When I was little, my parents told me stories of how they had to physically walk to a store,
look through a huge catalog, ask if it was available, and finally hope it would be of
decent quality to enjoy - all to watch a single movie. And I thought, “Wait. So, you’re
telling me that you couldn’t just log into Netflix, see what movies they’ve recommended
to you based on one’s you’ve liked in the past, and enjoy the whole thing within
the click of a button? Then I thought, well exactly how is it that Netflix is able to
magically know what I’ll like?” So, I started to do some research, and little did
I realize that at that moment, I stepped into a new realm. I soon realized that it’s not
just Netflix that has these so called “magical abilities”. Look around you. A GPS - how
can it predict our arrival time to such precision, accounting for all traffic, stops, and accidents,
well before we even get on the road? How does Spotify recommend the perfect songs specifically
for us without fail? Ever noticed how Google comes up with millions of search results catered
exactly for us within the blink of an eye? These are things that we take for granted
– they’re just another part of life, right? But if you take a step back and ask: “How?”,
do you know the answer? Well, in reality, it’s actually quite simple – just two
words.
Artificial Intelligence.
So, what exactly is Artificial Intelligence, or for short, AI? AI is a huge branch of computer
science that allows us to create machines that can work and act just like humans, but
in a much faster, more efficient, and error-free way.
So, why do we need AI? Well, the easiest way to understand this would be through an example.
Imagine you are running a business and want to improve your company by seeing what customers
like about your products and what they don’t. To do this, you publish a survey that millions
of people take. At first, you’re happy because you have so much feedback to work with which
means that much potential to improve your business. But then you quickly realize that
it’s not humanly possible for you and your team to look through all this data and make
sense out of it. Well, that’s exactly where AI comes in. With an AI machine, this huge
data can be processed within seconds and produce results more accurate and valuable than any
human team can. And just like Netflix, it can use the info it collected to predict how
much people will like, or dislike, your next product. In a sense, it predicts the future
in a matter of seconds.
So, if computers have the ability to learn faster, process better, and remember more
than humans, will they completely take over at one point? Not quite.
Humans have always been the most intelligent beings on Earth. You might be thinking, well
a calculator can do such complex calculations within seconds – something that’s not
possible for a human. While that’s true, can your calculator write an essay? Can it
invent? Does it have emotions or unique thoughts, to help it sympathize with others? Can it
solve problems and make decisions using not only its intelligence but also its instincts,
common sense, and life experiences? The short answer, no. So no need to worry about evil
robots taking over the world in the future. Or should we worry? Afterall, intelligence
itself is fused into the very name of AI. So if it’s true that the machines can learn,
adapt, and think better, perhaps there is a possibility that it could begin to go on
the wrong side. But here’s the good news. We are the ones that are making it intelligent
to begin with. We need to make sure that we follow rules and protocols as a community
to start and grow this fascinating field of ai in the right direction. or in other words,
we need to embody ethics in artificial intelligence. there’s a lot to talk about When it comes
to ethics in AI, but we’ll come back to that in future videos.
Rather than replace us, machines can work in unison with us to better our society. They
can help us achieve the impossible.
So as you can see, the field of AI is absolutely fascinating – it lets us achieve the impossible.
But to discover how AI works, you can’t study just the broad field of Artificial Intelligence
alone – it is just too vast. You have to learn about the subfields of AI, each of which
contribute to the wonders that you saw in the video. So the next step on your journey
towards mastering Artificial Intelligence is learning about these branches. In the next
video right here [show video], I’ll introduce you to all of the most important and powerful
branches of AI. If you’ve learned something from this video, make sure to give it a like,
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