There is a reason why Artificial Intelligence is so widely spread out and one of the main components of any intelligent work as a part of complex system. “Artificial Intelligence is a branch of Science which deals with helping machines find solutions to complex problems in a more human-like fashion” (1) One of the simplest examples of AI is our personal calculator, of course calculator size and options changed and are continue to change and improve all the time. This simply includes borrowing some curtain characteristic from humans such as numbers, letters of actions and applying the same in a computer friendly way. The importance of information that is being used can vary from its users to its developers. Depending on what is the purpose of the product or result that has to produced curtain AI may be applied. AI is generally associated with Computer science but it also can find important function in any other science such as mathematics, biology, chemistry and many more. AI is a part of our daily lives, movies and books have been written about this call it phenomenon all in order to explain it or rather understand it. In my opinion no matter how hard we try to humanize AI there will always be a difference between us and computers.
“AI Research creating a new form of life” (2) The potential applications of AI are endless. They stretch from military and its use on smart weapons to entertainment industry, which is my favorite through video games, all the way to more serious type of business such as banks and our insurance information. This AI stores, maintain and delivers information that we need. In military lost of human life is unacceptable and extremely costly, that is why computers or human guided weapons try to replace the human for much cheaper price and sometime with better results. Video games have come so far that they can actually present somehow simulation of real life, and again potential application here are endless. It will be almost impossible for all our financial information is stored on paper form which security would be seriously put in risk. “When it comes to making complex judgment calls, computers can’t replace people” (3) and this is the fact, but AI can be trained to some extent to think as humans do. Of course this will have to be some very basic human action but there will always be a fine dividing line between humans and AI. “Two of the most important and most used branches of AI are neural networks and expert systems” (3) The expert system usually is used to solve a real world problems using human knowledge and following reasoning human skills. But on the other hand, neural networks represent a series of diagrams and lines creating an extremely complex network. Basically the way I understood is that the most important application of some neural network is the ability to recognize some pattern which works similarly as human’s brain.
The bottom line is that AI is here to help us accomplish curtain goals for shorter time and so some parts of process of creating curtain cervices of products, but NOT to to make highly complex decisions because in computer word everything is black and white. People in real life know true meaning of so called “grey zone”.
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http://ai-depot.com/Intro.html (1)
http://www.a-i.com/ (2)
http://interests.caes.uga.edu/eai/ai.html (3)
