Artificial Intelligence

Katelyn Miller
Science Blog
Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence is the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans. Most machines with artificial intelligence are programmed to include speech recognition, learning, planning, and problem solving. Knowledge engineering is a core part in AI research. “Machines can often act and react like humans only if they have abundant information relating to the world. Artificial intelligence must have access to objects, categories, properties and relations between all of them to implement knowledge engineering. Initiating common sense, reasoning and problem-solving power in machines is a difficult and tedious task”.   

AI makes it possible for machines to learn from experience, adjust to new inputs, and perform human like tasks. Most AI examples that you hear about today – from chess-playing computers to self-driving cars – rely heavily on deep learning and natural language processing. Using these technologies, computers can be trained to accomplish specific tasks by processing large amounts of data and recognizing patterns in the data.  While science fiction often portrays AI as robots with human-like characteristics, AI can encompass anything from Google’s search algorithms to IBM’s Watson to autonomous weapons.

“Artificial intelligence today is properly known as narrow AI (or weak AI), in that it is designed to perform a narrow task (e.g. only facial recognition or only internet searches or only driving a car). However, the long-term goal of many researchers is to create general AI (AGI or strong AI). While narrow AI may outperform humans at whatever its specific task is, like playing chess or solving equations, AGI would outperform humans at nearly every cognitive task”.

The amount of money going into research for AI is exceeding 30 billion dollars per year. With big players like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple investing the most, the race is on for the future of AI. AI helps out a lot in the medical field. Even though it is helpful, it will never actually replace the human touch in medicine. I think that there is only so much that AI can accomplish because humans will always be able to control it and don’t want robots to literally take over.


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