The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our world. It helps businesses take advantage of new opportunities, make better decisions faster and solve complex problems with confidence. It speeds up medical diagnostics, reshapes financial fraud detection and optimizes energy models. And it frees humans to focus on high value, creative problem-solving.
AI is a broad field of study that spans computer science, data analytics and statistics, hardware and software engineering, linguistics, philosophy and psychology. The AI movement aims to teach computers to do the amazing things that our own brains can do, from understanding the world around them and learning new skills to coming up with fresh ideas.
In the 1940s, programmable computers sparked imaginations and led to the development of early AI systems. But we are still far from achieving the kind of human-like intelligent machines depicted in popular science fiction.
Today, AI is used to personalize social media feeds, spot friends and family in smartphone photos and pave the way for medical breakthroughs. It automates document verification, calls and emails, and helps with navigation in cars and on the web. It is also being applied to risky tasks in hazardous environments, helping to keep workers safe.
The rise of AI is being driven by breakthroughs in machine learning and deep learning, techniques that enable computers to learn from data without being explicitly programmed for specific tasks. Some of these breakthroughs are being realized in generative AI, a type of AI that can create its own text, images and video. Examples include OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which uses large language models to generate original content in response to questions or comments, and Google Translate, which applies deep learning algorithms to text to translate from one language to another.
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