By Sheena Goel
While science fiction often portrays AI as robots with human-like characteristics, AI can
encompass anything from Google’s search algorithms to IBM’s Watson to autonomous
weapons. Most of the software or software enabled devices that we use these days are internally
using some or the other form of AI. Right from simply doing google search on internet to using various apps on the mobile phones, AI is impacting us in big way.
When we search on Google, the predictive algorithms used by google in the
background use AI and adapts over time to better meet the needs of users. It has
become impossible to dispense the google search, it is much needed to navigate
through our daily life.
Similarly, AI runs at the background of various maps that are used by the people to
locate their destination on daily basis. Or the GPS systems that are used to locate a person, place or thing. Without these AI softwares we would be wasting our time and money.
So for example, when we use google maps to search and navigate our way to a
particular location, we make informed decisions based on the traffic, weather and
distance statistics collected by it. Which helps us save time by taking shortest and/or
non-congested route, thereby saving fuel and money, this can in turn have a huge
impact on pollution level, which impacts the weather on a large scale.
Online shopping is one more example of AI influencing our lives. Online shopping
websites, collects user preferences and provides recommendations based on the data
they collect about user’s age, ethnicity, skin complexion, height, weight etc.
AI is used by many banks to personalize user experience on their mobile apps.
For example, bank apps analyzes account information in order to provide personalized
alerts related to:
Bill pay reminders
Pre-overdraft alerts
Transfer prompts
Financial institutions use AI also for fraud detection and prevention by sending warning
alert on phone. These types of notifications are possible due to the tracking of your day-
to-day financial transactions, allowing AI to recognize unusual patterns in your spending
habits.
News Apps also use AI to collect preferences, and provide notifications related to news
which you would want to see earliest or most.
Ride sharing apps use AI to help people pool and use vehicles, thereby reducing traffic
congestion on roads, helping people to save money and making a positive impact on the
life of transportation providers, making drivers make more money, and helping them to
use their time effectively
AI finds it’s use in various industries ranging from automotive, communications,
construction and engineering, consumer goods, education and research, financial
services, food and beverage, healthcare, high technology, hospitality, industrial
manufacturing, life sciences, media and entertainment, public sector, retail and utilities
Recently, AI has helped during COVID-19 to track and trace the patients and provide
contactless treatment in-order to prevent spread of disease which was otherwise
impossible to achieve, if AI had not been there.
While AI helps us enhance our capabilities and help us, in some forms AI invades our
privacy, enables discrimination and social manipulation and social grading, which have
potential of making lives of several people miserable without them knowing about it. It
will also prevent them from taking any legal help as it is difficult to prove the same.
In the conclusion, we can confidently say that AI has become part and parcel of our
daily lives, impacting us in a big way right from pauper to king.
References:
1. https://futureoflife.org/background/benefits-risks-of-artificial-intelligence/?cn-
reloaded=1
2. https://medium.com/@the_manifest/16-examples-of-artificial-intelligence-ai-in-
your-everyday-life-
655b2e6a49de#:~:text=AI%20powers%20many%20programs%20and,daily%20b
asis%20for%20many%20years.
3. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/11/19/is-artificial-intelligence-
dangerous-6-ai-risks-everyone-should-know-about/#6bebb9072404
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