The Artificial Intelligence tutorial provides an introduction to AI which will help you to understand the concepts behind Artificial Intelligence. In this tutorial, we have also discussed various popular topics such as History of AI, applications of AI, deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing, Reinforcement learning, Q-learning, Intelligent agents, Various search algorithms, etc.

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In today's world, technology is growing very fast, and we are getting in touch with different new technologies day by day.

Here, one of the booming technologies of computer science is Artificial Intelligence which is ready to create a new revolution in the world by making intelligent machines.The Artificial Intelligence is now all around us. It is currently working with a variety of subfields, ranging from general to specific, such as self-driving cars, playing chess, proving theorems, playing music, Painting, etc.

AI is one of the fascinating and universal fields of Computer science which has a great scope in future. AI holds a tendency to cause a machine to work as a human.

Artificial Intelligence is composed of two words Artificial and Intelligence, where Artificial defines "man-made," and intelligence defines "thinking power", hence AI means "a man-made thinking power."

So, we can define AI as:

Artificial Intelligence exists when a machine can have human based skills such as learning, reasoning, and solving problems

With Artificial Intelligence you do not need to preprogram a machine to do some work, despite that you can create a machine with programmed algorithms which can work with own intelligence, and that is the awesomeness of AI.

It is believed that AI is not a new technology, and some people says that as per Greek myth, there were Mechanical men in early days which can work and behave like humans.

Before Learning about Artificial Intelligence, we should know that what is the importance of AI and why should we learn it. Following are some main reasons to learn about AI:

Following are the main goals of Artificial Intelligence:

Artificial Intelligence is not just a part of computer science even it's so vast and requires lots of other factors which can contribute to it. To create the AI first we should know that how intelligence is composed, so the Intelligence is an intangible part of our brain which is a combination of Reasoning, learning, problem-solving perception, language understanding, etc.

To achieve the above factors for a machine or software Artificial Intelligence requires the following discipline:

Following are some main advantages of Artificial Intelligence:

Every technology has some disadvantages, and thesame goes for Artificial intelligence. Being so advantageous technology still, it has some disadvantages which we need to keep in our mind while creating an AI system. Following are the disadvantages of AI:

Before learning about Artificial Intelligence, you must have the fundamental knowledge of following so that you can understand the concepts easily:

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It has been observed by many that we are at the dawn of the next industrial revolution: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution. The benefits delivered by this intelligence revolution will be many: in medicine, improved diagnostics and precision treatment, better weather forecasting, and self-driving vehicles to name a few. However, one of the costs of this revolution is going to be increased electrical consumption by the data centers that will power it. Data center power usage is projected to double over the next 10 years and is on track to consume 11% of worldwide electricity by 2030. Beyond AI adoption, other drivers of this trend are the movement to the cloud and increased power usage of CPUs, GPUs and other server components, which are becoming more powerful and smart.

AIs two basic elements, training and inference, each consume power differently. Training involves computationally intensive matrix operations over very large data sets, often measured in terabytes to petabytes. Examples of these data sets can range from online sales data to captured video feeds to ultra-high-resolution images of tumors. AI inference is computationally much lighter in nature, but can run indefinitely as a service, which draws a lot of power when hit with a large number of requests. Think of a facial recognition application for security in an office building. It runs continuously but would stress the compute and storage resources at 8:00am and again at 5:00pm as people come and go to work.

However, getting a good handle on power usage in AI is difficult. Energy consumption is not part of standard metrics tracked by job schedulers and while it can be set up, it is complicated and vendor dependent. This means that most users are flying blind when it comes to energy usage.

To map out AI energy requirements, Dr. Miro Hodak led a team of Lenovo engineers and researchers, which looked at the energy cost of an often-used AI workload. The study, Towards Power Efficiency in Deep Learning on Data Center Hardware, (registration required) was recently presented at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and was published in the conference proceedings. This work looks at the energy cost of training ResNet50 neural net with ImageNet dataset of more than 1.3 million images on a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR670 server equipped with 4 Nvidia V100 GPUs. AC data from the servers power supply, indicates that 6.3 kWh of energy, enough to power an average home for six hours, is needed to fully train this AI model. In practice, trainings like these are repeated multiple times to tune the resulting models, resulting in energy costs that are actually several times higher.

The study breaks down the total energy into its components as shown in Fig. 1. As expected, the bulk of the energy is consumed by the GPUs. However, given that the GPUs handle all of the computationally intensive parts, the 65% share of energy is lower than expected. This shows that simplistic estimates of AI energy costs using only GPU power are inaccurate and miss significant contributions from the rest of the system. Besides GPUs, CPU and memory account for almost quarter of the energy use and 9% of energy is spent on AC to DC power conversion (this is within line of 80 PLUS Platinum certification of SR670 PSUs).

