AI (artificial intelligence)

Why is it in news?
  • According to an analysis by research agency Itihaasa, India ranks third in research papers on artificial intelligence.
  • Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) is preparing to put in place- AI (artificial intelligence)-powered chatbots- to deal with the innumerable calls and messages that its multiple helplines receive.
  • The B.Tech course will begin from 2019 academic year and IIT-Hyderabad is already offering an M.Tech course in AI-ML.
More in news
  • India ranks third in research papers on artificial intelligence: India, while third in the world with 12,135 documents, trailed behind China with 37, 918 documents and the United States with 32,421 documents.
  • AI Chatbots:
    (1)  Chatbots will be the first line of interaction with consumers, which will help avoid calls going unanswered.
    (2)  Criteria specified by the power utility for the chatbots are the ability to interact with text, and voice input and output; output in multiple languages such as English, Kannada, and Hindi.
  • B-tech in AI:
    (1) It has become the first Indian educational institution to offer a full-fledged B Tech programme in AI.
    (2) IIT-Hyderabad is also the third institute globally after US-based Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Artificial Intelligence
  • Definition: Artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines that work and reacts like humans.
  • Some of the activities computers with artificial intelligence are designed for include:
    (1) Speech recognition
    (2) Learning
    (3) Planning
    (4_Problem solving
  • The core problems of artificial intelligence include programming computers for certain traits such as:
    (1) Knowledge
    (2) Reasoning
    (3) Problem solving
    (4) Perception
    (5) Learning
    (6) Planning
    (7) Ability to manipulate and move objects
  • Knowledge engineering is a core part of AI research. Machines can often act and react like humans only if they have abundant information relating to the world.
  • Artificial intelligence must have access to objects, categories, properties and relations between all of them to implement knowledge engineering.
  • Machine learning is also a core part of AI. Learning without any kind of supervision requires an ability to identify patterns in streams of inputs, whereas learning with adequate supervision involves classification and numerical regressions.
  • Machine perception deals with the capability to use sensory inputs to deduce the different aspects of the world, while computer vision is the power to analyze visual inputs with a few sub-problems such as facial, object and gesture recognition.
Source
The Hindu, Indian express, techopedia



Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 19th Jan 2019
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