As the name suggests, AI means intelligence demonstrated by machines. Nowadays tech giant companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Alibaba are using AI technology to reach maximum people with less human help. AI has an enormous amount of applications in the field of robotics, military, medical diagnosis, and remote sensing. In AI, machines try to mimic human intelligence called artificial neurons, the mathematical model of biological neurons. In 1943, Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts came up with a revolutionary idea. They were the first to propose the mathematical model of a biological neuron – Artificial Neuron (AN). After one decade, this model was successfully tested in ‘Ferranti mark 1’ computer, and code wrote for this purpose was the first AI program. This encouraged many programmers and computer scientists. Around the 1980s, Artificial Neuron turned into Artificial Neural Network (ANN). ANN was able to handle much more complex tasks that a single AN cannot handle. Continuous research and development led to the improvement in this model.
Consequently, in 1999, Sony introduced AIBO, the first domestic robot. Currently, we have well developed ANN model, powerful supercomputers, and many data centers. With this tremendous computational power, many tech giant companies are trying to mimic the human brain, the most complex thing known in the universe! (e.g. Google Brain). Google is the world-leading company in the field of AI. Google has released the TensorFlow library, which is free and open-source. Using TensorFlow, people are creating some interesting projects, which are useful in their daily life and business.
The future goals of AI are like science fantasy. If researchers are successful, then in the future most of our work will be done by robots only. I think AI will revolutionize the healthcare sector the most, as AI is able to classify the symptoms of the disease quickly. One more exciting application of AI is in agriculture. AI technology can monitor the crops and soil. If it finds any unwanted crop or bug, it will spray pesticides. This will save a lot of time and increase productivity. AI technology has endless possibilities. Let’s see what happens in the next few years.