The study also investigated ways to decrease energy cost by system tuning without changing the AI workload. We found that two types of system settings make most difference: UEFI settings and GPU OS-level settings. ThinkSystem servers provides four UEFI running modes: Favor Performance, Favor Energy, Maximum Performance and Minimum Power. As shown in Table 1, the last option is the best and provides up to 5% energy savings. On the GPU side, 16% of energy can be saved by capping V100 frequency to 1005 MHz as shown in Figure 2. Taking together, our study showed that system tunings can decrease energy usage by 22% while increasing runtime by 14%. Alternatively, if this runtime cost is unacceptable, a second set of tunings, which save 18% of energy while increasing time by only 4%, was also identified. This demonstrates that there is lot of space on system side for improvements in energy efficiency.

Energy usage in HPC has been a visible challenge for over a decade, and Lenovo has long been a leader in energy efficient computing. Whether through our innovative Neptune liquid-cooled system designs, or through Energy-Aware Runtime (EAR) software, a technology developed in collaboration with Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). EAR analyzes user applications to find optimum CPU frequencies to run them at. For now, EAR is CPU-only, but investigations into extending it to GPUs are ongoing. Results of our study show that that is a very promising way to bring energy savings to both HPC and AI.

Enterprises are not used to grappling with the large power profiles that AI requires, the way HPC users have become accustomed. Scaling out these AI solutions will only make that problem more acute. The industry is beginning to respond. MLPerf, currently the leading collaborative project for AI performance evaluation, is preparing new specifications for power efficiency. For now, it is limited to inference workloads and will most likely be voluntary, but it represents a step in the right direction.

So, in order to enjoy those precise weather forecasts and self-driven cars, well need to solve the power challenges they create. Today, as the power profile of CPUs and GPUs surges ever upward, enterprise customers face a choice between three factors: system density (the number of servers in a rack), performance and energy efficiency. Indeed, many enterprises are accustomed to filling up rack after rack with low cost, adequately performing systems that have limited to no impact on the electric bill. Unfortunately, until the power dilemma is solved, those users must be content with choosing only two of those three factors.

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Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the worlds most sophisticated learning systemthe mind of a baby.

Gurgling infants might seem like no match for artificial intelligence. They are terrible at labeling images, hopeless at mining text, and awful at videogames. Then again, babies can do things beyond the reach of any AI. By just a few months old, they've begun to grasp the foundations of language, such as grammar. They've started to understand how the physical world works, how to adapt to unfamiliar situations.

Yet even experts like Spelke don't understand precisely how babiesor adults, for that matterlearn. That gap points to a puzzle at the heart of modern artificial intelligence: We're not sure what to aim for.

Consider one of the most impressive examples of AI, AlphaZero, a program that plays board games with superhuman skill. After playing thousands of games against itself at hyperspeed, and learning from winning positions, AlphaZero independently discovered several famous chess strategies and even invented new ones. It certainly seems like a machine eclipsing human cognitive abilities. But AlphaZero needs to play millions more games than a person during practice to learn a game. Most tellingly, it cannot take what it has learned from the game and apply it to another area.

To some members of the AI priesthood, that calls for a new approach. What makes human intelligence special is its adaptabilityits power to generalize to never-seen-before situations, says Franois Chollet, a well-known AI engineer and the creator of Keras, a widely used framework for deep learning. In a November research paper, he argued that it's misguided to measure machine intelligence solely according to its skills at specific tasks. Humans don't start out with skills; they start out with a broad ability to acquire new skills, he says. What a strong human chess player is demonstrating isn't the ability to play chess per se, but the potential to acquire any task of a similar difficulty. That's a very different capability.

Chollet posed a set of problems designed to test an AI program's ability to learn in a more generalized way. Each problem requires arranging colored squares on a grid based on just a few prior examples. It's not hard for a person. But modern machine-learning programstrained on huge amounts of datacannot learn from so few examples. As of late April, more than 650 teams had signed up to tackle the challenge; the best AI systems were getting about 12 percent correct.

A self-driving car cannot intuit from common sense what will happen if a truck spills its load.

It isn't yet clear how humans solve these problems, but Spelke's work offers a few clues. For one thing, it suggests that humans are born with an innate ability to quickly learn certain things, like what a smile means or what happens when you drop something. It also suggests we learn a lot from each other. One recent experiment showed that 3-month-olds appear puzzled when someone grabs a ball in an inefficient way, suggesting that they already appreciate that people cause changes in their environment. Even the most sophisticated and powerful AI systems on the market can't grasp such concepts. A self-driving car, for instance, cannot intuit from common sense what will happen if a truck spills its load.

