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title: AI Basics - AI Can Learn, but Can't Think
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date: 2021-11-16
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summary: AI Basics - AI Can Learn, but Can't Think. AI stands for artificial intelligence. It’s an intelligence system put together artificially to learn and provide an output. Learning can be done by providing data to the AI system. Data can be big data, customer…
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AI Basics - AI Can Learn, but Can't Think.

AI stands for artificial intelligence. It’s an intelligence system put together artificially to learn and provide an output. Learning can be done by providing data to the AI system. Data can be big data, customer data, unstructured text, audio, visual, environment surrounding details etc. Based on the data provided, an AI system would learn and identify hidden patterns and provide an output.

For instance, if an AI is recommending what food to order, it must know your food preferences, what you had ordered before, where do you usually order from, what days you usually order specific cuisine and lot of other details to recommend the right cuisine for you. The output can be a list of Top 5 food orders for today.

Similarly, if an AI is assisting a doctor for providing options for cancer treatment, the system must have the complete patient medical history, must understand the complete cancer domain (or the respective specialization) and also periodically learn any new treatments or findings from medical journals. Understanding the complete cancer domain is a very complex process, where one needs to train the system to understand the medical terminology and the vast ever-growing cancer literature, identify patterns and correlations from existing patients, their suggestive treatments and outcome and finally suggest options for treatment. There can be many more data points and this is a continuous process where system would be trained from the feedback and their outcome. While we keep hearing, AI is helping solve cancer cases, this is far from reality and systems have just started to touch the surface.

To make life simpler, just remember the following distinction –

“AI can learn, but can’t think“.

Thinking would always be left to Human on how to use the output of an AI system. 

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