Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a thing for a very long time now and a lot of what is being talked about is how AI will take people’s jobs in the future. Truth is, AI is here now and is present in our everyday lives. Industries like healthcare, retail and e-commerce, banking and financial services, and entertainment and gaming use this technology already.
Here are five things you probably didn’t know about Artificial Intelligence
1. AI can read
AI can read anything from news articles, weblinks, books, emails, legal documents, audio, and image files. In fact, Facebook uses SummarizeBot to extract the most important information to save you the time of having to read the whole thing. It picks up keywords so that you can grasp what a text is about in just seconds. Apps like Slack also rely on language processing and artificial intelligence.
2. Writing
AI can write anything from poems, novels, and emails. Google Assistant, for example, is an artificial intelligence bot assistant that will help answer all your questions. Many marketers use it to craft social media posts and newsletters.
News organisations including The New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, and Yahoo! Sports use AI to generate their content. According to Forbes, in 2019 The Associated Press could produce 30 000 local stories using AI.
3. Artificial Intelligence can hear and understand
It can analyze sounds like gunshots and then report to or alert relevant services. Assistant Alexa gets triggered by the word “awake” and can listen in on your conversations and record. But you can, however, turn that off in your privacy settings and you can delete the recordings whenever. You can use Alexa to ask for the latest weather, to turn music on for you, to provide you with information just by listening to you. Amazing, right?
4. Speak
Artificial Intelligence can speak to you. Google Assistance will respond to your queries with a speaking voice and give you accurate information too. Siri and Cortana are other types of AI that will speak right back at you. It can also seem like you are having a real conversation with a real human being too.
5. Manage Traffic
The use of artificial intelligence in traffic helps tackle and solve many issues related to traffic law enforcement. AI technology can detect the speed at which vehicles travel and inform the relevant department if there are breach road laws; monitors are embedded just next to the road to sensor the traffic and collect data which is sent to the relevant department.