Josh Tenenbaum, a professor in MIT's Center for Brains, Minds & Machines, works closely with Spelke and uses insights from cognitive science as inspiration for his programs. He says much of modern AI misses the bigger picture, likening it to a Victorian-era satire about a two-dimensional world inhabited by simple geometrical people. We're sort of exploring Flatlandonly some dimensions of basic intelligence, he says. Tenenbaum believes that, just as evolution has given the human brain certain capabilities, AI programs will need a basic understanding of physics and psychology in order to acquire and use knowledge as efficiently as a baby. And to apply this knowledge to new situations, he says, they'll need to learn in new waysfor example, by drawing causal inferences rather than simply finding patterns. At some pointyou know, if you're intelligentyou realize maybe there's something else out there, he says.

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Artificial intelligence-based techniques, used to reconstruct medical images, may actually be leading to incorrect diagnoses.

Thats according to the results of a new investigation, led by experts at the University of Cambridge. Scientists there devised a series of tests to assess such imaging reconstruction and discovered numerous artefacts and other errors, according to their study, published May 11 in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This issue seemed to persist across different types of AI, they noted, and may not be easily remedied.

"There's been a lot of enthusiasm about AI in medical imaging, and it may well have the potential to revolutionize modern medicine; however, there are potential pitfalls that must not be ignored," co-author Anders Hansen, PhD, from Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, said in a statement. "We've found that AI techniques are highly unstable in medical imaging, so that small changes in the input may result in big changes in the output."

To reach their conclusions, Hansen and coinvestigatorsfrom Norway, Portugal, Canada and the United Kingdomused several assessments to pinpoint flaws in AI algorithms. They targeted CT, MR and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, and tested them based on instabilities tied to movement, small structural changes, and those related to the number of samples.

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Rabindranath Tagore once said, Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. The darkness that looms over the world at this moment is the curse of the COVID-19 pandemic, while the bird of human freedom finds itself caged under lockdown, unable to fly. Enthused by the beacon of hope, human beings will soon start picking up the pieces of a shared future for humanity, but perhaps, it will only be to find a new, unfamiliar world order with far-reaching consequences for us that transcend society, politics and economy.

Crucially, a technology that had till now been crawling or at best, walking slowly will now start sprinting. In fact, a paradigm shift in the economic relationship of mankind is going to be witnessed in the form of accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the modes of production of goods and services. A fourth Industrial Revolution as the AI-era is referred to has already been experienced before the pandemic with the backward linkages of cloud computing and big data. However, the imperative of continued social distancing has made an AI-driven economic world order todays reality.

Setting aside the oft-discussed prophecies of the Robo-Human tussle, even if we simply focus on the present pandemic context, we will see millions of students accessing their education through ed-tech apps, mothers buying groceries on apps too and making cashless payments through fintech platforms, and employees attending video conferences on relevant apps as well: All this isnt new phenomena, but the scale at which they are happening is unparalleled in human history. The alternate universe of AI, machine learning, cloud computing, big data, 5G and automation is getting closer to us every day. And so is a clash between humans (labour) and robots (plant and machinery).

This clash might very well be fuelled by automation. Any Luddite will recall the misadventures of the 19th-century textile mills. However, the automation that we are talking about now is founded on the citadel of artificially intelligent robots. Eventually, this might merge the two factors of production into one, thereby making labour irrelevant. As factories around the world start to reboot post COVID-19, there will be hard realities to contend with: Shortage of migrant labourers in the entire gamut of the supply chain, variations of social distancing induced by the fears of a second virus wave and the overall health concerns of humans at work. All this combined could end up sparking the fire of automation, resulting in subsequent job losses and possible reallocation/reskilling of human resources.

In this context, a potential counter to such employment upheavals is the idea of cash transfers to the population in the form of Universal Basic Income (UBI). As drastic changes in the production processes lead to a more cost-effective and efficient modern industrial landscape, the surplus revenue that is subsequently earned by the state would act as a major source of funds required by the government to run UBI. Variants of basic income transfer schemes have existed for a long time and have been deployed to unprecedented levels during this pandemic. Keynesian macroeconomic measures are increasingly being seen as the antidote to the bedridden economies around the world, suffering from near-recession due to the sudden ban on economic activities. Governments would have to be innovative enough to pump liquidity into the system to boost demand without harming the fiscal discipline. But what separates UBI from all these is its universality, while others remain targeted.

