Artificial intelligence, a word that you may have heard a lot in the past few years!! Or at least you may have heard the short form for it which is AI. Sounds cool right, we see these things every day, this company uses AI that company develops AI and so on, We also alot of times hear the news that AI is going to take your job in the future..

But what is the actual reality? The image that you have about AI in your mind is it really true and can be believed? You may think Of a future where AI is everywhere, Robots are doing all the day-to-day jobs for you, Your family doctor is suddenly a box of metal with a display and wires on it, and so on. But that’s not what AI is at least for now.

You might or might not know but everyone including you me and millions of people on earth are using AI every day! Youtube video recommendations, Facebook ads, amazon product suggestions, Spotify recommending songs, you name it everything works because of Artificial intelligence!! Also, the correct grammar and spellings in this blog are because of an AI-based product called Grammarly 😀… And it’s actually really annoying after a point because it always triggers my insecurities 😀.

But then a question comes to my mind what makes AI and Machine learning different from other technologies? Let's understand this question with a crazy example!!

If you know when it comes to the game of CHESS, computers have crossed the level of play that humans have back in 1996. No human can play like the computers these days even the best players like Magnus Carlsen can not come close to defeating a computer program tha you can i even run on your smartphone. But the traditional chess programs like stockfish have a way of playing in which the program will follow millions of rules provided to it and will take decisions accordingly and that’s where computers also stopped showing there creativity in chess.

But back in 2018 something truly unbelievable happened in the chess world, a computer program called as Alpha Zero developed by Google’s Deepmind defeated the best chess program stockfish in a very creative and unreal way. It brought a lot of new ideas, played risky chess which is very entertaining by the way and basically broke a lot of rules which were followed for years. Deep mind engineers describe Alpha Zero as “It’s not playing like a computer program it it is playing like a human on fire..” It completely shocked the chess world! And all of this was possible because of a different way in which it was developed, it used machine learning and basically learned the game from the very scratch, and thats why it was called Alpha “Zero” …

That is the true power of AI and Machine learning, it is amazing how well these programs can perform even after providing them with not a lot of data!

Companies like Deepmind are trying a lot of things with AI, they are trying to find solutions to Math and Physics problems, they are trying to find cures for difficult diseases, trying to predict the weather, and stock markets, and a lot more.

How do AI and ML works?

So now as we have a basic idea about what AI and ML are let’s talk a bit about how it actually works! You can almost imagine an Ai program like a newborn child, who is trying to learn different things like walking and speaking but without knowing any formal rules about it.

Like you will never see parents teaching there child how to walk how to lift oneleg then another and so on, the child tries to walk on his own, he fails tries again, fails again and this loop goes on until he succeeds in his task.

Or if we take a computer program-related example then it would be something like this..

Imagine that you want to make a program to add 2 numbers what would you do?

It’s easy right take two variables and give them the addition formula.. But AI and ML brings the difference here if we want to make some program with ML what we would do is we would give the program millions of examples of the addition of 2 numbers and then your AI code will find patterns in it and then it will eventually come to a solution for adding 2 numbers..

Yes I know it does not make any sense but this is just an example of how machine learning and Artificial Intelligence work!!

Artificial intelligence keeps the ability to improve our life, it keeps the ability to find permanent solutions to problems that humans can not find but at the same time, we have to consider the other side of AI.

It is a sad truth but AI in some or another way taking away Jobs from humans, but at the same time it is providing very high-paying jobs, and if you are interested in tech world and want to make a career in it Artificial intelligence is for sure a great choice..

Now some of you overthinkers might think that with this huge article I am trying to promote you a course or something like that but it's nothing like that. You will find a lot of resources online which will teach you about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and believe me you should seriously give it a shot..

Because we never know you might be the next big thing In Artificial Intelligence….

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