Thursday, November 28, 2013

Artificial Intelligence: The Best is Yet to come...

Wouldn't it be great to have all your work done by robos ? Yes indeed, looks like a fictional movie scene but researchers around the world are working hard on it to make that dream possible one day..and what I feel is that we are not very far from this given the invention in recent times. Well by now you would have figured out that I'm talking about Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence also defined as the "study and design intelligent agents", where an intelligent agent perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. In this blog-post I want to show you guys some amazingg inventions that makes me believe that we are not too far from achieving the impossible. And I am sure after reading this, you will also feel the same.

 To start off with IBM has made a artificial intelligence program named Watson, which accesses roughly 200 million pages of information and is able to understand natural language and answer questions; the idea was that Watson's encyclopedic knowledge of medical conditions could aid a human expert in diagnosing illness, as well as contributing computer expertise elsewhere. IBM later announced that it could be used for a wide-range of call center, technical support and technical sales applications. Look at this video of how Watson beats the reigning champion.


Intelligent Transportation
We all know about Google's driver-less car which has been in and around the Bay Area for quite a bit of time now..Another major invention rather cheap is that of a computer scientist from Israel modified his Audi A7 by adding a camera and artificial-intelligence software, enabling the car to drive the 65 Km highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.  The technique is different from Google in the sense that it uses cheaper methods of achieving its goal unlike Google's LIDAR which is expensive to deploy on production vehicles as sighted by Elon Musk.

Emotional Computing
Currently, at a preschool near University of California, San Deigo, a child-sized robot named Rubi plays with children. It listens to them, speaks to them and understands their facial expressions. Farther down the road, it is likely that applications will know exactly how people are reacting as the conversion progresses, a step well beyond Siri.

Robotics
A race is already under way to build robots that can walk, open doors, climb ladders and generally replace humans in hazardous situations. In November, DARPA had held a $2 million contest to build a robot that could take the place of humans in battle fields. For home, companies are designing robots that are more sophisticated than today's vacuum-cleaner robots. Hoaloha Robotics recently said, it planned to build robots for elder care, an idea that, if successful, might make it possible for more of the aging population to live independently.


Given all of this happening, I am desperately waiting to see some ground-breaking innovation that will blow our minds away!

1 comment:

  1. Hello, Akshay! This is a great post in AI new technologies! To admit, for some of the topics listed, I've just barely heard of them and never known so many actual applications! I also like the fact that you included videos to help readers get a more comprehensive view of these new inventions.
    I think the next thing people should consider about these inventions is how to reduce the overall cost. This way, the cool things can be affordable and just get into people's daily life!

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