This new economic world order would widen the cracks of existing geopolitical fault lines particularly between US and China, two behemoths of the AI realm. Datanomics has taken such a high place in the valuation spectre that the most valued companies of the world are the tech giants like Apple, Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Tencent etc. Interestingly, they are also the ones who are at the forefront of AI innovations. Data has become the new oil. What transports data are not pipelines but fibre optic cables and associated communication technologies. The ongoing fight over the introduction of 5G technology central to automation and remote command-control architecture might see a new phase of hostility, especially after the controversial role played by the secretive Chinese state in the COVID-19 crisis.

The issues affecting common citizens privacy, national security, rising inequality will take on newer dimensions. It is pertinent to mention that AI is not all bad: As an imperative change that the human civilisation is going to experience, it has its advantages. Take the COVID-19 crisis as an example. Amidst all the chaos, big data has enabled countries to do contact tracing effectively, and 3D printers produced the much-needed PPEs at local levels in the absence of the usual supply chains. That is why the World Economic Forum (WEF) argues that agility, scalability and automation will be the buzzwords for this new era of business, and those who have these capabilities will be the winners.

But there are losers in this, too. In this case, the developing world would be the biggest loser. The problem of inequality, which has already reached epic proportions, could be further worsened in an AI-driven economic order. The need of the hour is to prepare ourselves and develop strategies that would mitigate such risks and avert any impending humanitarian disaster. To do so, in the words of computer scientist and entrepreneur Kai-Fu Lee, the author of AI Superpowers, we have to give centrality to our heart and focus on the care economy which is largely unaccounted for in the national narrative.

(The writer is assistant commissioner of income tax, IRS. Views are personal)

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Pune, May 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global patent analytics market size is predicted to USD 1,668.4 million by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 12.4% during the forecast period. The increasing advancement and integration of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the neural network by enterprises will have a positive impact on the market during the forecast period. Moreover, the growing needs of companies to protect intellectual assets will bolster healthy growth of the market in the forthcoming years, states Fortune Business Insights in a report, titled Patent Analytics Market Size, Share and Industry Analysis, By Component (Solutions and Services), By Services (Patent Landscapes/White Space Analysis, Patent Strategy and Management, Patent Valuation, Patent Support, Patent Analytics, and Others), By Enterprise Size (Large Enterprises, Small & Medium Enterprises), By Industry (IT and Telecommunications, Healthcare, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), Automotive, Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverages and, Others), and Regional Forecast, 2020-2027 the market size stood at USD 657.9 million in 2019. The rapid adoption of the Intellectual Property (IP) system to retain an innovation-based advantage in business will aid the expansion of the market.

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Integration of Artificial Intelligence to Improve Market Prospects

The implementation of artificial intelligence technology for analyzing patent data will support the expansion of the market. AI-based semantic search uses an artificial neural network to enhance patent discovery by improving accuracy and efficiency. For instance, in February 2018, PatSeer announced the unveiling of ReleSense, an AI-driven NLP engine. The engine utilizes 12 million+ semantic rules to gain from publically available patents, scientific journals, clinical trials, and associated data sources. ReleSense with its wide range of AI-driven capabilities offers search from classification, via APIs and predictive-analytics for apt IP solutions. The growing application of AI for domain-specific analytics will augur well for the market in the forthcoming years. Furthermore, the growing government initiatives to promote patent filing activities will boost the patent analytics market share during the forecast period. For instance, the Government of India introduced a new scheme named Innovative/ Creative India, to aware people of the patents and IP laws and support patent analytics. In addition, the growing preferment for language model and neural network intelligence for accurate, deep, and complete data insights will encourage the market.

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Implementation of Advanced Technologies to Promote Growth in North America

The market in North America stood at USD 209.2 million and is expected to grow rapidly during the forecast period owing to the presence of major companies in the US such as IBM Corporation, Amazon.Com, Inc. The implementation of advanced technologies including IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence by major companies will aid growth in the region.

Considering this the U.S. is expected to showcase a higher growth in the patent filing. As per the World Intellectual Property, in 2018, the U.S. filed 230,085 patent applications across several domains. Asia Pacific is predicted to witness tremendous growth during the forecast period. The growth is attributed to China, which accounts for a major share in the global patent filings. According to WIPO, intellectual property (IP) office in China had accounted for 46.6% global share in patent registration, in 2018. The growing government initiatives concerning patents and IP laws in India will significantly enable speedy growth in Asia Pacific.

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March 2018: Ipan GmbH announced its collaboration with Patentsight, Corsearch, and Uppdragshuset for the introduction of an open IP platform named IP-x-change platform. The platform enables prior art search, automatic data verification tools, smart docketing tools integrated in real-time to optimize IP management solution.

