AI in Everything: Berries, Surgery, Opera and More
There’s no escaping artificial intelligence today.
From the impending apocalypse to generating video games from voice prompts to cheating on your college essay, the impact of AI in our lives has become more and more apparent. Because AI represents a nascent technology that is developing at a rapid pace, challenges abound when it comes to the safety and regulation of AI technology.
Recently, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently testified in front of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee and expressed his concerns regarding the technology. World leaders have convened to discuss the ramifications of the technology. Search volume for the term ‘AI’ has increased over 8x since last year.
Yet, behind the drama, many of the most profound and transformative use cases of AI have crept more subtly into our everyday lives.
Data from Pew Research shows that while 44% of people are aware of AI bots like DALL-E 2 that produce visual images from keywords, only 22% are aware that AI is being used to help detect skin cancer in humans.
Here are a few other amazing applications for AI that you may not be familiar with:
Robots have been used to help perform delicate medical procedures, including eye surgery. The robot used AI guided tech to inject a recombinant tissue plasminogen activator under the retina to displace sight-threatening hemorrhages in patients.
Want fresh produce? AI technology is being used to help farmers harvest berries when they are at the perfect ripeness. Using cameras and sensors to detect a ripe berry, robotic arms (similar to tongs) then grab the berries and place them in a nearby basket.
New technology uses AI to help detect and screen for a variety of mental health disorders. Aiberry uses an AI-powered therapeutic assistant to conduct a conversation to detect mental health disorders by analyzing what is being said. Speech patterns and even subtle changes in facial expressions help a human professional make a diagnosis.
Sit back and relax, AI will get us where we need to go with self-driving cars. Using complex algorithms paired with machine learning, computer vision, and safety systems run a perpetual gamut of scenarios to guide autonomous cars through real world space.
Robots are very sophisticated, and nothing says sophisticated like singing opera. This robot creates motion autonomously and responds to the music of its human collaborators in the orchestra.
AI technology is here to stay whether we like it or not. As we grow increasingly familiar with AI, we will continue to understand both the positive and negative externalities to this world-changing tech.
We have already come to rely on the technology in our everyday lives, with digital assistants like Siri and Alexa, and automated suggestions of what to watch next on Netflix. We use voice-to-text technology to send text messages while we’re driving. And if you happen to be using a GPS app on your phone, then you’re using AI to help you get where you need to go.
AI is the future, and the future is now.