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Okay, Google, give me a recipe for blueberry pancakes, or Alexa, play “Despacito”... We speak these phrases or other similar ones daily. Then we click on a personalized ad to purchase a product we’ve been researching and planning to buy for the last few days, make sure that our iRobot is doing its job around the floor,? and then go to work by public transportation, where an AI voice informs us about the next stop.?
AI has come a long way in recent years and is used in various ways to make people's lives more comfortable and efficient. From personal assistants to self-driving cars and smart home devices, the applications of AI are becoming increasingly prevalent in our everyday routine. With the ability to learn from and make predictions based on large amounts of data, we’re experiencing? AI being used in everything from e-commerce and social media to healthcare and finance, making our lives more convenient and streamlining processes across many industries. Let’s explore both AI's most well-known and less obvious everyday uses.
The first one that comes to mind -? smart assistants.
Starting with Apple’s Siri as early as 2011, AI assistants have become immensely popular,? with? Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa currently being the most widely used. These assistants use artificial intelligence to set alarms, play music, and add items to your shopping list. The technology behind them is constantly evolving and becoming more sophisticated - to say plainly, they’re getting smarter. For example, Alexa has recently gained natural language understanding (NLU) and can deduce what a speaker means, and not just the words they say - like the fact that the user is probably asking for a local weather forecast when you ask, “Alexa, what’s it like outside?”. The neural network powering the AI assistant has evolved to take speech recognition one step further so you can converse with it rather than just issue commands.? While smart assistants are relatively still in their early days, their future potential is clear to see. Up to the current point, their technology has gone a long way, from performing only the simplest tasks to powering entire households, including vital systems such as security and heating.
Less obvious - 3D photography.
It’s a form of art slowly but surely rising in popularity. Unlike traditional photography, 3D pictures give the viewer a sense of depth and dimension, bringing them visually right into the scene. The concept is taking one or multiple 2D photos and adding a third dimension using special equipment or post-processing the image with artificial intelligence software. AI plays a significant role in the process, both in the capture and processing stages. For instance, the Google Pixel 4a features a dual-camera setup that allows you to take 3D photos without any extra equipment. Additionally, AI can automatically generate 3D models from 2D images, a process that would otherwise be time-consuming and require expert knowledge. A few companies are already offering this service, including NVIDIA, which uses neural radiance fields (NeRF) to generate 3D models from 2D images, with spectacular results. A regular user can see an example in the 3D e-commerce product photos, presenting the product from multiple angles when moving the computer mouse around it. Although it’s still a new, developing technology,? 3D photography can, with the help of AI, realize its potential to revolutionize how we interact with images online.
Extremely popular - navigation apps.
Yes, they are also AI-based and are one of the oldest applications of AI. GPS apps like Google or Apple Maps have been using AI for years to provide users with the best possible route to their destination, considering factors like traffic, road repairs, and the density of occupation in public transportation. The apps use routing to find the shortest or fastest path between two points. AI has made this process much more efficient and accurate, allowing navigation apps to provide users with real-time updates and alternative routes when necessary. There are also newer features like destination anticipation, which enables navigation apps to learn your patterns and predict where you’re going even before inputting a destination. Google Live View is also a poignant example of how we can use AI in navigation. This new feature uses AI and augmented reality (AR) to direct turn-by-turn directions on your phone’s camera view, making finding your way around unfamiliar places even more accessible.
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You might not realize that, but - social media.
AI is not only working behind the scenes to customize your feeds, but it’s also detecting and eliminating false news in all of the social media platforms scrolled through every day by millions of users. Twitter began to rely on AI to improve its product, from suggesting tweets to fighting offensive or racist material and improving the user experience. To learn customers' preferences, they use advanced neural networks that process a large amount of data. Instagram uses big data and AI to target advertising, combat cyberbullying, and remove abusive comments. With the rising number of posts on the platform, the algorithm is becoming increasingly important in showing people the content they might be interested in, removing spam, and creating a more satisfying experience for the end users. Lastly, deep learning assists Facebook in extracting value from a growing number of its unstructured data sets, acquired from almost 2 billion users updating their statuses 293,000 times a minute. The users likely experience Meta's AI daily, as Facebook relies on the technology to work. The company's DeepText system is a deep-learning engine that understands text on the platform with near-human accuracy. Its purpose lies in the platform’s content review process. AI can detect and remove content that goes against our Community Standards before anyone reports it, thus decreasing the amount of spam and harmful content.
In conclusion, AI is making its way into more aspects of our everyday lives and proving beneficial in making our lives more convenient and efficient. The technology behind it is constantly evolving, becoming more sophisticated and innovative. The ones presented are only a few of a great many applications of AI that are helpful daily in our lives. As AI advances, we can expect to see even more innovative applications that will change how we live, work, and interact with the world around us.?
And just to prove that we’re always more or less surrounded by AI-based technology - this article was written with the help of ChatGPT, from its initial plan to the opening and closing paragraphs.
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