Ever since Ancient Greece thinking machines and artificial creatures have appeared in tales and myths. As an area of research it’s been around since the mid 50’s and has endured several “winters” where financing and faith in AI has been faint.
Recent years things are definitely looking up and scientists have made great progress in mimicking the real neurons in our brains allowing machines to process information by themselves and learn from the experience - “deep learning”.
Within a not to distant future we can expect to see a lot more of AI in our everyday lives in the form of:
Cyborgs
Artificial limbs and body parts communicating with our brain to give the patient more control.
Robots in dangerous jobs
Smart robots can take on the task of disarming a bomb and do a much faster and more accurate job than the human guided drones that are available today can.
Healthcare
As well as performing dangerous tasks robots will be able help surgeons where extreme precision is needed and AI in computers will be able to assist in the diagnosis procedure by having access to and summarizing large amounts of data. Also friendly robots taking care of elders or physically disabled will be a common sight
Driver-less vehicles safely transporting people and goods are only just beginning to see the daylight. Lots of car manufacturers has already implemented assisted driving in the forms of object avoidance, auto braking, dynamic cruise control and more.
Fully automated transport
Driver-less vehicles safely transporting people and goods are only just beginning to see the daylight. Lots of car manufacturers has already implemented assisted driving in the forms of object avoidance, auto braking, dynamic cruise control and more.
Big data
Every field of science, be it genetics, biology, astronomy, physics, environmental research, meteorology or financial trading generates vast amounts of data. But what do we do with all that information? The human brain is certainly not capable of processing this ever growing mountain. However, computers are. Equipped with deep learning algorithms they extract, or mine, this mountain for complex connections and trends that could ultimately answer our worlds biggest questions like; what is the universe made of (atoms accounts for only about 5% of the universes total mass)? How did life begin? Are we alone? How do we solve the climate change?
So how do we gather the processing power and create a neural network so great that it can provide us with some of these answers? One resent project tries to connect all of the unused computer power in tablets, phones, laptops and smart TV’s just littering our homes and offices and pay the user back over the network in coins, Hadrons. With a little luck and som hard work this crypto project might be able to grow at a parallel rate with Artificial Intelligence. Imagine where we will be in ten years.
References:
https://hadron.cloud/dashboard
https://np.reddit.com/r/HadronCoin/
http://bigdata-madesimple.com/the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-6-ways-it-will-impact-everyday-life/
https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data
https://www.[Suspicious link removed]s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/01/20-big-questions-in-science
Topic: AI - What is it for? (Read 130 times)
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