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The evolution of AI#
If you’re anything like me, AI used to evoke futuristic images of human-like androids and supercomputer hive-minds. Pop culture, especially in the 80s-2000s, has lead us to believe that “artificial intelligence” is synonymous with “artificial sentience”.
In practice, AI is used for much more than world domination and now touches every aspect of our lives. Artificial intelligence is just the process of getting computers to process things more as humans do. The most obvious way to do that is to get computers to learn from past experiences with training data or by analyzing past processing logs. There are many subfields of AI that go about learning in different ways, such as machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, computer vision, and many more.
The more we discover about AI, the more applications we can see for it. After all, most businesses and users repeat similar tasks throughout their day-to-day lives. AI offers a way for our devices to remember those tasks and optimize for when we do them again.
But what about the uses of AI that most people would never think of? Let’s take a look at some unusual uses of AI and how they may develop in the future.