Unit 1- AI Reflection
Understanding AI
● When a machine possesses the ability to mimic human traits, i.e., make decisions, predict the
future, learn and improve on its own, it is said to have artificial intelligence. In other words, you can say
that a machine is artificially intelligent when it can accomplish tasks by itself - collect data, understand it,
analyse it, learn from it, and improve it.
● AI is a form of intelligence; a type of technology and a field of study.
● AI theory and development of computer systems (both machines and software) are able to perform
tasks that normally require human intelligence.
● Artificial Intelligence covers a broad range of domains and applications and is expected to impact
every field in the future.
Overall, its core idea is to build machines and algorithms which are capable of performing computational
tasks that would otherwise require human-like brain functions.
Domains of AI
These three domains of AI – Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision and Data for AI are quite
distinct from each other, they together constitute the concept of Artificial Intelligence.
Some AI Applications
1)Face Lock in Smartphones Smartphones nowadays come with the feature of face locks in which the
smartphone’s owner can set up his/her face as an unlocking mechanism for it. The front camera detects and
captures the face and saves its features during initiation. Next time onwards, whenever the features match,
the phone is unlocked.
2)Smart assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa recognize patterns in speech, then infer meaning
and provide a useful response.
3)Fraud and Risk Detection :Finance companies were fed with bad debts and losses every year. However,
they had a lot of data which used to get collected during the initial paperwork while sanctioning loans. They
decided to bring in data scientists to rescue them from losses. Over the years, banking companies learned to
divide and conquer data via customer profiling, past expenditures, and other essential variables to analyse
the probabilities of risk and default. Moreover, it also helped them to push their banking products based on
customer’s purchasing power.
4)Medical Imaging: For the last decades, computer supported medical imaging application that has been a
trustworthy help for physicians. It doesn’t only create and analyse images, but also becomes an assistant and
helps doctors with their interpretation. The application is used to read and convert 2D scan images into
interactive 3D models that enable medical professionals to gain a detailed understanding of a patient’s health
condition.
Practice Questions
Objective Type Questions.
1. Which one of the following is an application of AI?
a. Remote controlled Drone b. Self-Driving Car c. Self-Service Kiosk d. Self-Watering Plant System
2. Identify the domain of Semantris game.
a. Statistical data [Link] c. Computer Vision [Link] Learning
3. This field is enabling computers to identify and process images as humans do:
a. Face Recognition b. Model-view-controller c. Computer Vision d. Eye-in-Hand System
4. What does NLP stand for in AI?
a. Neutral Learning Projection b. Neuro-Linguistic Programming
c. Natural Language Processing d. Neural Logic Presentation
5. Which of the following is not a domain of artificial intelligence?
a. Data Management System b. Computer Vision c. Natural Language Processing d. Data Science
Subjective Questions.
1. Can you list down a few applications in your smartphone that widely make use of computer vision?
2. Draw out the difference between the three domains of AI with respect to the types of data they use.
3. Identify the features and the domain of AI used in following applications:
a) Robotic surgical bots b) chatbots c) sentiment analysis d) Amazon
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