artificial intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence is a branch of computer research and study whose main objective is to ensure that machines or technological devices have the capabilities that humans have, the degree to which the devices can achieve this objective is used to determine what type of artificial intelligence belong. Today, there is a wide variety of machines with different types of artificial intelligence that have learned to master various complex tasks, such as identifying human faces, translating texts into all languages, detecting tumors, driving vehicles, identifying animals,

Why is artificial intelligence important?

Artificial intelligence automates repetitive learning and discovery through data, analyzes more data and deeper data, thus achieving incredible precision. Artificial intelligence adapts through progressive learning algorithms to allow data to do the programming by getting the most out of the data.

There are 4 types of artificial intelligence:

• Reactive machines are the ones with the most limited capacity and have a response to different types of stimuli and their functionality is not based on memory, which means that they cannot make use of previous information, as we humans do with past experiences. Basically, they cannot learn. Example the IBM Deep Blue machine, which was able to defeat the grandmaster and world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in 1997.
• Limited Memory Machines that can learn from previous information to make decisions, moreover, most of the applications that we know and use in our day to day have this type of AI. This type of AI uses a large amount of ‘training’ data in its memory to have references to turn to when they find themselves needing to solve a problem or a task. Example: a system created for image recognition is trained with millions of photographs along with their respective labels so that as soon as one is in front of it, it can be named without problems.
• Theory of Mind when this type of super futuristic artificial intelligence is achieved, machines will be able to understand the people with whom they interact by identifying their needs, emotions, beliefs and mental processes.
• Self-awareness is still a hypothetical idea, but it is the final phase of the types of artificial intelligence. It would occur when a system or machine has the ability to be aware of its own existence, being able to understand and provoke emotions in any person or being with which it interacts and, at the same time, have feelings, emotions, needs, beliefs, and even desires of its own.

Making an artificial intelligence system perfectly understand humans, who change our minds all the time and have a very complex mind influenced by thousands of factors, will undoubtedly be one of the greatest challenges for science. Don’t you think so?