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Salman Shaikh
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What is Ai and how does it work?

Artificial intelligence is everywhere and it is already creating a huge impact on our lives. Have you ever taken into consideration how your virtual assistant in the form of Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant understands what you say and provides potential answers for your queries? And how our phones autocompleting texts for us. Youtube recommends videos to watch, games beating us at video games, A self-driving car, It’s all due to artificial intelligence.  AI already has a quite big effect on all of our lives. So people, understandably, have a few polarized feelings about it. Some of us consider that AI will extrude the world in positive approaches, it could quit car accidents because we have self-driving cars, or it could give the aged great, personalized care. Others fear that AI will cause constant surveillance by Big Brother authorities. Some say that it will take all our jobs.

What is A.i (artificial intelligence)?

AI stands for Artificial Intelligence in its simplest form, refers to a simulation of human intelligence in machines that accomplish duties by mimicking human intelligence, using strategies of understanding, analyzing, and may iteratively enhance itself based on the data they collect.

How does A.I. Work?

Artificial intelligence is approximate’ computers that may learn complex tasks’ not about people pretending they’re smart. In reality, A.I. systems work by mimicking the way that neurons are connected in our own brains,  creating ‘Artificial Neurons’, that aren’t individually that smart,  however, that work together in big networks to carry out complicated tasks. In this way, it started thinking by itself without the assistance of humans and started combat with humans. For example, lately, google deep mind-developed alpha go ai world’s hardest game go’s grandmasters had been defeated by ai. How did this happen? Well, Alpha Go performed itself some thousands and thousands of times and have become an expert, and now? Now no human can defeat it. It has started writing articles, poems, and composing songs as well.

advantages and disadvantages of artificial intelligence?

Advantages:

• AI might have a low mistakes rate compared to people if coded properly. They might have incredible precision, accuracy, and speed.

• They won’t be affected by hostile environments, therefore able to complete risky tasks, explore in space, and endure issues that would injure or kill us. This can mean mining and digging fuels that would otherwise be hostile for humans.

• Replace humans in repetitive, tedious tasks and in lots of laborious places of work.

• Predict what a user will type, ask, search, and do. They can act as assistants.

• Can detect fraud in card-based systems, and possibly different systems in the future.

• Organized and managed records.

• They can think logically without emotions, making rational choices with fewer or no mistakes.

• Can assess people. This may be for medical purposes, such as health risks and emotional state.

• They do not need to sleep, rest, take breaks, or get entertained, as they do not lose interest or are tired.

Disadvantages:

• Can cost money and time to build, rebuild, and repair. A robotic repair can occur to lessen time and humans need to fix it, however, that’ll cost extra money and resources.

• It’s questionable: is it ethically and morally accurate to have androids, human-like robots, or recreate intelligence, a gift of nature that should not be recreated? This is a discussion about AI that’s popular nowadays.

• Storage is expansive, however, access and retrieval won’t cause connections in memory in addition to humans could.

• They can learn and get better with tasks if coded to, however it is questionable as to if this can ever turn out to be as good as humans can do such.

•  can cause severe unemployment, except if people can fix the unemployment with jobs AI can not do or severely extrude the government to communism.

As seen partially with smartphones and other generations already, humans can become too dependent on AI and lose their mental capacities. Machines can easily cause destruction if put in the wrong hands. That is a fear of many humans.

The difference between Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

We understand what Ai is machine learning is a technique to achieve Ai and deep learning in turn is a subset of machine learning provides a machine with the functionality to learn from data and experience thru algorithms deep learning does this learning thru ways inspired by the human brain this means through deep learning data and patterns may be better perceived.

Future of Artificial Intelligence

The future of artificial intelligence is more fascinating than ever. People have indulged in this debate for years now. Some say robots are the future and they may replicate humans completely. Another opinion is a human dependency on this sector will grow manifold. However, one thing is for sure, artificial intelligence is progressing faster than ever, and no one is aware of what might come next. Ray Kurzweil a famous futurist predicts that by the year 2045 we would have robots as smart as humans this is called the point of singularity well that’s not all in fact Elon Musk predicts that the human mind and body might be enhanced by ai implants which would make us partly cyborgs.

Conclusion

Artificial intelligence is not going to make human intelligence obsolete, however, it will make things less complicated for everyone involved from big businesses to a single consumer. Artificial intelligence hugely reduces the possibility of manual errors and leverages data on making the right decisions leaving no room for doubt or mistakes.

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