What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
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What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
The ability of machines to think, learn, and make decisions, like a human being, when faced with different scenarios, is known as artificial intelligence.
How does AI work?
Artificial intelligence (AI) includes machine learning and deep learning, both of which consist of several algorithms to cater to the different use cases. These algorithms work on huge amounts of data collected from various sources, sorted, transformed, and pre-processed for feeding into the algorithms. The algorithms use data to train, get feedback, and improve themselves, until a desirable result is achieved.
Why is artificial intelligence important?
AI is important as it can enable automation of mundane and repetitive tasks, improve efficiency, reduce human errors, provide predictive analytics for faster and more accurate decision making, provide personalized recommendations for users, assist in diagnosis of diseases, accelerate research in medicine and science, and promote innovation.
When was AI invented?
The idea of AI can be traced back to ancient history. However, the official term was given by computer scientist John McCarthy in 1956, which marked the birth of AI as an academic field. Around the 1950s and 1960s, computers were able to solve mathematical and logical problems, and play chess with humans.
What are the types of AI?
The two basic types of AI are narrow AI and strong AI. Narrow AI includes reactive machines and limited memory machines, whereas strong AI is more advanced, the most recent type being the generative AI. It gives machines the power of generating images, audios, text, and videos.
What is an artificial intelligence example?
The most recent and popular example of AI is ChatGPT, which can respond to questions asked by humans through typing, with a very human speech-like answer. It can also remember the context of the conversation. ChatGPT is trained on a large language model and further enriched by augmentation. MongoDB Atlas provides a great platform to build powerful generative AI apps using any major cloud provider.
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