What is and What can the Artificial Intelligence do for you?

What is Artificial Intelligence?

This is an easy question: A branch of computer science. We know, this is not the waited answer, maybe another similar question could be more useful:

What does Artificial Intelligence?

This question is complex and the answer is very wide, but we will try to explain in few words. Artificial Intelligence (AI) tries to emulate and to do things characteristic of humans or animals that require some kind of intelligence.

For example, the most famous search engine on the world is based on AI because it needs to identify, catalog and relate words, knowledge and relevant information present in all the Internet. Do you imagine the effort needed by a person to do the same task in a library?

There are more examples of AI present in our life: Do you know Roomba, the vacuum cleaning robot?, the “nearest wiki” app for iPhone, Google Goggles?, have you played any video-game against “the machine”?, have you ever asked yourself how does Facebook suggest you new friends?, how does the number plate identification system work (present in a lot of parkings)?

All these examples use AI techniques as “augmented reality”, “data mining”, “autonomous agents”, “reinforcement learning” and others. Do you have a more clear vision about what AI means? Now, we can answer a new question:

What can AI do for me?

This question is easier to answer: Any task where you need to search, identify or find information, and tasks where you need “some thinker element (physical or abstract)” to achieve a problem autonomously. These are tasks where Artificial Intelligence could be present.

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