What is Artificial Intelligence?
Many aspects of our lives are impacted by artificial intelligence, whether it's how we get recommendations for new music, translate text into another language, or operate vehicles. To increase their competitiveness and develop new products for their customers, businesses must adopt and adapt current AI systems. But what is artificial intelligence, the system working behind the scenes?
The first thing that comes to many people's minds when they hear the term artificial intelligence is typically robots. That is because high-profile movies and books frequently feature human-like machines that cause havoc on Earth. However, the opposite is true.
An image from A3 displaying a concept for new robotic automation in factories.
When asked the question, “What do you know about artificial intelligence” many mentioned a video called "surgery on a grape" by the Youtube channel Cheddar. In their article, Jake Frankenfield and Gorden Scott said possibilities with artificial intelligence have unimaginable uses.
Businesses can use the technology in a wide range of industries and sectors. For example, AI is being tested and used in the healthcare sector to administer medication dosages, disperse various treatments suited to individual patients, and support surgical procedures in the operating room. The precision of this robot has shown new horizons for artificial intelligence. In the medical field, it has even been seen that artificial intelligence can detect cancer in x-rays. It has gone so far that many hospitals and technical programs are attempting to create a robot to replicate a medical assistant for real, everyday use.
A medical assistant prototype by UL Solutions.
Many technology professionals have different views on this topic. Some think that artificial intelligence has yet to be developed. In contrast, others believe that although we have yet to reach the peak of artificial intelligence, we are now on a drastically fast-growing slope. Jake Frankenfield and Gorden Scott composed a text explaining artificial intelligence (paraphrased); artificial intelligence is based on the idea that human intelligence can be described in a way that makes it simple for a machine to mimic it and carry out tasks of any complexity. Artificial intelligence aims to mimic cognitive processes in humans.
Regarding concretely defining activities like learning, reasoning, and perception, researchers and developers in the field are making surprisingly quick progress. Some people think inventors can soon create systems that are better than humans are currently capable of learning or understanding. Others, however, continue to hold this view because all cognitive processes involve value judgments influenced by human experience.
When interviewed, Claude Schanet, Deputy Chair of EU Space Programme Security and Luxembourg Government, stated, "When it comes to artificial intelligence, I think of the Turing test. Although, I also do not find it to be the way to define artificial intelligence." He thinks that for a system to be declared artificially intelligent, it must fit specific standards. These standards are "being able to depict and or identify the difference between two photos based on purely past standards and information." For example, if you were to show an artificially intelligent system, it would be able to know the difference between a cat and a dog just by having a intelligent system within its programming. Claude says this innovative system works by "Having an idea of what makes sense or does not as a human has." A specific example is when a child can identify their mother out of 5 women. Therefore, they adapt and can decide based on what they already know, even if the information is incomplete.
What is artificial intelligence? An article by Investopedia states, "Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence in devices designed to behave and think like humans. The phrase can also refer to any machine that demonstrates characteristics of the human mind, like learning and problem-solving." They explain that the ability to reason and take actions with the best chance of achieving a specific goal is the ideal quality of artificial intelligence. Therefore artificial intelligence would have an ethical-like mindset in which they can make the best decisions with a set of rules based on similar problems.
“Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence in devices that have been designed to behave and think like humans.”
An article by Investopedia.
Ph. D. student from ETH, a university in Switzerland, Manish Prajapat, said, "Artificial intelligence is not something that has eyes or ears, but it can have the same intelligence as us humans. Maybe not as detailed, but they could identify right from wrong by experience."
In the survey, many students confused machine learning with artificial intelligence. For example, Manish told us, "Machine learning is something that learns a difference from one thing to another after thousands of images are shared. While artificial intelligence could make an educated guess and normally get it correct." Claude added when asked the same question, "Machine learning is an example of something that learns by experience and can only verify something or how to solve a problem with its programming. In comparison, artificial intelligence would learn from experience and be able to know things they were not programmed to know. Such as, when you are a baby, you can know a cat from a dog. It is just how your brain works."
Artificial intelligence, or what people claim to be artificial intelligence, has reduced the manual effort involved in many jobs. The rise of technological systems like artificial intelligence has been one of the most significant technological breakthroughs in recent years. Many would consider artificial intelligence being on the brink of invention. Others do not; time will tell.
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