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From chatbots to Amazon Alexa, artificial intelligence has become a normal part of everyday life that we now take for granted. But now in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, it is being used to save lives.

AI, for example, is at the heart of the NHS track and trace app, which is being trialled in the Isle of Wight before a nationwide rollout. Users of the service input their symptoms into a smartphone, then an algorithm looks at who theyve had contact with and alerts them to the potential risks of catching or spreading the virus.

For Chris Ford, manager of the Smith & Williamson Artificial Intelligence fund, this is a pivotal moment for AI, especially as we are now willing to share our data with the government for the greater good. He argues that the Covid-19 crisis has accelerated the cultural acceptance of AIs role in our lives, from the sudden and widespread use of telemedicine to the use of computers for speedy diagnosis and the search for a vaccine. Theres a renewed focus and vigour that has been absent before in how we approach AI, he says.

But there are misunderstandings about what AI is. Defined by Stanford University as the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, it is now seeping into so many aspects of our lives that a complete definition it is hard to pin down. There is also confusion whether it is good for us, with negative perceptions of "robots taking human jobs" balanced by medical breakthroughs such as discovering new antibiotics and robotic surgery.

Robotics and automation are boom areas of AI the iShares Automation and Robotics ETF (RBOT) has over $2 billion in assets but they are not the game in town, says S&W's Ford. Not all robotics have artificial intelligence, and not all AI platforms are robotic, he says. For investors its been relatively easy to ride the trend by backing big tech firms like Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Google parent company Alphabet (GOOGL), which have invested billions in AI in its many forms.

Many of the pioneers in AI are not on the radar of retail investors, but their work will have a profound impact on our lives. One such area is autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, which Google and Tesla (TSLA) are backing to be the next game-changing technology. With 1.3 million people losing their lives in traffic accidents worldwide every year, 90% of which are down to human error, there is clearly scope for technology to drive better than us. AI has come a long way in recent years in the field of image recognition, which teaches cars how to assess and react to certain hazards.

Image recognition was arguably the most impactful first-wave application of AI technology, argues Xuesong Zhao, manager of the Polar Capital Automation and Artificial Intelligence fund. Tom Riley, co-manager of the Neutral-ratedAxa Framlington Robotech fund agrees, saying that vision systems have come on leaps and bounds recently. He holds JapansKeyence (6861), which develops manufactures automation sensors and vision systems used in the automotive industry. As the dominant player in the machine vision market, the company has a narrow moat from Morningstar analysts.

Modern cars already have some element of AI, particularly in hazard awareness and automatic parking, but Riley says drivers are not yetready for the full hands-off, eyes-off autonomous driving experience. Still, S&W's Ford argues that fully autonomous vehicles may become mainstream sooner than we think, say five to 10 years time, rather than 20.

Some of AIs most high-profile wins to date have been in the medical sphere, and that is where many fund managers are focused. Robots are now routinely used alongside surgeons and Nasdaq-listed Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) makes Da Vinci robots that perform millions of surgical operations every year. The company is the fourth largest holding in the Axa fund.. Axas Riley has positioned around 20% of the fund into the healthcare sector because he thinks it provides useful diversification away from the tech giants.

Ford also owns US firm iRhythm (IRTC), which uses an AI platform to warn people that they are at risk of cardiacarrhythmia, irregular heart movements that can potentially be fatal. He cites this as an example of AI's strength in capturing large amounts of real-time data and improving how it interprets the information.

Away from robotic surgery and self-driving cars, where else do fund managers see future opportunities? Polar CapitalsXuesong thinks natural language processing (NLP) is likely to be the next growth area for AI, although not without its challenges. He thinks that teaching computers to read and analyse documents would be truly transformational in many industries. He cites legal, financial and insurance companies as some of the biggest beneficiaries of this trend in the coming years. For example, complex fraud trials often involve millions of documents having a computer to sift through them would speed up the legal proceedings and keep costs down.

Ford, meanwhile, thinks industries such as mining and oil, which have so far been late adopters of AI, could start to change, and also expects greater use of AI in education. That trend could be accelerated by the Covid-19 crisis, where schools and universities have been forced to go virtual in the lockdown. AI, then, could be a natural next step for students to work semi-independently with tailored curriculums.

AI is only as good as the data on which it stands, Ford says. And with younger people less reticent to share their data than older tech users, AI is only going to improve in the coming years.

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As far as a simple definition, Artificial Intelligence is the ability of a machine or a computer device to imitate human intelligence (cognitive process), secure from experiences, adapt to the most recent data and work people-like-exercises.

