5.

5 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
APPLICATIONS
 Healthcare
 Companies are applying machine learning to make better and
faster diagnoses than humans.
 One of the best-known technologies is IBM’s Watson. It
understands natural language and can respond to questions
asked of it. The system mines patient data and other available
data sources to form a hypothesis, which it then presents with
a confidence scoring schema.
 The automated bots and healthcare applications ensure
proper medication and treatment of patients in the facilities.
 In certain cases, AI applications have also been known to
provide operating assistance to the doctors.
 It helps to support decision making and research.
 Smart Homes
 The most advanced form of applications of artificial intelligence in
the real-world are being implemented in homes, and are becoming
smarter and more accessible to the general population every day.
 The past few years have witnessed many smart devices that can
now learn your behavior patterns and help you save money by
saving energy, suggesting steps that can potentially save your
time and resources, and implementing cost-optimized operations.
 Thermostats and building management systems can help
automate building heating and cooling, for instance. In effect, they
learn and can predict when to turn your boiler on or off for optimal
comfort, whilst factoring in outside weather conditions as well.
ChatBots

 These days, virtual assistants are a very commodity

possessed by various industries.
 Almost every household has a virtual assistant that
controls their appliances at home. A few examples
include Siri, Cortana, and Alexa, which are gaining
popularity because of the user experience they provide.
 Amazon’s Echo is an example of how artificial
intelligence can be used to translate human language
into desirable actions. This device uses speech
recognition and NLP to perform a wide range of tasks
on your command.
Business

 Robotic process automation is being applied to highly

repetitive tasks normally performed by humans.
 Machine learning algorithms are being integrated into
analytics and CRM (Customer relationship
management) platforms to uncover information on
how to better serve customers.
 Chatbots have already been incorporated into websites
and e companies to provide immediate service to
customers.
 Automation of job positions has also become a talking
point among academics and IT consultancies.
 Image Enhancement
 Cameras and apps use AI for applying different effects on images,
refining their quality, and even suggest how to click them live.
 AI can help in object identification in images and also enhance the
photograph by identifying the depth, lighting, and scope of the
picture, and helping capture every element in as much detail as
possible.
 Artificial intelligence features allow the users to blur out the
background, increase focus on a particular object, add filters, and
do a plethora of other amazing experiments on the clicked picture.
 Google Photos uses AI to let users look up photos of particular
people in their contact lists or tags. It identifies the faces of
different people in your pictures and enables you to tag them or
search accordingly.
Social Media

 AI in social media can be associated with big

data and machine learning where deep
learning is used to extract every minute detail
from an image by using a bunch of deep
neural networks.
 On the other hand, machine learning
algorithms are used to design your feed
based on your interests.
 Surveillance

 AI has significantly evolved in the surveillance

domain and can identify many types of
threats such as intruders, invalid access,
unidentified individuals on defined premises,
etc.
 AI can also be trained using supervised
exercises, developing security algorithms,
identification protocols, and much more, to
take input from security cameras.
Agriculture
 With the increased demand for food, organizations are using
automation and robotics technology with AI embedded in it to
help farmers find more efficient ways to protect their crops
from various elements like weather, weeds, market
consumption rates, and much more.
 Issues such as climate change, population growth, and food
security concerns have pushed the industry into seeking more
innovative approaches to improve crop yield and targeted
production.
 The latest artificial intelligence applications in the form of
image recognition identify possible defects in the crops
through images captured by the user’s smartphone camera.
Users are then provided with soil restoration techniques, tips,
and other possible solutions to deal with the identified
defects.
Customer Service

 There are many websites now that offer customers the

ability to chat with customer support. These chat
support bots are little more than automated responders.
 The more advanced customer service chatbots are able
to extract information from the site and present it to
you on request. Chatbots are needed to adapt as per the
natural language.
 Teaching a machine to understand the human language
is not easy. Rapid advances in natural language
processing (NLP) means they are evolving by consuming
information all the time.
Video Games

 Over the past few years, one of the biggest accomplishments

of AI has been in the gaming industry.
 The actions taken by the opponent AI are unpredictable
because the game is designed in such a way that the
opponents are trained throughout the game and never
repeat the same mistakes.
 Their abilities to perform in the game gets better as the
game gets harder. This makes the games very challenging
and prompts the players to constantly switch strategies and
never use the same tactics again.
 AI is also used for designing the game, developing the
characters, and also frame the story to a certain extent.
Education

 It automates grading, giving educators more

time. It can also assess students and adapt to
their needs, helping them work at their own
pace.
Autonomous Vehicles

 Just like humans, self-driving cars need to have

sensors to understand the world around them and a
brain to collect, processes and choose specific actions
based on information gathered.
 Autonomous vehicles are with advanced tool to
gather information, including long range radar,
cameras, and LIDAR. Each of the technologies are
used in different capacities and each collects different
information. This information is useless, unless it is
processed and some form of information is taken
based on the gathered information. 
Robotics

 AI for robotics will allow us to address the

challenges in taking care of an aging
population and allow much longer
independence.
 It will drastically reduce, may be even bring
down traffic accidents and deaths, as well as
enable disaster response for dangerous
situations for example the nuclear meltdown
at the Fukushima power plant.