Intro. to AI

Intro. to AI

1. Data Mining

   • Commercial Viewpoint
     • Data collected and warehoused
       • Web Data
         • - Yahoo has Peta-Bytes of web data - Meta has billions of active users
       • Purchases
         • Department/grocery stores
         • e-commerce
           • Amazon
       • Bank/Credit Card transactions
     • Computers becoming
       • cheaper
       • more powerful
     • Strong Competitive Pressure
       • Provide better, customized services for an edge
   • Scientific Viewpoint
     • Data collected and stored at enormous speeds
       • Remote sensors on a satellite
         • NASA EOSDIS archives over PB of earth science data / year
       • Telescopes scanning the skies
         • Sky survey data
       • High-throughput biological data
       • Scientific simulations
         • TB of data generated in a few hours
     • Helps sceintists
       • in automated analysis of massive datasets
       • In hypothesis formation

2. Importance of AI

   • Due to its fast-paced adoptions, AI has +ve impact on different sectors
     • Better Medicine
       • Improving medical diagnosis
         • AI predicts and diagnoses disease at a faster rate.
       • Speeding up drug discovery
         • - Drug development industry has high costs and research takes thousands of human hours. - AI can provide efficiency, accuracy, and knowledge
       • Transforming patient experience
         • - AI helps in better managing patient flow.  - Treating more patients on daily basis. - +ve experiences = higher profits
       • Performing robotic surgey
         • - Help doctors perform complex procedures with precision, flexibility, and control beyond human capabilities. - Robots give doctors (sitting at computer console) a 3D magnified view of the surgical site that surgeons could not get from relying on their eyes alone. - Led to fewer surgery-related complications, less pain, and quicker recovery.
     • Safer Banking
       • Risk management & Revenue generation
     • Innovative Media
       • - Entertainment - Recognizing plagiarism - Developing high-definition graphics
     • Agriculture
       • Increasing agricultural productions to reduce hunger and poverty
     • Renewable energy
       • Find alternative/green energy sources
     • Climate
       • Predict impact of climate change

3. Aritifical Intelligence

   • - Intelligence demonstrated by machines - a branch of CS concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks that usually require human intelligence.

4. Machine Learning

   • - An application (subset) of AI that provides systems the ability to automatically learn and improve from previous experiences/observations without being explicitly programmed. - Needed for tasks that are too complex for humans to code directly/explicitly.