Artificial Intelligence: A Brief Overview and History

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Artificial intelligence (AI), which is at times known as smart machines, is a well-developed and advanced branch of computer science that refers to how a machine can perform tasks in a smart or critical pattern similar to that of humans.  AI is sometimes programmed in a way that can make them capable of doing better or outperforming humans in executing target tasks. In this day and age, everything is becoming AI-oriented which has sparked a lot of reactions among the public on whether or not it is the right way to go or not. The industrial sector is feeling the biggest impact of artificial intelligence in both positive and negative ways, because it is the sector that needs it the most compared to the others.

HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

The concept, phenomenon and idea of artificial intelligence has existed for centuries.  Many philosophers and scientists have discussed how automation and robotics could be brought to reality pre-dating the ancient Greeks.  Ancient Greeks had myths about machines with human thinking capacity. Ancient Chinese and Egyptian engineers built automation machines, some of which used water systems and others that used elaborate gear systems. Later, the concept and idea started gaining acceptance and credibility as scientists, mathematicians, and engineers made more strides.  Efforts and progress in the development of computers, flourishing in the 20th century, led to modern artificial intelligence.

In history, AI has been said to face a lot of setbacks because unlike other sectors in the tech industry which were heavily funded as early as the late 16th to early 17th century, AI wasn’t, not until the mid-1950s. This was because a lot of people didn’t believe in the idea during that time, but as time went by,  machines were invented capable of carrying out some tasks better than humans. A very notable example of this is the invention of a programmable digital computer, the Atanasoff Berry Computer (ABC) by John Vincent Atanasoff (1903-1995) and his graduate student Clifford berry (1918-1963) in 1942.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

There is no doubt that the tech industry is a field that has been growing and expanding at a very fast pace. The rapid growth of the sector was achieved since the invention of the first computers, and like any other industrial sector, the tech industry is so dependent on computers that its advancement and evolution has relied heavily on computers.  AI is now the current trend in the industrial and manufacturing sector, and it is now very certain that anyone left behind in the application of AI in their business will be left behind or out of business in the manufacturing sector.

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If AI-powered machines were not of high importance and didn’t bring much to the table, they wouldn’t have been in such high demand.  AI brings more advantages to the industrial sector than relying on human labor.  Freeing up manpower for tasks of creation and critical thinking in favor of handing off menial, repetitive, or laborious tasks to AI is the direction most big industries and organizations are taking. In the industrial sector, AI-powered machines have already been outperforming and replacing humans in hard labour works for some time now. Although it is currently happening earlier than expected, the next big shift of AI is now to the simple office-oriented and blue-collar jobs.  Machines may be better in menial and repetitive office work as they could be more responsive to the needs and desires of the respective customers and organizations.   It used to be thought that this is a type of job will take a very long time for AI-powered machines to master, but with the current trend it has now become more accessible by AI.  Estimates have proven that this is happening at a very high pace and examples can be seen and noted in several big tech organization like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. All of this has proven that AI machines are of much better advantage to organizations and might certainly replace the human force in a lot of working sectors, be it health, education or even the science and tech industry itself as machines capable of coding take over from the human programmers in the future.  Assigning less desirable work to automation would free humans to pursue more creative, artistic, fulfilling, and rewarding endeavours. 

      

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By Rose H.

Birnin Gwari, Nigeria

https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/~01c713af4930ddafe7/

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