Artificial Intelligence
What is it?
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| Introduction |
| History of A.I. |
| A.I. Applications |
| Who did it? |
Learning Goal: Describe the approaches and challenges involved with integrating artificial intelligence into robotics systems.
Daily Objective: Understand how A.I. is used in everyday life
Our last topic was Expert Systems, which are used to answer queries.
One way that expert systems are being used, is in Customer Service:
This is Niki - this is a comparatively old chatbot service.
Watson can now be used in customer service!
Robot telemarketer denies that it is a robot
Not all Customer Service robots are chatbots:
Airport Customer service robots
Robots Jen and Jena at Hotel Jen in Singapore. Similar robots can deliver luggage to rooms.
Personalizing the Customer Experience with A.I.
And some more robots like that
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In your school Google Drive account, drag the "A.I. in Business" document
into your AI folder. Open it, and answer questions 1 - 3.
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Warehouse robots:
And - Amazon is developing robot pickers.
These robots can climb shelves.
There are so many warehouse robots now - too many to show you!
And now for something completely different - Boston Dynamics' warehouse robots
Traffic control:
Artificial Intelligence Traffic Control - man vs machine!
In Pittsburgh, a smart traffic-management system has reduced travel time by 25% and idling time by over 40%.
A new traffic light that thinks for itself
Reinforcement learning in Traffic Management
Deep reinforcementlearning in a different kind of traffic
Waymo (Googles self-driving car division) starts a driverless taxi service in Arizona.
The service won't be public, but pre-approved riders will be able to ride in autonomous vans through a program called Waymo One -- for a fee.
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Go to the Google Doc, and answer questions 4 - 8
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Finance
A.I. in finance (Business Daily)
Let's make sure that you know what the Stock Market is.
Robots vs People - AI in finance
Artificial Intelligence Investing?
Is A.I. taking over the Stock Market? Companies such as Kensho claim to answer complicated
financial question input in ordinary English - an Expert System.
Video - A.I. Forecasting the Stock Market
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Go to the Google Doc, and answer questions 9 - 12
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Other
Cobots are doing well - here at BMI , though sadly, Rethink Robotics, which pioneered Cobots, has closed.
A Japanese hotel is staffed by robots
Robot security guard - but they need to be careful!
Farming with drones is becoming big business
Skycatch drones use AI to control construction gear - the maps created by the drones are sent to Komatsu's builders and diggers, which proceed
semi-autonomously with simple tasks such as digging, leveling and piling up dirt. Skycatch is training machine learning systems on different aspects of the job.
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Go to the Google Doc, and answer questions 9, 10 and 11.
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More news is being written by robots than you think!
Can a journalist write better than a robot?
Facebook and Artificial Intelligence
How Facebook tracks your data, and Instagram, and Twitter
Facebook and Amazon are both very serious about facial recognition AI software
And wait for this: Facial recognition software is being used in a Chinese school
Video - Service robots in Nursing homes
How about an AI lawyer? Or this one?
Look at what Google Earth is expanding this concept into.
Smart Glasses help to catch criminals
Not sure if this is business, but it is scary - AI can clone your voice
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Finish the questions on your Google Doc (13 - 17).
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Now find out about A.I. in video games!