During the eighties, artificial intelligence was an anthropomorphic dream by the biggest storytellers in the world.
Today, we are in constant contact with AI at almost every moment, and sometimes without even realizing it.
Because of this very reason we have created this article, to talk about how many industries have adopted AI so well, it’s now essential for some of them.
The many faces of Artificial Intelligence
Did you know that artificial intelligence can detect cancer at early stages? or find areas of opportunity in your bank accounts? or even give deeper data regarding middle-school students?
AI has grown so much that its nose is now everywhere in the professional field. Of course, it’s not in the form of an android sassing its way through your office, but mostly as a program meant to compile, group and interpret data in a way that makes our jobs easier.
In the field of medicine, AI helps to make mammograms 30 times faster and with 99% accuracy, leading to easier detection of cancer on early stages on 50% of healthy women, reducing the need of unnecessary biopsies.
But let’s speak in terms of the general public daily lives. Smartwatch technology, like most iWatches have incorporated into their system has helped doctors make faster and more accurate diagnoses. Also, smartwatches have benefited people with the need for special needs like diabetics.
In finance, the industry has made an amazing match with machines due to the high rate of raw and behavioral data processing they both deal with on a daily basis. Today, many industry leaders resort to AI to predict market shifts and to find investment opportunities, very much as we would do on social media analysis and reports.
Looking at the education industry, the shift to active collaboration between AI and teachers is expected soon, since teachers have been looking for ways to create a more personalized educational system to lower the rate of educational lag in students.
The way this is done is that AI can gather tests data and individual behavioral data, group it and present it to the teachers so they, in turn, can make a qualitative diagnosis on each student based on data and perception on their daily activity.
In the transporting industry, this subject is a extense as the roads, oceans, and skies we transit daily. From the simple fact of using apps like Waze and Google Maps that use a very simple AI to provide us with directions, predicting times, change routes, etc.; to the use of self-driving trucks and cars to reduce time and shipping costs.
Actually, many companies are already testing cargo ships that are 100% sailed by IA, expecting that the machine can provide the fastest most fuel-efficient route, change that route in case of bad weather and other obstacles that it may find in the way.
Even though the industry is growing, mistrust endures
The industry of Artificial Intelligence is still young, it’s still missing a lot of computational power to accomplish what the top minds want out of it.
And not only that, one of the biggest obstacles of AI in the industry is mistrust towards machines when, really, they are designed to make things more efficient for human beings. Many people still believe that a pair of eyes that can get tired or distracted is much better than a machine that can work more than 100 hours non-stop, 7 days a week and on holidays.
We are all hoping that the next generations come already prepared to work hand in hand with AI and research its limits and benefits, meanwhile, we must educate people to believe more in machines and what they can bring to the table.
sources:
www.dzone.com
www.pwc.com
www.forbes.com
www.infinitiresearch.com