Artificial Intelligence: A new vision for Mankind

Artificial Intelligence is something that is going to redefine the world of information in the near future. But have we ever tried to figure out, what is the measure of this redefinition or upto what extent?

Let’s dive deep inside the meaning of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is “to make machines mimic cognitive functions that humans associate with human mind i.e to make machines intelligent so that they can act intelligently!”, again the question rises how much intelligent? How can one judge the intelligence? Are these systems as intelligent as humans? If the computers can somehow solve real-world problems by improving on their own from the past experiences, they would be called “Intelligent”. Thus, the AI systems are more generic about having the ability to “think” and are more flexible. Intelligence, as we know, is the ability to acquire and apply the knowledge. Knowledge is the information acquired through experience. Experience is the knowledge gained through training. Summing the terms up, we get Artificial Intelligence as the “copy of something natural ‘WHO’ is capable of acquiring and applying the information it has gained through exposure.” A thin hairline difference in Human and Artificial Intelligence is machines need to be programmed to think intelligently which is indirectly done by humans.

What is the driving force of AI? What is the essence of AI? Is this a magic? A drastic change that the supreme has gifted humans… Its the beauty of Mathematics. Before being an AI expert we should understand the mathematics behind all these technological things. Nowadays, it has been noticed that students learn Computer Sciences and have least interest towards mathematics.They don’t even try to figure out the objectives behind learning that. The fact that, this world is operating on a concept called ‘Probability’. Whatever we do is nothing but increasing or decreasing our chances of success and failure. Probability is one of the important theories that govern AI. The other concepts include Linear Algebra, Calculus and Statistics. These concepts would be interesting if we try to connect them with base of Artificial Intelligence. 

The need for AI is to create expert systems which exhibit intelligent behavior with the capability to learn, demonstrate, explain and advice its users and to  help machines find solutions to complex problems like humans do and applying them as algorithms in a computer-friendly manner. Why is AI important to learn? AI automates repetitive learning and discovery through data. Instead of automating manual tasks, AI performs frequent, high-volume, computerized tasks reliably and without fatigue. AI adds intelligence to existing products. In most cases, AI will not be sold as an individual application. Rather, products you already use will be improved with AI capabilities. AI adapts through progressive learning algorithms to let the data do the programming. AI finds structure and regularities in data so that the algorithm acquires a skill: The algorithm becomes a classifier or a predictor. AI analyzes more and deeper data using neural networks that have many hidden layers. AI achieves incredible accuracy through deep neural networks – which was previously impossible. AI gets the most out of data. When algorithms are self-learning, the data itself can become intellectual property. The answers are in the data; you just have to apply AI to get them out.

Lastly talking about the applications of AI. AI is used in Gaming, Expert Systems, Natural Language Processing, Vision Systems, Speech Recognition, Intelligent Robots etc. Machine Learning, a field of study that gives computers the capability to learn based on experiences i.e.  without being explicitly programmed is a subset of  AI.

Based on the above facts, the perception that Artificial Intelligence will rule humans is definitely a myth. Surely, it has given some opportunities for humans to think differently and make use of this technology for their own benefits.

I urge everyone to be a part of this significant change in the IT Industry. Happy Learning!

                                                                                                                 - Mr. Unmesh Wadekar