Artificial intelligence, defined as intelligence exhibited by machines, has many applications in today's society. More specifically, it is Weak AI, the form of AI where programs are developed to perform specific tasks that are being utilized for a wide range of activities, including medical diagnosis, electronic trading platforms, robot control, and remote sensing. AI has been used to develop and advance numerous fields and industries, including finance, healthcare, education, transportation, and more.
3. Smartphones
Well, if you are using a smartphone, you are
interacting with AI whether you know it or
not. From the obvious AI features such as the
built-in smart assistants to not so obvious
ones such as the portrait mode in the
camera, AI is impacting our lives every day.
For example, when you are using a smart
assistant, whether it’s Google Assistant,
Alexa, Siri, or Bixby, you more or less know
that these assistants are based on AI.
However, when we are using a feature such
as the portrait mode effect while shooting a
picture, we never consider that AI might be
behind that too.
4. Smartphones
Well, if you are using a smartphone, you are
interacting with AI whether you know it or
not. From the obvious AI features such as the
built-in smart assistants to not so obvious
ones such as the portrait mode in the
camera, AI is impacting our lives every day.
For example, when you are using a smart
assistant, whether it’s Google Assistant,
Alexa, Siri, or Bixby, you more or less know
that these assistants are based on AI.
However, when we are using a feature such
as the portrait mode effect while shooting a
picture, we never consider that AI might be
behind that too.
Have you ever thought how
Google Pixel 2 can capture such
great portrait shots with just a
single lens?
5. Smartphones
Well, if you are using a smartphone, you are
interacting with AI whether you know it or
not. From the obvious AI features such as the
built-in smart assistants to not so obvious
ones such as the portrait mode in the
camera, AI is impacting our lives every day.
For example, when you are using a smart
assistant, whether it’s Google Assistant,
Alexa, Siri, or Bixby, you more or less know
that these assistants are based on AI.
However, when we are using a feature such
as the portrait mode effect while shooting a
picture, we never consider that AI might be
behind that too.
The answer is artificial
intelligence.
6. Smart Cars and Drones
Talking about the AI, there is no better and
more prominent display of this technology
than what smart car and drone
manufacturers are doing with it. Just a few
years back, using a fully automatic car was a
dream, however, now companies like Tesla
have made so much progress that we already
have a fleet of semi-automatic cars on the
road. Companies like Amazon and Walmart
are heavily investing in drone delivery
programs and it will become a reality far
sooner than what you expect. If you think
that’s far-fetched, do note that militaries all
over the world are already using successful
drone programs.
8. Interesting Information
Did you know that all the Tesla cars
are connected and the things that
your car learns is shared across all
the cars?
9. Interesting Information
Did you know that all the Tesla cars
are connected and the things that
your car learns is shared across all
the cars?
10. Interesting Information
Did you know that all the Tesla cars
are connected and the things that
your car learns is shared across all
the cars?
That means, if you had to take an
unanticipated hard-left on a cross-road,
all the Tesla cars will know how to
maneuver that turn after they are
updated. There are already more than
50,000 Tesla cars running in the US alone
and that number is set to increase
exponentially now that Tesla has solved
its major production problems.
11. Social Media Feeds
If you are thinking that smart cars don’t
personally effect you as they are still not in your
country or city, well, how about something
which you use on a daily basis. Even if you are
living under a rock, there’s a high probability
that you are tweeting from underneath it. If
Twitter’s not your choice of poison, maybe it’s
Facebook or Instagram, or Snapchat or any of
the countless of social media apps out there.
Well, if you are using social media, most of your
decisions are being impacted by artificial
intelligence. From the feeds that you see in your
timeline to the notifications that you receive
from these apps, everything is curated by AI. AI
takes all your past behavior, web searches,
interactions, and everything else that you do
when you are on these websites and tailors the
experience just for you. The sole purpose of AI
here is to make the apps so addictive that you
come back to them again and again, and I am
ready to place a bet that AI is winning this war
against you.
12. Music and Media
Streaming Services
AI impacts our lives are the music and media
streaming services that we are using on a
daily basis. Whether you are using Spotify,
Netflix, or YouTube, AI is making the
decisions for you. I remember going down
the YouTube rabbit hole wasting countless
hours just watching the recommended
videos. That recommended videos section
has become so good at knowing my taste
that it’s scary. So, next time you are hitting
play on a recommended video on YouTube or
watching a recommended show on Netflix,
or listening to a pre-created playlist on
Spotify, or any other media and music
streaming service for that matter, remember
that AI is playing a big role in that.
13. Video Games
The integration started very small with the
use of AI to generate random levels that
people can play. how AI is infiltrating our
normal gaming industry. Any game that you
play has some sort of AI element to it. When
you are playing a game such as CS GO, PUBG
or Fortnite, you essentially start against a
couple of AI-powered bots and then move
to play against real players. Even when you
are playing a single person story mode game,
you are playing against AI bosses. If you are
playing racing games, you are racing against
AI bots. Probably the most interesting use of
AI we have seen in games is in the Middle
Earth series of games where your enemies
which are controlled by AI evolve based on
their interaction with you and other gaming
elements.
