Main Concepts

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that is dedicated to solving cognitive problems that would normally be associated with human intelligence, such as learning, recognition and image creation.
  • AI systems designed to mimic human intelligence.

AI objective

The goal of AI is to create a system that learns on its own and is able to extract meaning from raw data.

Key Aspects

  • In addition to responding coherently when asked questions, AI can create original content such as text and images.
  • AI can be used to solve complex problems, given its ability to process large amounts of data.
  • AI can also perform repetitive and monotonous tasks.
  • AI can find patterns in data and predict trends.

AI elements

Artificial Intelligence involves the following elements and processes:

  • A Training Dataset
  • The process of training an AI Model from the Dataset
  • A data scientist who trains the model
  • The user who uses the previously trained model to obtain some response from it.

IA Subdisciplines

Example

  • A basic example of an AI model could be a classification algorithm, which contains a collection of fruit images classified according to the corresponding fruit, the model was previously trained with a large number of images of different fruits.
  • A user can enter a new image of a fruit, and the model would be able to classify what type of fruit it is, without having had that exact image before.

Applications

Areas of application of AI:

  • Medical Industry: AI can read medical images such as X-rays to make diagnoses
  • Pandemic Prediction: Agencies such as the Center for Disease Control, CDC, use AI to predict pandemics and outbreaks around the world and dispatch necessary medical personnel and resources.
  • Manufacturing Industry: Using AI with computer vision to monitor assembly lines to maintain product quality, and sensor data to predict when equipment needs maintenance.
  • Customer service: Chat solutions and search systems using AI for language recognition
  • Retail: Using AI to use customer purchase history to make product recommendations.
  • Image recognition
  • Speech-to-text conversion
  • Machine learning

Reflection Questions

  • What is human intelligence?
  • What is a cognitive problems?