AI Defined
There are more interconnected field of studies in Computer Science which are often misunderstood like Artificial Intelligence
, Robotics
, Machine Learning
, Data Science
, Deep Learning
, etc.
Definitions of Artificial Intelligence from ElementsOfAI:
* cool things that computers can't do
* machines imitating intelligent human behavior
* autonomous and adaptive systems
Let me also make one of my own definition for AI:
AI is a field of study in Computer Science which involves giving machines “human intelligence” with the help of sub-fields like machine-learning, deep-learning, data-science, etc.
Go through the following examples from ElementsOfAI which I believe help you to get a clear idea about Which are AI and Which are not ?
Is an AI | Not an AI |
---|---|
Predicting the stock market by fitting a curve to past data about stock prices | Spreadsheet that calcualtes sums and other pre-defined functions on given data |
A GPS navigation system for finding the fastest route | Big data storage solutions that can store huge amounts of data (such as images or video) and stream them to many users at the same time |
A music recommendation system such as Spotify that suggests music based on the user’s listening behavior | Photo editing features such as brightness and contrast in applications such as Photoshop |
Style transfer filters in applications suuch as Prisma that take a photo and transform it into different art styles (impressionist, cubist, …) |
Machine Learning:
Systems that improve their performance in a given task with more and more experience or data.
Data Science:
Includes Machine Learning and Statistics, & certain aspects of computer science including algorithms, data storage, and Web application development.
Robotics:
Building and programming robots so that they can operate in complex, real-world scenarios.
Statistics:
The Practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.
See the following table to see for yourselves the real-world examples
of Statistics
, Robotics
, Machine Learning
, etc from ElementsOfAI.
Example | Statistics | Robotics | Machine Learning |
---|---|---|---|
Autonomous cars apply a wide range of techniques to function. These include statistics, robotics, and machine learning. | YES | YES | YES |
Steering a rocket into orbit | NO | YES | NO |
Online ad Optimization | YES | NO | YES |
Customer service chatbot | NO | NO | YES |
Summarizing gallup results | YES | NO | NO |