Artificial Intelligence executes tasks intelligently that yield in creating enormous accuracy, flexibility, and productivity for the entire system. Tech chiefs are looking for some approaches to implement artificial intelligence technologies into their organizations to draw obstruction and include values, for example, AI is immovably utilized in the banking and media industry. There is a wide arrangement of methods that come in the space of artificial intelligence, for example, linguistics, bias, vision, robotics, planning, natural language processing, decision science, etc. Let us learn about some of the major subfields of AI in depth.

ML is maybe the most applicable subset of AI to the average enterprise today. As clarified in the Executives manual for real-world AI, our recent research report directed by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, ML is a mature innovation that has been around for quite a long time.

ML is a part of AI that enables computers to self-learn from information and apply that learning without human intercession. When confronting a circumstance wherein a solution is covered up in a huge data set, AI is a go-to. ML exceeds expectations at processing that information, extracting patterns from it in a small amount of the time a human would take and delivering in any case out of reach knowledge, says Ingo Mierswa, founder and president of the data science platform RapidMiner. ML powers risk analysis, fraud detection, and portfolio management in financial services; GPS-based predictions in travel and targeted marketing campaigns, to list a few examples.

Joining cognitive science and machines to perform tasks, the neural network is a part of artificial intelligence that utilizes nervous system science ( a piece of biology that worries the nerve and nervous system of the human cerebrum). Imitating the human mind where the human brain contains an unbounded number of neurons and to code brain-neurons into a system or a machine is the thing that the neural network functions.

Neural network and machine learning combinedly tackle numerous intricate tasks effortlessly while a large number of these tasks can be automated. NLTK is your sacred goal library that is utilized in NLP. Ace all the modules in it and youll be a professional text analyzer instantly. Other Python libraries include pandas, NumPy, text blob, matplotlib, wordcloud.

An explainer article by AI software organization Pathmind offers a valuable analogy: Think of a lot of Russian dolls settled within one another. Profound learning is a subset of machine learning and machine learning is a subset of AI, which is an umbrella term for any computer program that accomplishes something smart.

Deep learning utilizes alleged neural systems, which learn from processing the labeled information provided during training and uses this answer key to realize what attributes of the information are expected to build the right yield, as per one clarification given by deep AI. When an adequate number of models have been processed, the neural network can start to process new, inconspicuous sources of info and effectively return precise outcomes.

Deep learning powers product and content recommendations for Amazon and Netflix. It works in the background of Googles voice-and image-recognition algorithms. Its ability to break down a lot of high-dimensional information makes deep learning unmistakably appropriate for supercharging preventive maintenance frameworks

This has risen as an extremely sizzling field of artificial intelligence. A fascinating field of innovative work for the most part focuses around designing and developing robots. Robotics is an interdisciplinary field of science and engineering consolidated with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and numerous others. It decides the designing, producing, operating, and use of robots. It manages computer systems for their control, intelligent results and data change.

Robots are deployed regularly for directing tasks that may be difficult for people to perform consistently. Major robotics tasks included an assembly line for automobile manufacturing, for moving large objects in space by NASA. Artificial intelligence scientists are additionally creating robots utilizing machine learning to set interaction at social levels.

Have you taken a stab at learning another language by labeling the items in your home with the local language and translated words? It is by all accounts a successful vocab developer since you see the words again and again. Same is the situation with computers fueled with computer vision. They learn by labeling or classifying various objects that they go over and handle the implications or decipher, however, at a much quicker pace than people (like those robots in science fiction motion pictures).

The tool OpenCV empowers processing of pictures by applying them to mathematical operations. Recall that elective subject in engineering days called Fluffy Logic? Truly, that approach is utilized in Image processing that makes it a lot simpler for computer vision specialists to fuzzify or obscure the readings that cant be placed in a crisp Yes/No or True/False classification. OpenTLA is utilized for video tracking which is the procedure to find a moving object(s) utilizing a camera video stream.

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The debate on contact-tracing highlights the urgency of tackling unregulated technologies like artificial intelligence (AI). With a strong democracy and reputation for first-class research, Switzerland has the potential to be at the forefront of shaping ethical AI.

What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? "Artificial intelligence is either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity," the prominent scientist, Stephen Hawking, who died in 2018, once said.

An expert group set up by the European Commission presented a draft ofethics guidelinesexternal linkfor trustworthy AI at the end of 2018, but as of yet there is no agreed global strategy for defining common principles, which would include rules on transparency, privacy protection, fairness, and justice.

