Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a phenomenon that has been steadily creeping its way into all aspects of our lives. AI systems have become more advanced, intelligent, and sophisticated to the extent that they are being deployed in more products, services, and processes that humans engage in daily. Here are 5 major areas where AI is making an impact on everyday life:Here are 5 major areas where AI is making an impact on everyday life:
1. Virtual Assistants
Natural language processing and speech recognition technologies are among the AI that make devices such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana to ‘listen’ and ‘understand’ spoken instructions, queries and respond accordingly. Some of them are capable of waking up the user, creating shopping lists, informing about the weather and traffic conditions, playing music, and managing smart home devices. These addendums carry on to evolve with more contextual understanding and multi-device and multi-service support. They assist us in increasing efficiency and getting fast navigation to important data.
2. Media Streaming Recommendations
Every time you open Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, or any other media streaming application, AI plays a role in suggesting movies, series, and videos that you might like. These recommendations are as specific to the individual user as is possible and are calculated in consideration of such parameters as the history of the content viewed, ratings, and the audiences who watched similar content. The more you use these services, the more they learn and start suggesting content that you would prefer. AI allows us to have a customized media consumption.
3. Smartphones and Cameras
Some of the features in smartphones and cameras we use daily are improved by AI. Cameras empowered by artificial intelligence can recognize scenes and settings, enhancing the ability to take better pictures and videos. Google Photos is an example of an app that applies AI in identifying the people and objects in the pictures, searching through the photos, creating albums and collage, and others. The computational photography in our phones which is fueled by AI results in good pictures without the need to tweak or edit.
4. Online Search and Recommendations
Modern websites such as Google use AI technologies to enhance understanding of search queries in context and provide the most relevant results. The search algorithm is thus able to search for intent behind what a person searches for and gives a person’s search suggestions. Furthermore, when you are on platforms such as Amazon and deciding to make a purchase, the site offers you products that you might be interested in buying based on your previous purchases. This makes online shopping and finding new products more convenient. The constant optimisation of recommendations maintains user attention to digital services.
5. Autonomous Vehicles
Among the most revolutionary applications of AI is the self-driving car. Currently, major players in the AV industry such as Tesla, Waymo, and Uber are developing AI capabilities that enable the vehicle to see the road environment, plan routes, identify hazards, and decide how to operate the car safely, as a skilled human driver would. The benefits are likely to be improved road safety, better accessibility for those who cannot drive, and additional time saved for other activities rather than driving. While self-driving cars remain under development and refinement, AI-enabled ADAS are already helping drivers on the road today – with features such as automatic emergency braking.
AI application list is expanding still. Almost every industry is looking for possibilities to integrate AI into various products and services today using machine learning and neural networks. Subsequently, the integration of AI is expected to gain pace as supporting cloud infrastructure, software frameworks and developer tools advance. Today’s usable AI examples show where machines can fill in and extend human cognition, but they do not encompass the full spectrum of human intelligence.
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