Artificial Intelligence in Simple Terms

As a Senior Citizen residing in a Senior Community, my daily life sometimes become boring. Thus I do my daily blogs and try to learn new things daily. One of the subject I am an ignoramus of is Artificial Intelligence(AI). So todays blog is AI and it application. This article is inspired by the video  at the bottom of the page. It is a video featuring my nephew and namesake on some of the AI applications he is currently involved with. If you remember, he visited me here at THD last month and most of you have meet him while he was making a video of One Day in My Life here at THD as a gift for my coming 90th birthday this December. 

https://theintellectualmigrants.blogspot.com/2024/08/my-aussie-nephew-one-day-visit-here-at.html

So what is AI? Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Examples of AI applications include expert systems, natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition and machine vision.

Applications and devices equipped with AI can see and identify objects. They can understand and respond to human language. They can learn from new information and experience. They can make detailed recommendations to users and experts. They can act independently, replacing the need for human intelligence or intervention (a classic example being a self-driving car). 

But in 2024, most AI researchers and practitioners—and most AI-related headlines—are focused on breakthroughs in generative AI (gen AI), a technology that can create original text, images, video and other content. To fully understand generative AI, it’s important to first understand the technologies on which generative AI tools are built: machine learning (ML) and deep learning.

Meanwhile here's a video from the lecture of my Nephew and namesake last year in Brussels for your viewing pleasure. As they say, we seniors are never too old to learn something new. I hope you agree with my statement, that we are not too old to learn something new every day of our life. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wsU5xeOoXI

Finally, here are my three favorites quotes on AI:

1. “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.” — Stephen Hawking told the BBC

2. “I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.”—Claude Shannon

3.  “Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.”—Larry Page