Artificial intelligence (AI) saw a dramatic change in the recent years. In the recent years, the use of logic-based reasoning led to the success of artificial intelligence with least resemblance to the initial concept . The article exemplifies the scenario of a ware house that belongs to diaper.com. In the warehouse, hundreds of robots perform the work of placing the items in a logical sequence and filling an order. Though the robots are not smart and possess no qualities of humans, they present a new cutting edge in the field of artificial intelligence. In the recent times, instead of recreating human brain, artificial intelligence focused on designing the robots with sophisticated sensors and data sets in order to perform distinct tasks . Artificial intelligence has its use in several fields. Credit card companies track fraud transactions in credit cards and financial systems handle huge amounts of trade with the help of artificial intelligence. Major companies such as Google use artificial intelligence to construe queries.
Entertainment provider Netflix uses robots to recommend movies to its customers. With the high rate of failures in the past, scientists lost interest in artificial intelligence. However, the way the artificial intelligence machines perform tasks which are impossible for humans raised a hope to invent many more machines. In the 1957, the scientists predicted that the artificial intelligence machines would replicate the humans; however, the dream couldn’t become a reality. In the 1980’s several graduate students focused on building computer systems that worked on the reasoning concepts decided by the students. The cofounder of Thinking Machines, Danny Hillis stated “intelligence isn’t a unitary thing” . Researchers began to use probability-based algorithms to interpret huge amounts of data and left the decision upon the machine as to how to interpret it. The use of genetic algorithms in the machines made the task effective by classifying the highest-performing code from the large chunk of code.
The revolution of artificial intelligence led to the construction of a digital world, which works in an intellectual way. Mechanical processes in collaboration with artificial intelligence, such as the invention of the automatic brake system instead of the manual brake system are the foundation to invent cars that run with minimal involvement of humans . The world today is increasingly dependent on machines. Machines derived from artificial intelligence perform the same task several times faster and with much accuracy when compared to the humans. Artificial intelligence also plays a major role in the field of medicine. In the 1980’s, artificial intelligence systems assisted the pathologists in carrying out their studies and experiments. However, people did not believe the system as the answers were too quick. Artificial intelligence plays a crucial role in the field of finance infrastructure.
Artificial intelligence has a vast use in the transportation system, especially the railways. The use of algorithmic strategies to analyze the maintenance of the railways helps to anticipate the impact of transit time, fleet size and real-time operations . Professor Powell came up with a dynamic programming technology to enable decision-making and suggest improvements in the data center. In the previous years, people feared from the artificial intelligence systems with the fear that they might take out humans; however, in the present day, the scenario is entirely different. Humans embedded machines for almost every activity or task they perform in their lives. The fears regarding the ramification of the machines became irrelevant. Thus, the revolution of artificial intelligence will create wonders in the years to come. Danny Hillis mentions the fact that “The computers are in control, and we just live in their world” .
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