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Artificial Intelligence will Revolutionize Every Thing

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Bhavin Asher, Solutions Architect, SalesforceEverything invented in the past 150years will be reinvented using AI within the next 15 years. Artificial intelligence is a term often reserved for the likes of Skynet in the ‘Terminator’films or ENCOM's mainframe in the‘Tron’ movie, Artificial intelligence (AI)and a world in which machines threaten humanity’s status quo has been the preserve of science fiction and movies for decades.

The reality, is the bot has bolted.AI is walking and talking among us. In2016, we use voice-recognition systems like Siri; driverless cars are being trialed and robotic hotel receptionists’ work inJapan. The advent of certain technologies,in expensive high-speed Internet, secure cloud storage, mobility solutions and low cost devices has allowed the fantastical possibilities of the past to become reality.Instead, they see AI as an indispensable tool for supporting humans in virtually every aspect of life, especially incommercial applications.

AI and Business Today

Rather than serving as a replacement for human knowledge and ingenuity,AI is generally seen as a support tool for the humans using the technology. Although AI currently has a difficult time completing common-senset asks in the real world, it is adept at processing and analyzing troves of data far more quickly than a human brain could. AI can then return with a number of synthesized courses of action and present them to the human user. In this way, humans can use AI tohelp game out possible consequence sof each action and streamline the decision-making process.

It allows shoe shoppers to whittle down a catalogue into personal choices with a few swipes, factoring in subtle details such as slope of toe, height of heel and shape of sole. A restaurant could use AI, for example, to decide which music to play based on the interests of the guests in attendance.AI could e ven alter the appearance of the wallpaper design based onwhat the technology anticipates the aesthetic preferences of the crowd might be.
Some Applications of AI in the Future Could Be:

AI as an indispensable tool for supporting humans in virtually every aspect of life,especially in commercialapplications


Virtual Assistance

The first and most obvious way touse artificial intelligence is for virtua lassistance. Many have already had the experience of speaking into a phone to search for answers to basic questions,like who invented Electricity or a sum of two numbers or directions to the nearest Petrol Pump. It’s become so commonplace that we rarely stop to think that it would have seemed like science fiction a decade ago.

Generating Insights

Data has been called the new oil because it is essentially the rawmaterial of the digital economy. What used to be trapped in a vast maze of incompatible database and protocols or worse, filing cabinets is now quickly becoming a fungible commodity that can be accessed by new technology platforms like Hadoop and Spark.

Yet much like oil, data is largelynuseless without effective machinery to transform it into something of value. That’s the role that machine learning is starting to play. Today’ssystems can not only take in billions and billions of data points and analyze them in minutes, they can also learnfrom the data and get better over time.

Automation of Manual Processes

One of the constants through out the rise of technology is the automation of work. First came labor saving machines such as tractors and home appliances, and later industrial robots and basic systems to automate thing slike travel reservations arrived. Today,more advanced robots are even able to work alongside humans in factories.

Unlocking Unstructured Data

Traditionally, almost all of the datawe analyzed was structured data, the kind that gets captured and stored ina database. So we were reasonably good at deriving insights from datagenerated for that purpose, likesales from a cash register or answers to a consumer survey, but almost everything else got lost. That’s abigger problem than most realize,because structured data represents only a small part of the informationavailable to us. In fact, it has been estimated that 80 percent of digital data is unstructured.

Finally, what makes artificialintelligence systems so powerfulis that, unlike purely statisticalapproaches, they can learn. Thatallows them to adapt when marketbehavior changes as well ascontinually improve performance asmore data comes in. We are enteringa new era of cognitive collaborationin which machines become far morethan just agents to perform tasks, buthelp us to understand the world andmake better decisions.

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