Artificial Intelligence: The Next Generation Brain

John McCarthy, an American computer scientist, defines artificial intelligence (aka AI) as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” I think what McCarthy really means that it is the goal of building machines that perform normal tasks with the requirement of human intelligence. I must agree with him that we will need to set long-term goals to simulate machines with human intelligence for future generations. Let’s talk about technological machines that were developed by artificial intelligence.

Self-driving cars: Self-driving cars are autonomous vehicles that are designed to drive without a human operator. In the latest generation of automobiles, AI has been developed and used to help the driver in steering the wheel and hitting the brakes to avoid accidents and collisions. For example, in the photo down below illustrates a Google self-driving car. Another feature would be setting your destination in the software and never using your hands on the wheel. Nowadays, AI helps drivers with parallel parking. Set the car on full control and it will calculate the distances between two cars and parallel park itself. This is how AI helps in self-driving cars.

Supercomputers: Supercomputers are highly expensive and powerful for scientific computations. For example, IBM Watson is a room-sized supercomputer which answered all of the questions on “Jeopardy.” This was a stunning revelation for the future of technology.






iPhone Siri: Siri was invented as the artificially intelligent voice control system for iPhone 4S, 5S, etc. For example, when one asks Siri for directions to restaurants/cafes in San Francisco, it immediately provides directions and options for the command it has received. Siri is one of this generation’s AI.

With AI, our world will become more advanced where machines own human intelligence and make our lives easier in the future.

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