Artificial intelligence will change the world beyond our imaginations. These changes have already started and impacting our lives. The future will be driven by machines and algorithms. As per PWC, business leaders said they believe AI is going to be fundamental in the future. In fact, 72% termed it a business advantage.
The AI technologies are making huge waves. The self driving cars, the AI driven applications for healthcare and voice based assistants like Alexa are proof enough of the AI technological prowess.
AI technologies will be one of the most disruptive technologies impacting industries, business, society and our lives. As the market and demand for AI grows, here we look at some of the emerging AI technologies:
1. Speech Enabled Systems:
Speech recognition has always been a fascinating subject for computer scientists. It is now finding way into our day to day operations. Whether it is Google voice search, Alexa or Siri virtual assistants, voice based systems are making great progress.
The interactive voice based systems will find more uses in self driving cars, enterprise application software and many of our day to day tasks can be accomplished using simple voice commands. For e.g. enterprise systems will be able to have intelligent conversations with you, based on the data pool and machine learning tools.
2. Creative AI:
The AI systems are not just capable of learning and analysing data, but also use it creatively to build art & design. The machine enabled systems are capable of taking art images as inputs and even create new images based on its learnings.
In a fascinating development, AI algorithms are now capable of generating music and assisting composers. The music generating algorithms analyse millions of conversations, newspaper headlines, social media conversations to suggest inputs for composers.
The AI generated novels and textbooks are already done. The future will see more books, articles and novels written by AI systems with realtime information and updations.
3. Future Professionals
With the advancement of natural interactions between humans and machines, self learning algorithms, the future professionals will be AI driven systems. It is not hard to see that even in the most complex of fields like medical science, the AI systems are performing quite well.
They are able to assist with diagnosis of diseases after studying patient information and data. The AI driven systems will also be good in legal matters, where they can provide inputs and predictions based on previous case histories.
The AI based learning systems can be used as personalised tutors. These tutors will be able to train students based on individual capabilities, strengths and learning abilities. The AI systems will be able to present information in different ways to augment learning for humans.
4. Robotic Process Automation:
A lot of manual labour work in factories is getting done using robotic process automation. The human actions are mimicked by machines and robots. These methods are used for manufacturing and advanced automation across industries.
With the rise of AI technology, the robotic automation is improving itself on regular basis. The feedback and learning data is used for improvement in business processes.
The convergence of robotic process automation and AI will spark new capabilities for doing things. When robots are equipped with cognitive automation, machine learning, analysis and natural language processing capabilities, they will take over many tasks from humans.
5. Virtual Agents
A virtual agent is a program that can interact with humans. Virtual agents are used for customer support, service and smart home automation etc. With self learning capabilities, the virtual agents will play a bigger role in our day to day lives.
Everyone will be able to use a virtual assistant on mobile enabled devices like smartphones. The virtual agents will be like personalised assistants and will help you with things you need.
6. Devices interacting with Human Brain
Yes, this will be very much possible. The human brain signals and impulses will be able to interact with devices in the future. It may well be possible to study many psychological illnesses and their cures. The human brain is one of the most fascinating technologies, AI scientists are trying to establish links and connects to see how the capabilities of human brains can be replicated by machines.
The advances in human brain and computer interfaces will open new avenues for medical science possible.
7. Image Recognition
Image recognition allows you to identify & detect objects or features in a digital image or video. AI is used for learning about data patterns from the images and build self learning applications on top of this.
The ability to understand images and videos using advanced AI and Machine learning tools can open new avenues for humans. For e.g. drone based systems can be deployed for evacuating humans in cases of natural disasters using AI tools.
The image recognition systems will replace passwords and authentication checks at most places. There is increasing use of AI algorithms to mine data to predict diseases, fraud detection, billing systems and bank cards etc.
8. Emotion Recognition
This AI technology allows software to read, analyse and understand the emotions on a human face using advanced image processing, voice data processing.
The AI systems are capable of predicting your emotional state with high accuracy. The facial and vocal analysers can be used for customer service. The technology can also suggest marketers the best time to contact their leads based on the prospect’s mood.
