What are Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Real World?

Tyler Senzon
Nov 2 · 3 min read

Introduction: Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence(AI) is the future of our planet. It offers practical solutions to real-world problems. AI is being integrated into all aspects of life.

AI: “The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.” (Oxford)

Artificial Intelligence allows consumers and businesses to access low-cost prediction and discovery techniques. These predictions drive business decisions and automation in daily life.

Artificial Intelligence models take in large amounts of data for training and make predictions that are faster, and more efficient than their human counterparts. Once a network has been trained, it can excel at completing specific tasks.


Applications of AI

Artificial intelligence has applications in transportation, such as autonomous vehicles, healthcare, identifying sicknesses such as cancer, finance, predicting financial risks and action plans, entertainment, using algorithms to recommend content tailored to you on platforms such as Youtube and Netflix.

Shopping

Your online shopping experiences are about to get a major upgrade. Companies like Amazon are integrating AI into their current technologies to recommend users products. In 2013, Amazon was granted a patent that is a delivery system that ships products out to you before you make the action yourself, called “anticipatory shipping”. The company uses data generated by the user’s purchase decisions in the past to programs for peak performance.

Products Created by Amazon, demonstrating their major investment in AI for the future.

Medicine

Healthcare systems around the world are using artificial intelligence techniques to their advantage. Personalized medicine and bio-synthetic engineering fields are quickly expanding, due to their highly vast amount of pre-existing data. Misdiagnosis and symptoms of medication may eventually become things of the past. Drugs are being virtually tested, rather than going through the many processes of a clinical trial to get an undesirable result. AI systems can learn from training, and be incentivized or punished depending on how well it performs, to create an optimized system. The trial and error in medicine can be drastically reduced, creating more efficient and effective treatments for illnesses of today.

Products and Solutions like IBM Watson provide doctors with the data and tools necessary to create the medical care of the future, today.

Agriculture

The farming industry in the united states is to be highly impacted by the use of artificial intelligence. From self-driving tractors to drone systems created to protect crops, AI has made it’s mark, and is here to stay. Farmers will attain higher yields and better products overall with the use of this new technology. Taking in data from weather conditions, the water content in the soil, air quality, and many other factors, AI programs can make decisions, and create paths for automated machines to go and execute. These highly automated systems will put higher quality food on your dinner table while decreasing prices.

Aerial view of automated tractor system in work

Key Takeaways

  • AI has made its mark on the world and will continue to do so in the following decades.
  • AI algorithms can be set to do a certain task, and do it well.
  • There are many fields within AI, and it’s applications are endless.
  • AI goes much further than medicine, agriculture, and shopping, it is used everywhere from your recommendations on youtube to the placement of products in grocery stores.
  • The future is bright, AI is just developing, so TAKE ADVANTAGE!
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