30 Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Applications of Artificial Intelligence

The term Artificial Intelligence is not a new term. Artificial intelligence as opposed to natural intelligence has been seen as a display of cognitive skills by machines and systems which try to seek understanding of their environments and look for ways to solve problems and achieve goals.

In defining it further, researchers see Artificial Intelligence(AI) in terms of rationality. They debunk these artificial intelligence to be rational in terms of their approach to problem solving and understanding.

Features of Artificial Intelligence systems include Skills like Knowledge, Reasoning, Problem-solving, Perception, Learning, Planning and Manipulation, and physical movement. Artificial Intelligence acquires most of these skills from several data sources and intuitive algorithms that are built in programs.

In understanding artificial intelligence further, researchers and developers have classified artificial intelligence into two categories according to their features and functionalities as Narrow Artificial Intelligence Applications and Strong Artificial Intelligence Applications.

According to educba.com, “Narrow Artificial Intelligence Applications are designed to perform specified tasks in a reactive way.  Many successful artificial intelligence implementations like Voice recognition system, RPA, facial recognition, and data intelligence belong to this category, and these Apps undergo continuous improvements.”

On the other hand, Strong artificial intelligence systems are those that are able to execute a wide range of tasks in a proactive way. These systems use algorithms present to tackle and deal with unfamiliar tasks and adapt to environments. Examples of such artificial intelligence are Machine Learning, automatic process systems etc.

In today’s ever changing world, Artificial Intelligence has been seen to cover a whole lot of fields and areas of human endeavor. In this article, we will be looking at some of the ways in which artificial intelligence is being employed in different sectors.

Web Search Engines

A lot of web search engines have in recent times shown the importance of artificial intelligence and applied them to ensure optimal user experience. Amongst these applications of artificial intelligence you will find:

Artificial Intelligence helps in web search engines by analyzing and sorting for data that will be relevant to user’s serch querries.

Artificial Intelligence helps in organizing of all the different websites by through complex algorithms. They help classify and rank websites

The use of artificial intelligence as voice recognition applications is now in high demand as many of the popular search engines in the public domain now use these technologies.

Social Media

There are billions of users currently operating a good number of social media platforms which include facebook, twitter, instagram and the likes. All of these users have lots of informations that have to stored and accessed. artificial intelligence helps make this easier in the following ways:

All of the user information and profiles contained in social media platforms are stored, organized and managed by artificial intelligence technology.

artificial intelligence help in analyzing trends, hashtags and several other requirements according to users’ needs.

Education

In the learning space, artificial intelligence has been seen to cause a lot of positive change in reference to how people learn, technologies that aid learning and also aid teaching as well. Key notes within the educational sector in the use of artificial intelligence include:

In both conventional and open and distance styles of learning, artificial intelligence helps tutors in gradings, especially when there is an enormous amount of data involved.

There have been recent developments in Virtual learning which provides a basis for people to learn through the aid of artificial intelligence. This form of learning is very important as it can be accessed anytime and from anywhere. The technology involved in this kind of learning is still in the development stage.

HealthCare

One of the fields that equally applies artificial intelligence is the healthcare sector. Through the use of artificial intelligence, certain processes can now be carried out faster and even automatically. Some of these functions of artificial intelligence within the healthcare sector include:

Helping doctors to carry out diagnosis through clinical decision support system that uses data mining

They can even determine when patient cases are worsening and thus providing first aid solutions before hospitalization

artificial intelligence have been used to carry out repetitive jobs in surgery and patient care

artificial intelligence equally helps in simulating and analyzing samples of materials in terms of composition in the process of making drugs

Gaming

The gaming world has been one of the most beneficiaries of artificial intelligence technologies. artificial intelligence in gaming has been seen to give users of gaming softwares and designers of gaming softwares a variety of advantages.

artificial intelligence is used in gaming to create opponents that users can play against especially in games like chess and scrabble. The type of application of artificial intelligence helps is used in creating opponents that can choose out of a large number of possible choices

artificial intelligence in gaming also assumes the role of certain characters. In more advanced gaming, artificial intelligence/ML (Machine Learning) are used to create a whole new level of gaming experience for users.

