These 5 apps will help you dip your toes into the world of Artificial Intelligence – Mashable SE Asia

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) will one day integrate into human lives.

While some of us are worried this form of technology will take over many jobs, its also being used to enhance currently existing technology.

But for those of you that still dont understand the potential of what AI can do, here are some tools and games you can try on your web browser.

Sometimes when youre playing the piano, you might wish that you could perform a duet with someone else, only to realize that the people around you are tone deaf and should never touch a musical instrument.

The good news is there's a program called A.I. Duet that can listen to the notes youre playing and try to follow up with its own tunes.

It works best when youre playing a real song and not just some random notes. The application even allows you to plug in a MIDI keyboard for a full-on duet experience.

If you love Netflixs Stranger Things and want more of it in your life, youre in for a treat.

Neural network developer David Arcus uses AI that can take an image and turn it into a Stranger Things-like poster. It can also understand whats on the image that youve uploaded and change the title of the show into something like Stranger Public Speaking, Stranger Personal Protective Equipment, and more.

The A.I. seems to use the same design for each image, only with a few differences in the positioning. But its quite impressive that it knows how to pick up on the correct context in the picture.

It also makes for a great profile picture for your social media accounts.

Google has a wide variety of AI experiments for anyone to try.

One of them is called Quick, Draw. A Pictionary game where you have to draw a picture, while AI tries to guess what you've drawn.

The program is connected to a data set of 50 million doodles from which it learns terrible drawings and works of art. It tries to combine both these skill levels and use them as a reference to what youre drawing. The cool part about this program: It will show you which doodles it used as a reference to guess your drawings.

If you're a master doodler, you can contribute to the drawings by uploading it to the doodle data set, which in turn, will improve the AI's guessing feature.

Moving away from fun and games, lets look at some tools that use AI to help those in need.

One of the best accessibility apps that Ive ever seen is the Seeing AI phone application from Microsoft. Seeing AI, to put it simply, is an app that narrates the world around you.

Just point the camera at literally anything, and the app will give you a context of whats around you. It has multiple features built-in, like text dictation and scene identification. It can even read banknotes.

Sadly, Seeing AI is only available on iOS, and Microsoft currently has no plans to release it on Android.

Yes, Im talking about Google Assistant and Siri for Android and iOS, respectively.

These virtual assistants are your training wheels when getting into the world of A.I. Even for those who have disabilities, Google Assistant and Siri have come a long way in making life better and smarter.

While some might argue that Google Assistant is more superior, nevertheless, both can make calls, play music, answer questions, and control your smart home appliances. Ill admit, Google does have the upper hand when it comes to smart assistants with their Google Duplex feature.

It can make calls and appointments on your behalf. It mimics the voice and tone of a real human when speaking with the person on the other end. It can even use filler words like 'mm-hmm' to add to the human-like experience.

I dont think we should fear the impending doom of AI taking over our jobs. I believe it will be here to enhance our lives and daily tasks. As is evident above. they can be fun and helpful too.

Cover image sourced from Laughing Squid and Microsoft.

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