Examples and impact of AI

See [[Week 1 - Introduction]] or the [[Main AI Page]] Also see the [[Master of Philosophy - Main Page]]

• For a videogame designer, AI means writing the code that affects how bots play, and how the environment reacts to the player.

• For a screenwriter, AI means a character that acts like a human, with some trope of computer features mixed in.

• For a data scientist, AI is a way of exploring and classifying data to meet specific goals.

• Chatbots powered by natural language processing capabilities, are being used in healthcare to question patients and run basic diagnoses like real doctors.

• In education, they are providing students with easy to learn conversational interfaces and on-demand online tutors.

• Customer service chatbots are improving customer experience by resolving queries on the spot and freeing up agents time for conversations that add value.

• AI-powered advances in speech-to-text technology have made real time transcription a reality.

• Advances in speech synthesis are the reason companies are using AI-powered voice to enhance customer experience, and give their brand its unique voice.

• In the field of medicine, it's helping patients with Lou Gehrig's disease, for example, to regain their real voice in place of using a computerized voice.

• Computer vision is one of the reasons why cars can steer their way on streets and highways and avoid hitting obstacles.

• Computer vision algorithms detect facial features and images and compare them with databases of face profiles.

• AI is what allows

  • consumer devices to authenticate the identities of their owners through facial recognition,
  • social media apps to detect and tag users, and
  • law enforcement agencies to identify criminals in video feeds.

• AI can aid in detecting cancerous moles in skin images or finding symptoms in x-ray and MRI scan

• There's AI

  • in our Netflix queue,
  • our navigation apps,
  • keeping spam out of our inboxes and
  • reminding us of important events

• AI is working behind the scenes

  • monitoring our investments,
  • detecting fraudulent transactions,
  • identifying credit card fraud, and
  • preventing financial crimes.

• AI is impacting healthcare in significant ways, by

  • helping doctors arrive at more accurate preliminary diagnoses,
  • reading medical imaging,
  • finding appropriate clinical trials for patients, and
  • making operational processes less expensive.

• AI has the potential to

  • access enormous amounts of information,
  • imitate humans,
  • even specific humans,
  • make life-changing recommendations about health and finances, and even
  • correlate data that may invade privacy.

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