THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Paola Cuadros

The technology is everywhere we look. The

current era has evolved exponentially, for this
reason, this development is called
"Technological revolution". This evolution
has grown with big advances following the goal
of improving our lives. One of this
improvements is the Artificial Intelligence, but,
have you EVER heard about Artificial
Intelligence?

How started the AI?

The Artificial intelligence is an advance that has changed our lives, from cell phones
to robots, everything has AI, but, what is it? The AI is the capacity that a machine has
to emulate the human behavior, like learning, thinking, taking decisions; etc. This is
achieved by the recollection and analysis of data. In 1996, IBM (a technological
company) created Deep Blue, a machine for playing chess, this machine won two out
four times against the best player of chess in the world. In that time the AI used to
work with a theory called "Decision tree", this theory starts with a premise, continue
with one or more decisions, all with the objective to solve the initial premise. This
theory was inspired by the way how humans make decisions daily, example:

But now, the AI works with algorithms. These algorithms allows to learn about previous
experiences, example: A computer to analysis of feeling must be trained to recognize
when a person is happy or sad. This is achieved by showing to computer different
photos with different feelings and teaching it when someone is sad or happy. After this
process, the machine will had the ability to learn about previous experiences.

How has the AI changed our lives ?

In this moment, there is a lot of technology with AI, for example, the personal
assistants, like Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana, Alexa, among others. They use speech
recognition for communicating with people. They learn about personal preferences
and they have the ability to alert us about our meetings, weather, also they can search
music, videos, movies, news, and much more. Another example are the chatbots, they
have the ability to interact with people simulating a real conversation. They are used
like a media between a company and a client, for example, Carla, she is the chatbot
of Avianca. This AI allows to check the itinerary, knows about flight news, resolves
questions, etc. Other chatbot is Sofia of Falabella, this AI allows to resolve questions
about offices location, office hours, etc. Those are just some examples about the use
of AI in our lives. You can find machines of facial recognition, simulating a person in a
video, cleaning houses, creating memes, etc.

How has evolved the AI?

Finally, there are some robots created with
AI, but with the difference that they are more
powerful than mentioned before. One of this
is Watson, it is a machine created by IBM, it
has been able to be in some debates with
human where they discussed topics about
"The use of public funds for space
exploration", also, Watson is famous for
competing in an American program called
Jeopardy, that is a program of questions and
answers. When Watson participated in this
program, it won against the two best participants of history of this program. Another
famous robot is Sophia, she is as powerful as watson, she was created by Hanson
Robotics. She is a humanoid, she is almost as smart as humans. She has been
interviewed many times, demonstrating her ability to have a real conversation. She
has facial expressions like those of humans. She has been in constant learning from
her birth to current time.

In conclusion, the AI is a technological advance that is changing our lives, with it we

may improve our health, transport, communication, and all that you can imagine. But
we need to improve our knowledge and the way how the AI is used, because, the AI
can improve our life, but also, it can affect the way as we live, generating addiction,
taking away repetitive jobs and depriving us from our privacy. So, we are ready for
living with AI around us?