Artificial intelligence is one of the imminent technologies. While we have and use rudimentary AI for basic purposes at the moment, the further the technology is developed the more sophisticated it becomes and the more it is able to do.
There are many ways in which artificial intelligence – clever robots capable of logical thought and autonomous decision making – look set to transform our world.
One of the most talked-about changes that artificial intelligence looks set to bring is mass automation of industry and other huge swathes of our economy and society. Even managerial and jobs such as those in law could be automated. As a result of discussion around this topic and predictions as to the scale of the automatic revolution set to engulf the world economy 22 per cent of British workers fear that they will be replaced by a robot.
The technology to bring mass-scale human redundancy is not quite in place. Some manufacturing jobs are already automated but further research is needed until robots begin to take up more skilled positions.
At the moment, however, there are lots of other ways the current AI technology is being used to help human society and, in the process, enable engineers to learn more about the technology in order to aid the next breakthrough.
Some of these useful deployments of new technology are, while positive, odd, surprising, or, in some cases, utterly bizarre. And not all of them are all that useful – they just serve as a bit of fun and as a way of experimenting with the technology and demonstrating what it may one day be capable of. Here are three of those uses that are strikingly strange.
1. Robot bees
A great deal has been said about the danger faced by bees in their ongoing struggle to survive and it is a species of insect we cannot afford to lose. The animals are crucial to crop pollination but pesticides and other pressures and threatening their existence.
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To ensure that famines do not occur, researchers have developed a robot bee drone that uses artificial intelligence, GPS, and a camera to pollinate in a very similar way to honeybees.
2. Coaching football teams
Some non-league football teams, such as Wingate and Finchley FC, have turned to artificial intelligence to help break a run of bad results. The system analyses data from matches to calculate the best formation and style of play to use against the relevant opponent and then uses an amazon echo device to provide advice to coaches during the game.
The first game in which the technology was used resulted in a 1-all draw.
3. Writing books and songs
While an AI which can write books and songs may sound initially useless, the technology is actually quite brilliant and these uses merely to demonstrate its capabilities. The technology behind this is called deep learning and is all about how AI absorbs information and learn from it.
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The algorithms used are still fairly primitive, but the idea is that the more a deep learning machine is taught the more capable it is. The most famous example of this use is in “Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash,” a hilarious Harry Potter story is written entirely by a robot concluding with the memorable line “‘I’m Harry Potter,’ Harry began yelling. “The dark arts better be worried, oh boy!”
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