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AI- THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD’S MODERN INVENTIONS

With the invention of the electronic stored • How AI will add value in the years to come?
program computers around 1950’s, the conditions • In the year’s to come, with the intervention
for research in artificial intelligence (AI) were laid. of AI, technological reach will increase, thus
Norbert Wiener was the first to theorize that all bridging the gap between the rich and the
intelligent behaviour was a result of the feedback poor.
mechanism, a mechanism that could be possibly • Technology would also help in facilitating the
be simulated by machines. This was followed by reach of health services to remote areas.
the development of the first AI program by Newell
and Simon in the year 1955. • Companies that would adopt AI in different
ways, are expected to increase their
Today, AI is integral to our lives just like physics. competitiveness by 2.3 times by the year 2021.
Theoretical AI says that Intelligence (natural or • Apps suggesting means to improve our
artificial) is of three types: lifestyles (including monitoring our eating and
1. Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI): a stream of living patterns) will become integral for us.
AI which performs a single task with smartness.
It is considered to be a basic concept of AI. Eg: • Bots designed for art integration have already
Speech Recognition (only recognize speech); become a reality.
Voice Assistants i.e. Cortana, Alexa (only act “Herbert Televox”, was the first ever humanoid
upon voice commands which perform a certain robot, built by Ron Wensley in the year 1927. The
action) bot was designed to lift the receiver to accept a
2. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): a general- telephone call and control simple processes.
purpose area of intelligence. Its smartness/ Today we have robots like Atlas, developed by
efficiency could be applied to do various Boston Dynamics. Atlas is an extremely mobile bot
tasks as well as learn and improve itself. It is and has been designed with the ability to balance
comparatively as intelligent as the human while performing tasks such as carrying items
brain. Eg: AlphaGo though only able to play Go, even when it is pushed, something that could only
but its intelligence could be applied in various be imagined. Kengoro, the robot has been made
other fields. as similar to humans as the current technology
3. Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI): an aspect allows.
of intelligence which is more powerful and Sophia personifies our dreams for the future of AI.
sophisticated than a human intelligence. Super As a unique combination of science, engineering,
intelligence can surpass human intelligence, and artistry, Sophia is simultaneously a human-
as it can think about abstractions which might crafted science fiction character depicting the
be beyond human comprehension. future of AI and robotics, and a platform for
Today developments in AI have reached to a advanced robotics and AI research.
stage when it has seamlessly integrated with our It is just the beginning of the AI era and a lot more
household items. Optical character recognition, are yet to be invented!!!
handwriting recognition, speech/face recognition, Lakshay Vedik, XII-A
computer vision, virtual reality and image
processing, photo/video manipulation, diagnosis
(medical), etc have become inseparable from our
lives.
• Most e-commerce platforms are focusing
in areas such as conversational commerce,
artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality
(VR)/augmented reality (AR) and analytics
technologies.
• The arrival of artificial intelligence onto factory
floors is timely as experienced workers reach
retirement age.

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