Artificial Intelligence
By: Hussein
Artificial Intelligence (better known as AI) is the study of computers performing smart tasks that previously could have been done by a human. Artificial Intelligence is one of the best inventions in technology! For example, when you are on Spotify, (A music streaming app) and you search your recommendation and find a pretty decent song, all of that was done by AI using previous data. It’s not just Spotify but Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and way more! According to Quantmrun, in 2013, 61.5% of the internet was made of bots, algorithms, and more. That was in 2013 and Timothy Shoup thinks that in 2025-2030, almost all of the internet will run on AI. (approx. 99 to 99.9) AI’s aren’t only in your Chromebook, phone or laptop but everywhere. Whenever people think of AI, they think of Siri and Alexa. Siri and Alexa are called Conversational AI. Most Conversational AI are in your phones or in your home. There are some conversational AI that have a humanoid body (like a human). Those, however, are very expensive and difficult to make. There are many different types of AI. To name a few there are: Reactive, Limited Memory, Theory of Mind, and Self Aware. Reactive AI’s are the most common. They are the type of artificial intelligence that Siri and Alexa are! They are the most simple ones of the bunch. They receive an input and respond with an output either with voice, text, signs, symbols or even movement. Limited memory AIs store previous information/data to come up with better predictions. For example, Google Docs has the spell check feature which is mostly run on limited memory. They analyze what you're talking about to come up with better suggestions and spell check. There is also reinforcement learning which is a part of limited memory. Reinforcement learning is used to make AI’s that play games such as Dota 2, Chess, CSGO, Roblox, etc. There are more aspects to it but they’re very complicated. The next is Theory of Mind that we haven’t even reached yet! Theory of Mind offers better emotional support and detects if you're stressed or mad. For example, if Siri had Theory of Mind and you were stressed out, Siri will try to help you out. I can’t really explain anything else about this topic because we haven’t even made this AI beyond a concept. Lastly, Self-aware AI: self-aware AI is basically AI reaching nirvana. They realize they are AI and we are humans. You might think Alexa knows this already but no, she really doesn’t. People like Elon Musk fear AI will get to this phase because they might want to take over humanity! What do you think; will AI be evil or good? It doesn’t take a genius to find out that AI’s aren’t that easy to create. There are many different types of components to create them. Machine learning, as its name suggests, are machines that learn. They use data and previous knowledge to make the right decisions. One of my favorite parts of artificial intelligence is deep learning. Deep learning is a part of machine learning that imitates the way humans gain certain types of knowledge. Data science covers a pretty crucial part of AI. Data science combines math, coding, statistics and more to bring more data to the AI. Now you know how AI recommends songs on Spotify!