Thanks to its unique features a strong democracy, its position of neutrality, and world-class research Switzerland is well positioned to play a leading role in shaping the future of AI that adheres toethical standards. The Swiss government recognizes the importance of AI to move the country forward, and with that in mind, has been involved in discussions at the international level.

What is AI?

There is no single accepted definition of Artificial Intelligence. Often, it's divided into two categories, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) which strives to closely replicate human behaviour while Narrow Artificial Intelligence focuses on single tasks, such as face recognition, automated translations and content recommendations, such as videos on YouTube.

However, on the domestic front, the debate has just begun, albeit in earnest as Switzerland and other nations are confronted with privacy concerns surrounding the use of new technologieslike contact-tracing apps, whether they use AI or not, to stop the spread of Covid-19.

The European initiative the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing initiative PEPP-PT advocated a centralized data approach that raised concern about its transparency and governance. However, it was derailed when a number of nations, including Switzerland, decided in favour of a decentralized and privacy-enhancing system, called DP-3T (Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing). The final straw for PEPP-PT was when Germany decided to exit as well.

"Europe has engaged in a vigorous and lively debate over the merits of the centralized and decentralized approach to proximity tracing. This debate has been very beneficial as it made the issues aware to a broad population and demonstrated the high level of concern with which these apps are being designed and constructed. People will use the contact-tracing app only if they feel that they don't have to sacrifice their privacy to get out of isolation," said Jim Larus. Larus is Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL Lausanne and a member of the group that initially started the DP3T effort at EPFL.

According to a recent survey, nearly two-thirds of Swiss citizens said they were in favour of contact tracing. The DP-3T app is currently being tested on a trial basis, while waiting for the definition of the legal conditions for its widespread use, as decided by the Swiss parliament.However, the debate highlights the urgency of answering questions surrounding ethics and governance of unregulated technologies.

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The "Swiss way"

Artificial intelligence was included for the first time in the Swiss government's strategy to create the right conditions to accelerate the digital transformation of society.

Last December, a working group delivered its report to the Federal Council (executive body) called the "Challenges of Artificial Intelligence". The report stated that Switzerland was ready to exploit the potential of AI, but the authors decided not to specifically highlight the ethical issues and social dimension of AI, focusing instead on various AI use cases and the arising challenges.

"In Switzerland, the central government does not impose an overarching ethical vision for AI. It would be incompatible with our democratic traditions if the government prescribed this top-down," Daniel Egloff, Head of Innovation of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) told swissinfo.ch. Egloff added that absolute ethical principles are difficult to establish since they could change from one technological context to another. "An ethical vision for AI is emerging in consultations among national and international stakeholders, including the public, and the government is taking an active role in this debate," he added.

Seen in a larger context, the government insists it is very involved internationally when it comes to discussions on ethics and human rights. Ambassador Thomas Schneider, Director of International Affairs at the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), told swissinfo.ch that Switzerland in this regard "is one of the most active countries in the Council of Europe, in the United Nations and other fora". He also added that it's OFCOM's and the Foreign Ministry's ambition to turn Geneva into a global centre of technology governance.

Just another buzzword?

How is it possible then to define what's ethical or unethical when it comes to technology? According to Pascal Kaufmann, neuroscientist and founder of theMindfire Foundationexternal linkfor human-centric AI, the concept of ethics applied to AI is just another buzzword: "There is a lot of confusion on the meaning of AI. What many call 'AI' has little to do with Intelligence and much more with brute force computing. That's why it makes little sense to talk about ethical AI. In order to be ethical, I suggest to hurry up and create AI for the people rather than for autocratic governments or for large tech companies.Inventing ethical policies doesn't get us anywhere and will not help us create AI.''

Anna Jobin, a postdoc at the Health Ethics and Policy Lab at the ETH Zurich, doesn't see it the same way. Based on her research, she believes that ethical considerations should be part of the development of AI: "We cannot treat AI as purely technological and add some ethics at the end, but ethical and social aspects need to be included in the discussion from the beginning." Because AI's impact on our daily lives will only grow, Jobin thinks that citizens need to be engaged in debates on new technologies that use AI and that decisions about AI should include civil society. However, she also recognizes the limits of listing ethical principles if there is a lack of ethical governance.

For Peter Seele, professor of Business Ethics at USI, the University of Italian-speaking Switzerland, the key to resolving these issues is to place business, ethics, and law on an equal footing. "Businesses are attracted by regulations. They need a legal framework to prosper. Good laws that align business and ethics create the ideal environment for all actors," he said. The challenge is to find a balance between the three pillars.

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Even if the Swiss approach mainly relies on self-regulation, Seele argues that establishing a legal framework would give a significant impulse to the economy and society.

