Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience.
Applications of AI
- Astronomy
Artificial Intelligence can be very useful to solve complex universe problems. AI technology can be helpful for understanding the universe such as how it works, origin.
- Healthcare
AI can help doctors with diagnoses and can inform when patients are worsening so that medical help can reach to the patient before hospitalization.
- Gaming
The AI machines can play strategy games like chess, where the machine needs to think of a large number of possible places.
- Finance
The finance industry is implementing automation, chatbot, adaptive intelligence, algorithm trading, and machine learning into financial processes.
- Data Security
AI can be used to make the data more safe and secure. Some examples such as AEG bot, AI2 platform are used to determine software bugs and cyber-attacks in a better way.
- Travel
AI is capable of doing various travel related works such as from making travel arrangements to suggesting the hotels, flights, and best routes to the customers.
- E-Commerce
AI is helping shoppers to discover associated products with recommended size, color, or even brand.
Threats of AI
- Autonomous Weapons
. AI programmed to do something dangerous, as is the case with autonomous weapons programmed to kill, is one way AI can pose risks.
. Once deployed, they will likely be difficult to dismantle or combat.
- Social Manipulation
. Social media through its autonomous-powered algorithms is very effective at target marketing.
. By spreading propaganda to individuals identified through algorithms and personal data, AI can target them and spread whatever information they like, in whatever format they will find most convincing—fact or fiction.
- Invasion of Privacy
. It is now possible to track and analyze an individual’s every move online as well as when they are going about their daily business.
. This is the type of information that is going to power China’s social credit system that is expected to give every one of its 1.4 billion citizens a personal score based on how they behave.
- Misalignment Between Our Goals and the Machine’s
. If we aren’t clear with the goals we set for AI machines, it could be dangerous if a machine isn’t armed with the same goals we have.
- Discrimination
. Since machines can collect, track and analyze so much about a person, it’s very possible for those machines to use that information against the person.
