Benefits and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence

The provided essay discusses the increasing use of artificial intelligence in today's world and its beneficial effects on organizations and individuals across different sectors. It highlights various applications of AI that have made human work easier and notes some side effects such as decreasing job opportunities.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Artificial Intelligence is playing a major role today in individuals lives as well as in
business. It is a simple way of making machines and computers thinking intelligently in a similar
way as humans. It has helped humans is many ways by simplifying their jobs and helping in
making predictions and taking decisions( Russell and Norvig., 2016 ). In this essay Artificial
intelligence and its applications will be explained and how it will benefit the future. It will also
be discussed that whether Artificial intelligence is a threat or an aid for the future with different
set of examples.
MAIN BODY
Artificial intelligence can simply be defined as intelligence demonstrated by computers
or machines. Machines or computer systems which can perform human task quickly and
accurately like speech recognition, different language translations, learning, knowledge
representation, visual perception, decision making and many more is artificial intelligence. Main
goal of AI is to create new technologies that allow machines and computer systems which
functions intelligently creating human work easy. AI is used in different fields making it easy for
humans to perform a particular task more easily and accurately. For example: Nowadays
Supercomputers are used by many organizations for various tasks like weather forecasting,
forecasting any natural disaster like earthquack etc. Nowadays AI systems are trying to surpass
human performance in solving various tasks and trying to teach them various things via machine
learning. Machine learning is a part of Artificial intelligence which learns from experiences or
previous data stored and make predictions based on the current existing data( Nilsson., 2014 ).
Artificial intelligence has affected every business, industry, city, consumers even
households in many possible ways, out of which few of them are: Automobile industry: this
industry has been affected in a better way as many vehicles in present are designed and are based
upon Artificial Intelligence. As it is already seen that nowadays many companies are trying to
create self driven cars however they do need a driver to control them. There is no doubt that in
future there will be self driven cars without any drivers. Recently Google has tried to create a self
driven car which do not need any driver or anyone else to control them. Today cars can also get
connected to many mobile applications like Apple Siri or google maps or GPS through which
cars can be driven directly towards any destinations without anyone's assistance( Charniak and
et.al., 2014 ). People can even travel anywhere anytime with the help of these devices installed in
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the cars without getting lost. For example today only four wheeler vehicles like google waymo
are designed for self drive, maybe in future trucks can also be designed for self drive.
Art: Nowadays many creative applications have been developed which uses productive visual
art. There are many software's which provide a platform and different tools through which
sketching, painting, drawing has been made easy. It has also helped in creating designs or
architecture of any building etc. there are many professional tools or software which are used by
organizations for designing any product or building or anything else( Zang and et.al., 2015 ).
Machine Learning: Artificial intelligence complete any task and machine learning is a subset of
it which enables machines to learn with the specific data present in the systems. With this
technology computers can automatically learn from, the data present and experiences without
any human interactions can be used in various purposes like prediction of any natural hazard in
time so that people can be warned and can get prepared for it. These data can be used for
business security systems which can secure any sensitive information. Deep learning is
implemented in machine learning. It can also be used to solve many important problems like
recognition of any image and sound. It cal also be used to predict any sales or services so that
they can make marketing actions for any business more easy and beneficial. Artificial
intelligence has also helped people to learn or translate any new or difficult language easily. If
any data is to be converted into any other language then it can be done easily and more
efficiently. It has also helped organizations to print any booklet or instruction manual in different
languages and that data is reliable and accurate and can be done without being cross
verified( Nourani and et.al., 2014 ).
Internet of things: If any artificial intelligence system is connected to internet then it can be
useful for anyone in various ways and can be of greater use in the future. Today it is used in
home for making it smart home like it is used to automate many things like switching on and off
any application or installing security systems in home or monitoring home with the help of
security systems. It simply senses, analyses the data and then transmits that data to other devices
to act. In future it can also be used to in taking precise and right decisions in real time. Like
today houses can only be monitored but maybe in future if any action is needed to be taken then
it can be done( Cohen and Feigenbaum., 2014 ).
Simplifying Hazardous Jobs: Artificial intelligence is also making dangerous and hazardous
jobs done easily like bomb defusing which can be monitored and done more easily using
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technologies. Maybe in future Artificial Intelligence enabled robots can be used for doing these
jobs without risking any human lives.
Diagnosis: Nowadays many devices and technologies are innovated which can be used in
medical field for diagnosing untreatable or any complicated disease like cancer or heart diseases.
It has helped medical field to diagnose these diseases at a much early stage so that they can be
cured. AI has helped doctors to diagnose, understand cause and then start treatment of the
diseases to be cured. Today many applications are being created through which people can detect
their diseases themselves by entering their disease symptoms for any common disease like cough
or cold or viral etc.
