the items you like and makes recommendations.
In summary, the advancement of artificial intelligence technology has fundamentally altered the way people live and work, offering us numerous benefits while also posing some possible threats and concerns. We need to seriously consider and discuss how to maximize human interests while minimizing hazards in the development of artificial intelligence technologies.
Downsides of artificial intelligence
The advancement of artificial intelligence technologies may result in the loss of certain traditional jobs. For example, automated production lines and intelligent robots may replace some traditional manufacturing jobs, while autonomous driving technology may replace some traditional transportation drivers.
The advancement of artificial intelligence technologies may raise some privacy and security concerns. Artificial intelligence, for example, can learn about personal privacy by analyzing enormous volumes of data. At the same time, it may be targeted and abused by hackers, resulting in personal privacy and security concerns.
Some of the top universities that offer Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University’s artificial intelligence laboratory is one of the largest artificial intelligence research centers in the world. The degree has its pathway divided into three parts:
The first part consists of basic computer science courses, such as mathematics and science, technology in society, and engineering foundations. The second part consist of elective courses, covering artificial intelligence, theory, systems, and man-machine. Interaction, graphics, information, biological computing and other fields are training in deep learning. The third part consists of research project, whereby students can choose to gradually start a team or conduct targeted research.
MIT is one of the most famous science and engineering colleges in the world, cultivating a large number of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs. The Schwarzman School of Computing is a strategic initiative in computing and artificial intelligence at MIT that explores interdisciplinary research in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, and related fields.
Throughout the undergraduate period, laboratory subjects, teamwork, independent projects and research enable students to use the principles and techniques of analysis, design and experimentation
University of California, Berkeley
Among the ChatGPT team, 10 developers graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, second only to Stanford University in number. The school has several world-class artificial intelligence research institutions and they include: UCB Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, UCB Information and Systems Science Laboratory, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, CITRIS Humans and Robots. The University of California, Berkeley does not have an independent undergraduate major in artificial intelligence. Instead, it has established an undergraduate research course in artificial intelligence in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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