What is artificial intelligence or AI?
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is a set of algorithms that simulate human intelligence at different scales.
AI is made up of a large number of different technologies, which will allow machines to learn and act as a human would. This process is broken down into three phases:
– Acquisition, information and rules of use
– Treatment, and the application of rules to achieve a result
– Self-correction, and evaluation of the relevance of the result
AI can be classified as strong or weak. Weak artificial intelligence (or narrow AI) aims to perform a single task or several closely related tasks perfectly. These AIs are well mastered and are very powerful, however their field of action is limited. They are regularly found in our daily lives such as virtual personal assistants such as Apple’s Siri.
Between use and fiction
Strong artificial intelligence (or general) intelligence remains a utopian concept today. Capable of solving all types of problems, responding to all capacities related to that of humans. Current technology does not allow for the creation of a technology capable of substituting human emotions. The subtleties of our interactions remain complicated to grasp.
Today, strong AI is a design ideal for Data Scientists. Indeed, it is very complicated to pass the Turing test. The latter asks an AI to hold a conversation with a human without the latter realizing it.
In what field is artificial intelligence used?
Today we use these mechanisms on a daily basis, from ChatBots, to voice assistants, including the economy, public transport and of course… health! Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the ideal assistant, especially in the context of weak AIs, as they are the ideal collaborator in the information society.
What are the social challenges of artificial intelligence?
Today we live in a completely new context, in fact, for nearly a century, all the greatest mathematicians have applied themselves to accompany us in this change. In the 1950s Alan Turing used the term artificial intelligence for the first time, AI is now indispensable. In the historical contexts that followed, the idea of assistance that could automate and save time was an ideal that emerged and then became a reality.
Thus, to talk about artificial intelligence is to integrate the notion of progress, it is a necessary evolution in our society.
