When people talk about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to revolutionize the game they fail to tell you that AI is as old as computers, well almost. AI is as old as the first computer program way back in 1940 when programmer Ada Lovelace tried to write a program to do something which is normally done by people and that is the simple definition of AI. Garry Kasparov, the chess Grand Master who was defeated by
IBM’s Deep Blue Computer in the 90’s. Garry's reaction to the defeat was that he realized that
he would have performed much better if he had access to the same chess
programs that Deep Blue had. Deep Blue had huge storage and was fed thousands of detailed chess game moves data' from which it was able to anticipate opponents next moves and plan its moves and coupled with it's CPU computing power Garry was no match to him!
Over the years as computers and related technologies have evolved we see evolution in AI capabilities.When you buy a laptop from Amazon and amazon web-page suggests relevant laptop accessories for your product that's actually a low level AI program that has processed your purchase data in real time to smartly predict what accessories you may require. Few others examples of AI implementations that you might already be using are Apples Siri, Google's Assistant and Now, Microsoft Cortana and IBM's Watson. We will discuss narrow AI & general AI , strong AI & weak AI at a later stage and for the moment you should know that these are just advanced concepts in AI implementation.
So why is there sudden surge in implementation of AI over last 4/5 years? As the info-graphic by digitalintelligencetoday.com shows research on developing smart programs has been going on since 1950 and we have seen some working examples over the years. Over last 10 yrs we have seen cost of storage decreasing drastically, the cost of internet decreasing and internet speeds are improving. We have seen technologies and software like Big Data, Social Media, Mobiles, Sensors, Cloud, Hadoop are enabling creation & consumption of huge amount of data. This huge amount of data created every second and the technologies that make it possible to store and process the huge data are helping AI evolve and become smarter. Don't let some hi-fi techie tell you that AI is a new born and its going to make your job absolute. Like any other successful technology AI is being used for few years and it will help drive data driven intelligent automation to make our lives simpler. Way back computers were supposed to take away the job of millions of workers and though some jobs became obsolete, computers actually created many more new jobs and improved & simplified the way we do business. Today no one seems to blame computers for rendering them job less and in few years people will accept AI (which is nothing but a smarter computer program) as an invisible entity that is integral part of their life.
My favorite AI info-graphic is the one below and it is owned / created by www.digitalintelligencetoday.com
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Over the years as computers and related technologies have evolved we see evolution in AI capabilities.When you buy a laptop from Amazon and amazon web-page suggests relevant laptop accessories for your product that's actually a low level AI program that has processed your purchase data in real time to smartly predict what accessories you may require. Few others examples of AI implementations that you might already be using are Apples Siri, Google's Assistant and Now, Microsoft Cortana and IBM's Watson. We will discuss narrow AI & general AI , strong AI & weak AI at a later stage and for the moment you should know that these are just advanced concepts in AI implementation.
So why is there sudden surge in implementation of AI over last 4/5 years? As the info-graphic by digitalintelligencetoday.com shows research on developing smart programs has been going on since 1950 and we have seen some working examples over the years. Over last 10 yrs we have seen cost of storage decreasing drastically, the cost of internet decreasing and internet speeds are improving. We have seen technologies and software like Big Data, Social Media, Mobiles, Sensors, Cloud, Hadoop are enabling creation & consumption of huge amount of data. This huge amount of data created every second and the technologies that make it possible to store and process the huge data are helping AI evolve and become smarter. Don't let some hi-fi techie tell you that AI is a new born and its going to make your job absolute. Like any other successful technology AI is being used for few years and it will help drive data driven intelligent automation to make our lives simpler. Way back computers were supposed to take away the job of millions of workers and though some jobs became obsolete, computers actually created many more new jobs and improved & simplified the way we do business. Today no one seems to blame computers for rendering them job less and in few years people will accept AI (which is nothing but a smarter computer program) as an invisible entity that is integral part of their life.
AI - Its about machines/computers learning from Data from Everywhere
Learning from mistakes is human nature but humans have finite memory and processing power as compared to a computer. From mid 1950s research is being done on machine learning, since machines can access data storage and learn from the data to continuously correct the mistakes and improve. The latest advances include self-driving cars, IBM Watson, a computer that can beat humans at Jeopardy and real-time machine translation that seem quite like the universal translator in Star Trek.My favorite AI info-graphic is the one below and it is owned / created by www.digitalintelligencetoday.com
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