Travel and Transportation

The applications of artificial intelligence in the travel sector has made huge impacts in terms of how people travel. Better decisions can be made in regards to travel and transport in through the help of artificial intelligence in the following ways:

artificial intelligence application in travel and transportation comes as suggestions as to which hotels, flights and alternative routes to take whenever travel decision is to be made by customers.

According to javapoint.com, it was noted that “travel industries are using artificial intelligence-powered chatbots which can make human-like interaction with customers for better and fast response.”

The application of artificial intelligence in the transportation industry is rapidly improving. Through the use of artificial intelligence technology, certain things are now and will be possible in the future transportation:

Producers of Automobiles are now using artificial intelligence technology as intelligent virtual assistants. An example is Tesla that has introduced their TeslaBot

There are currently car manufacturers who are working on self-driven cars. Some of these cars are already in circulation. These cars promote safety as they ensure compliance with all safety measures

In aircrafts, advanced cruise controls enable pilots to relax while the artificial intelligence systems control the flights at cruise altitude

Manufacturing

In manufacturing, robots have been seen to be a replacement for their human counterparts. Robots carry out their functions efficiently and tirelessly. Because they follow programs, the probability of errors is way less than 1%. This same feature of them being routine in nature, has made certain groups of developers to classify some of those robots as not meeting the requirements of being artificial intelligence.

Some of the specific applications of artificial intelligence technology in manufacturing include:

Robots that use artificial intelligence technology have been employed to be replacements for people especially in non-ergonomic conditions

Using artificial intelligence technologies, manufacturing companies have been seen to set-up predictive smart maintenance systems that ensure there is a reduction in production loss

In areas of quality assessment, artificial intelligence has been seen to provide early alert on probably quality issues

Entertainment

One field that artificial intelligence has gained prominence but much attention has not been paid to is in entertainment. artificial intelligence in entertainment is evident in certain applications that we use in our daily lives. Examples of these applications that use artificial intelligence are:

Netflix and amazon; with the aid of artificial intelligence/ML, these applications provide recommendations based on past search histories and activities

Finance and Commerce

In e-commerce, artificial intelligence is breaking frontiers by making buying a more enjoyable experience for online shoppers. Through recommendation systems, customers get exposed to associated brands, products and others that would have been missed on any normal day

According to javatpoint.com, “artificial intelligence and finance industries are the best matches for each other. The finance industry is implementing automation, chatbot, adaptive intelligence, algorithm trading, and machine learning into financial processes.”

artificial intelligence assists financial institutions in measuring the credit-worthiness of clients and risk-free loan disbursement by pulling data from social media and a host of other sources.

Astronomy and Navigation

In terms of interstellar studies artificial intelligence has made  a lot of contributions which include:

Artificial Intelligence helps astronomy capture a lot of data like new stars, new extraterrestial planets and even dark matter.  It also helps in analyzing the enornous amount of data that come with understanding astronomy.

Artificial intelligence helps in navigation by using data from GPS (Global Positioning System) and triangulating to get positions in real time.

In traffic control, Artificial intelligence has been seen to make improvements in terms of real-time traffic control and adjustments to programmes to reduce congestion and wait-time.

Security

This is another area where artificial intelligence has made great impacts. The advances in this sector include:

Facial recognition systems; the use of artificial intelligence in this area allows quick facial recognition check to be carried out. The check is carried out by capturing the face of individuals, and running them across a database to check and match their identities

With the current rise in cyber attacks, advanced artificial intelligence application has been one way in which threats and bugs can and have been able to fight off these threats.

It is clear that the use of Artificial intelligence has perversed nearly every area of human endeavor and it still continues to grow at a more rapid pace. The impossibilities of yesterday have been reduced through the use of these technologies.