(28)What is Artificial Intelligence? List down applications and risks associated with AI?

Answer:

  • The ability to use memory, knowledge and prior experience by machine is called as Artificial intelligence (AI).
  • It is intelligence exhibited by machines.
  • For example: AI is used in google car, google assistant, siri, alexa etc.


Applications of Artificial Intelligence:
(1)Automated vehicles (self-driving cars),
(2)Drones
(3)Medical Equipment (predictive analysis of an individual getting ill by a disease)
(4)Playing games and predicting outcome of games.
(5)Search engines (such as Google search),
(6)Online assistants (such as Google assistant, siri, alexa etc.),


Risks of Artificial Intelligence:
(1)Incorrect Data: 
  • AI’s learning comes from the data it gets. Incorrect data can lead to incorrect conclusions.
(2)Security Threats:
  • Intelligent machines may start controlling human beings. 
  • AI (robots) carries a security threats. Countries are discussing to have a KILL button in all AI capable machines.
(3)Danger to human skills:
  • AI in long term may kill human skills of thinking. These machines shall not have capability of thinking out of box. 
  • All data shall be processed in a structured manner, where machines shall provide solution based on their learning over a period of time.