If Switzerland were to take a lead role in defining ethical standards, its political system based on direct democracy and democratically controlled cooperatives could play a central role in laying the foundation for the democratization of AI and the personal data economy. As the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATWsuggested in a whitepaper at the end of 2019, the model for that could be the SwissMIDATAexternal link, a nonprofit cooperative that ensures citizens' sovereignty over the use of their data, acting as a trustee for data collection. Owners of a data account can become members of MIDATA, participating in the democratic governance of the cooperative. They can also allow selective access to their personal data for clinical studies and medical research purposes.

The emergence of an open data ecosystem fostering the participation of civil society is raising awareness of the implications of the use of personal data, especially for health reasons, as in the case of the contact-tracing app. Even if it's argued that the favoured decentralized system does a better job preserving fundamental rights than a centralized approach, there are concerns about susceptibility to cyber attacks.

The creation of a legal basis for AI could ignite a public debate on the validity and ethics of digital systems.

Frida Polli is a neuroscientist and co-founder of pymetrics, an AI-based job matching platform based in the United States.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably the most exciting field in robotics. It's certainly the most controversial: Everybody agrees that a robot can work in an assembly line, but there's no consensus on whether a robot can ever be intelligent.

Like the term "robot" itself, artificial intelligence is hard to define. Ultimate AI would be a recreation of the human thought process -- a man-made machine with our intellectual abilities. This would include the ability to learn just about anything, the ability to reason, the ability to use language and the ability to formulate original ideas. Roboticists are nowhere near achieving this level of artificial intelligence, but they have made a lot of progress with more limited AI. Today's AI machines can replicate some specific elements of intellectual ability.

Computers can already solve problems in limited realms. The basic idea of AI problem-solving is very simple, though its execution is complicated. First, the AI robot or computer gathers facts about a situation through sensors or human input. The computer compares this information to stored data and decides what the information signifies. The computer runs through various possible actions and predicts which action will be most successful based on the collected information. Of course, the computer can only solve problems it's programmed to solve -- it doesn't have any generalized analytical ability. Chess computers are one example of this sort of machine.

Some modern robots also have the ability to learn in a limited capacity. Learning robots recognize if a certain action (moving its legs in a certain way, for instance) achieved a desired result (navigating an obstacle). The robot stores this information and attempts the successful action the next time it encounters the same situation. Again, modern computers can only do this in very limited situations. They can't absorb any sort of information like a human can. Some robots can learn by mimicking human actions. In Japan, roboticists have taught a robot to dance by demonstrating the moves themselves.

Some robots can interact socially. Kismet, a robot at M.I.T's Artificial Intelligence Lab, recognizes human body language and voice inflection and responds appropriately. Kismet's creators are interested in how humans and babies interact, based only on tone of speech and visual cue. This low-level interaction could be the foundation of a human-like learning system.

Kismet and other humanoid robots at the M.I.T. AI Lab operate using an unconventional control structure. Instead of directing every action using a central computer, the robots control lower-level actions with lower-level computers. The program's director, Rodney Brooks, believes this is a more accurate model of human intelligence. We do most things automatically; we don't decide to do them at the highest level of consciousness.

The real challenge of AI is to understand how natural intelligence works. Developing AI isn't like building an artificial heart -- scientists don't have a simple, concrete model to work from. We do know that the brain contains billions and billions of neurons, and that we think and learn by establishing electrical connections between different neurons. But we don't know exactly how all of these connections add up to higher reasoning, or even low-level operations. The complex circuitry seems incomprehensible.

Because of this, AI research is largely theoretical. Scientists hypothesize on how and why we learn and think, and they experiment with their ideas using robots. Brooks and his team focus on humanoid robots because they feel that being able to experience the world like a human is essential to developing human-like intelligence. It also makes it easier for people to interact with the robots, which potentially makes it easier for the robot to learn.

Just as physical robotic design is a handy tool for understanding animal and human anatomy, AI research is useful for understanding how natural intelligence works. For some roboticists, this insight is the ultimate goal of designing robots. Others envision a world where we live side by side with intelligent machines and use a variety of lesser robots for manual labor, health care and communication. A number of robotics experts predict that robotic evolution will ultimately turn us into cyborgs -- humans integrated with machines. Conceivably, people in the future could load their minds into a sturdy robot and live for thousands of years!

In any case, robots will certainly play a larger role in our daily lives in the future. In the coming decades, robots will gradually move out of the industrial and scientific worlds and into daily life, in the same way that computers spread to the home in the 1980s.

The best way to understand robots is to look at specific designs. The links below will show you a variety of robot projects around the world.

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