What is AI?

What is artificial intelligence?

by Ivana Ružić

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Can computers or other smart devices think or solve problems?

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What is artificial intelligence?

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Do we use artificial intelligence?

How?

Where?

​Today we will learn what artificial intelligence (AI) is and

how do we use AI in everyday life.

​​Artificial intelligence (AI)

is the ability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn.

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It is also a field of study which tries to make computers "smart".

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John McCarthy came up with the name "artificial intelligence" in 1955.

Multiple Choice

Artificial intelligence (AI) is

• ability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn

• ability of a computer program to work

• ability of a machine to think

• ability of a computer program or a machine to learn

​​​Artificial intelligence (AI)

​In general use, the term "artificial intelligence" denotes a machine which mimics human cognition.

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Thought processes such as learning and problem solving can be done by computers, although not in the same way as humans do.

Multiple Choice

Artificial intelligence means

• a machine which guesses the correct answers

• a machine which creates human cognition

• a machine which mimics human cognition

​​​Artificial intelligence (AI)

​An ideal (perfect) intelligent machine is a flexible agent which perceives its environment and takes actions to maximize its chance of success at some goal.

As machines become increasingly capable, mental facilities once thought to require intelligence are removed from the definition.

For example, optical character recognition is no longer perceived as an exemplar of "artificial intelligence": it is just a routine technology.

Multiple Choice

An intelligent machine perceives its environment and takes actions to

• maximize its chance of success at some goal.

• do a routine technology.

​Artificial intelligence (AI)

​At present we use the term artificial intelligence for

• successfully understanding human speech

• competing at a high level in strategic game systems (such as Chess)

• self-driving cars and interpreting complex data

Some people also consider artificial intelligence a danger to humanity.

Multiple Choice

At present artificial intelligence does not entail:

• interpretation of human speech

• self-driving cars

• interpretion of complex data

• recognition of optical character

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Self-driving cars are a successful example of artificial intelligence. Have you seen or drove in self-driving cars? Can you name the most famous self-driving cars?

​​Artificial intelligence (AI)

​An extreme goal of AI research is to create computer programs that can learn, solve problems, and think logically.

In practice, however, most applications have picked on problems which computers can do well.

Searching data bases and doing calculations are things computers do better than people.

On the other hand, "perceiving its environment" in any real sense is way beyond present-day computing.

​​​Artificial intelligence (AI)

​Artificial intelligence involves many different fields like computer science, mathematics, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience and philosophy.

Researchers hope to create a "general artificial intelligence" which can solve many problems instead of focusing on just one.

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Researchers are also trying to create creative and emotional artificial intelligence which can possibly empathize or create art.

​​​Application of AI: ​Speech recognition

It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition, or speech-to-text their capability to process human speech into a written format. 

Many mobile devices incorporate speech recognition into their systems to conduct voice search—e.g. Siri—or provide more accessibility with texting. 

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​​​Application of AI: ​Customer service

Online chatbots are replacing human agents. They give answers to frequently asked questions about topics like shipping, cross-selling products or suggesting sizes for users and by doing so, changing the way we think about customer engagement across websites and social media platforms.

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​​​Application of AI: ​Computer vision

This AI technology enables computers and systems to bring out meaningful information from digital images, videos and other visual inputs and based on those inputs, it can take action.

Powered by neural networks, computer vision has applications within photo tagging in social media, radiology imaging in healthcare, and self-driving cars within the automotive industry.

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​​​Application of AI: ​Recommendation engines

By using past consumption behavior data, AI algorithms can help to discover data trends that can be used to develop more effective cross-selling strategies.

This is used to make relevant add-on recommendations to customers during the checkout process for online retailers.

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​​​Application of AI: ​Automated stock trading

Designed to optimize stock portfolios, AI-driven high-frequency trading platforms make thousands or even millions of trades per day without human intervention.

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Draw

You must have recognized the example of artificial intelligence that you use every day. Please draw it.

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Name the AI application you like the best?

​Advantages and Disadvantages of AI

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What is the biggest advantage of using AI?

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What do you think, what is the biggest disadvantage of using AI?

Poll

In your opinion, does artificial intelligence have more advantages and disadvantages?

• more advantages

• more disadvantages

• equally both

​AI is a computer system which thinks and operates objectively.

Human approach:

• Systems that think like humans

• Systems that act like humans

Ideal approach:

• Systems that think rationally

• Systems that act rationally