We all have heard this word in our daily lives.

We hear things like “AI is the future” AI is going to

change our lifestyles” or things like that. I’m sure that all of you have seen at least a movie or a tv
series that talk about that. Those sci-fi stories where Ais get conscient and take control of the
planet. But…

What is an AI?

Basically, AI is a simulation of human intelligence processes done by a machine.

These processes include:

- Learning: To acquire new information and rules to use that information

- Reasoning: To use the rules to reach whether approximate or definitive conclusions
- Self-correction: To learn from previous mistakes

As you can see, those are processes we use as human beings. Those are basic processes of learning

An AI would be any system or program that replicate human capabilities. Could be for specific task
or something more general. The challenge for these new technologies is to be capable of
understanding and analyzing their surroundings on a deeper level.

Let’s talk about history of AI. Alan Turing was a British mathematician, who was the first person
who formulated the question: Can machines actually think? and he proposed a method to figure it
out:

The Turing test. The test will be successful when a human being can interact with a machine
without noticing that is a machine. And we already have some examples of that. When we play
chess online, its difficult to know if we are playing against another person or a machine.

But the term “AI” surged in 1956 given by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky y Claude Shannon who
defined Ai as the science of making intelligent machines.

A lot of people are not aware of this, but AI is present in our daily life almost all the time. Apps like
Facebook, google, amazon and Netflix use AI to give us recommendations and offers based on our
profile. Even the square that recognizes our faces when we take a selfie.

AI is powerful, in some aspects it has exceeded human capabilities, like memorizing or recognizing
patterns. This has already showed some results. For instance, in medicine. They have developed
machines that can predict medical diagnostics by analyzing the symptoms of the patients, giving a
more accurate diagnostic than an actual doctor.

The fact is that AI is going to have even more impact in the future. What can we wait for in the
future? Should we be afraid of new technologies? Some people think that in some point in the
future, robots are going to take our jobs, and humans will no longer be needed. While others think
that we will have more opportunities to improve our life quality.
Here we have one of the most important people in the world in terms of technologic
development. He thinks we should stop the raising of new technologies related to AI until we fully
understand how it works. While in the other hand, we have Mark Zuckerberg who thinks that it’s
stupid to stop the development of new tools that can facilitate our lives.

Right now, all we can do is to look forward to the things the future will bring to us.