Gaming: It has advanced gaming or computer graphics( Strong., 2016 ). Today computer based
modelling is done of many human player games like Chess, monopoly etc. these games
nowadays can be played in mobiles or laptops with one player as computer. These games are
designed in such a way that it can be played with anyone where one wins and another loses.
Computer Graphics or superimposing has also been made easy with the help of AI For example:
animated movies. Many 3-D games like play-station have also been developed through which
creates a 3-D environment for players where they can feel and play the game as if they are
actually in that environment. These games can be played online also with players from different
countries.
Personal assistants: There has been a sudden risen of personal assistant devices or software
which operated and give results on voice commands like Alexa or Siri For example if Alexa is
commanded to read the latest news then it will start reading all the current news for the user. It
makes users work easy and saves time( Dilek, Çakır and Aydın., 2015 ).
Other: There has been development of any other technologies like face recognition or Facial
unlock through which users can unlock their social media accounts or their mobile phones
through face recognition software, with the help of these softwares users can securely login or
logout with their accounts or devices without any threat of any other person to unlock it. AI has
also helped people to communicate with each other through video calls from any part of the
world. It has also helped organizations to store their huge amount of data securely and has given
them access to use that data whenever and wherever they want. It has also helped business in
making financial audit statements by doing continuous audit, it can analyse many sets of
information immediately which will reduce audit risk, increase assurance level and save time .
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Artificial intelligence has affected human lives in many ways and will have a huge effect
in the future. It has already affected the way of living of everyone and will affect their future in
many ways which will have a positive effect on living but will also have some side effects on
jobs, standard of living, health etc.
Today artificial intelligence has helped supermarkets to improve their surveillance system
to that they can increase monitoring and security of their stores and many improvements have
been going on( Eisenstadt, Keane and Rajan., 2018 ). In future many new technologies can be
introduced like mood monitor which may help Supermarket owners to keep monitor their
employees or their customers moods and can be used to analyse their behaviour so that they can
understand their employees and their customers in a better ways and act accordingly.
Nowadays robots are being developed which has helped both business and individuals in
making their work more easy like in organizations many operations can be done by robots more
easily and efficiently which may take days if done by human and for individuals it is helpful for
them in doing their various daily jobs easily and more quickly. However, this has created a threat
for employees as many of their jobs has been taken over by robots and as a result it can create
job scarcity of humans and for individuals it is making them even more lazy and is also affecting
their health and living standards( Lu and et.al., 2018 ). But if overall effect is seen then robots
has helped individuals and organizations in many ways. Maybe in future robots can be used as a
friend, who can understand one's emotions and act accordingly. Robots in future can also help
elder people who struggle in doing their daily job and managing their needs and requirements.
They can help elder peoples by doing their daily jobs making it easy for older people to live
individually without being a burden on anyone else. As it is already known that AI can help in
predicting weather forecasting, maybe in future AI robots can help in solving climate changes
and understand the reason behind in sudden climate or weather changes. It is also said that from
30 years from now robots will be as intelligence as human beings and will replace them in many
fields operating any machines or for any decision making( Dickow and Jacob., 2018 ).
AI has not only affected the business ans individuals but it has also affected international
politics in many ways. It has helped many nations to improve their trade and defence For
example with the help of drones they can increase there security at places where they cannot
install CCTV cameras. AI can also help in generating new jobs as increasing use of AI has also
increased security threats and privacy issues specially in military applications or in organizations
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where they store sensitive information because cyber crimes are continuously increasing. So as a
result many organizations and nations are focusing their security systems which as a result is
increasing job opportunity for everyone. Business nowadays with the help of Artificial
Intelligence are focusing on innovating new services or new services based on AI and
introducing it in new market for customers( Lisetti and Schiano., 2000 ). However, it is a
debatable topic as at some place it is creating and increasing job opportunities whereas at some
place it is eliminating job opportunities for people. Like if in health care it is creating job
opportunity for handling diagnostic machines, patient's data analysis and security and similarly at
the same time because of these technologies job opportunities are decreasing in health care.
At last it is simply a considered as a tool which is increasing human development,
thoughts, intelligence, creativity and making future predictions, behaviour and human work more
easy, efficient and effective with few side effects of decreasing job opportunities and many
more( Allen and et.al., 2001 ).
CONCLUSION
From the above essay it has been summarized that use of Artificial Intelligence has been
continuously increasing in today's world. It has been beneficial in many ways for organizations
or individuals in different sectors. There are various applications of Artificial Intelligence which
has made human work easy. It has also been analysed that it is an aid for humans in the future
with some side effects.
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