14. Navigation and Travel
Most of us travel from time to time and use
the navigation on almost a daily basis. Do
you know that whether you are using Google
or Apple Maps for navigating, or calling an
Uber, or booking a flight ticket, you are using
AI? Well, if you didn’t know that before, it’s
time that you open your eyes. Both Google
and Apple along with other navigation
services use artificial intelligence to interpret
hundreds of thousands of data point that
they receive to give you real-time traffic
data. When you are calling an Uber, both the
pricing and the car that matches your ride
request is decided by AI.
15. Banking and Finance
Did you know that the banking and finance
industry heavily relies on artificial
intelligence for things like customer service,
fraud protection, investment, and more? A
simple example is the automated emails that
you receive from banks whenever you do an
out of the ordinary transaction. Well, that’s
AI watching over your account and trying to
warn you of any fraud. AI is also being
trained to look at large samples of fraud data
and find a pattern so that you can be warned
before it happens to you. Also, when you
hitch a little snag and chat with bank’s
customer service, chances are that you are
chatting with an AI bot. Even the big players
in the finance industry use AI to analyze data
to find the best avenues to invest money so
they can get the most returns with the least
risk.
17. AI in e-commerce
Artificial Intelligence technology provides a
competitive edge to e-commerce businesses
and is becoming readily available to
companies of any size or budget. Leveraging
machine learning, AI software automatically
tags, organizes and visually searches content
by labeling features of the image or video. AI
is enabling shoppers to discover associated
products whether it is size, color, shape, or
even brand. The visual capabilities AI is
improving every year. By first obtaining visual
cues from the uploaded imagery, the
software can successfully assist the customer
in finding the product they desire. Many e-
commerce retailers are already becoming
more sophisticated with their AI capabilities,
and I only expect this to grow in the future.
18. AI to Improve
Workplace
Communication
Current business communication is overloaded
with content, channels, tools, and so-called
solutions, depriving individuals (and
companies) from hitting targets while also
harming work-life balance. Artificial Intelligence
will help businesses improve communication
internally and externally by enabling individual
personalization for each professional, allowing
for enhanced focus and increased productivity.
With such AI personalization, each individual
will be empowered thanks to an intelligent
virtual assistant, helping take care of mundane
or repeatable tasks, save time by understanding
your needs and goals, as well as recommend
next-best-action to take…as to utilize time
much more efficiently, without requiring any
extra effort. In the short to long run, business
processes will improve, innovation will grow as
employees will clear their tasks, and stress may
decrease.
19. AI in Healthcare
In the year ahead, and particularly in the next five
to ten years, artificial intelligence is going to have a
big impact on the healthcare industry and the ways
in which healthcare related companies utilize AI.
Here is a short note from Dr. Jeff Dunn, CEO of
Redivus Health. Redivus Health is a transformative
mobile app used by healthcare providers to
prevent medical errors by offering both clinical
decision support during critical medical events as
well as documenting those events electronically in
real time.
AI presents opportunities for our application to
take the data we have gathered from patients and
be able to clinically innovate to improve patient
outcomes to an even greater extent. AI improves
reliability, predictability, and consistency with
quality and patient safety. For us, AI, as applied to
software, is used as a decision augmentation tool,
but it should not have free reign without human
interaction and guidance. While it can’t replace
doctors and nurses, it can make them more
effective, efficient and happier on the job as it
takes the cognitive burden off our providers –
which increases confidence as well as reduces
stress and anxiety.
20. AI in Logistics and Supply
Chain
When combined with customer data and analytics,
physical artificial intelligence removes friction from the
customer experience. Artificial intelligence empowers
businesses to act on consumer data to drive
improvements throughout many areas of supply chain
operations. Mobile technology and the “Urbanization”
of things have made consumers hungry for AI.
Consumers demand shorter delivery waits from
retailers and retailers will expect the same from
manufacturers and distribution centers. Autonomous
trucks and robotic picking systems allow supply chains
to make fulfillment seven days a week. Within the next
five years, the shipping term “business days” will
become obsolete as consumers expect delivery on
nights and weekends.
21. Casino/Hotels/Integrated
Resorts
AI can help hotels/casinos discover customer
segments that they may not realize were there.
Which customers want to be near the pool,
which ones need three morning papers before
they can tackle the day? Armed with this kind of
information, hotels can understand what matters
the most to its guests at the individual level,
enabling them to anticipate their guest’s needs
before even the guests are aware of them.
Even more, hotels can understand key
characteristics of their most profitable customers
and recognize the next important ones when he
or she happens to login onto the hotel’s online
reservation system. The use of deep neural
networks and image classifiers can analyze and
parse images, which can enable hotel marketers
to monitor the images that provide the highest
booking conversion rate through each channel.
AI can also be used to compute dynamic clusters
of guests to create fluid segmentation in real-
time.
