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What are some examples of AI applications?
What are some examples of AI applications?
- Speech recognition and self-driving cars (correct)
- Optical character recognition and email spam filters
- Weather forecasting and stock market analysis
- Social media platforms and online shopping
What is the dominant approach in AI research in the 21st century?
What is the dominant approach in AI research in the 21st century?
- Modeling human problem solving
- Simulating the brain
- Statistical machine learning (correct)
- Optical character recognition
What is an example of how AI is used in everyday life?
What is an example of how AI is used in everyday life?
- Analyzing weather patterns for farmers
- Designing new products for companies
- Understanding human speech, such as Siri and Alexa (correct)
- Creating virtual reality experiences
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- Artificial intelligence (AI) is demonstrated by machines and involves perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information.
- AI applications include web search engines, recommendation systems, speech recognition, self-driving cars, and creative tools.
- Tasks considered to require "intelligence" are often removed from the definition of AI as machines become more capable.
- AI was founded as an academic discipline in 1956 and has experienced waves of optimism, disappointment, and renewed funding.
- AI research has tried and discarded many different approaches, including simulating the brain and modeling human problem solving.
- Statistical machine learning has dominated the field in the 21st century and has been highly successful in solving challenging problems.
- Optical character recognition is an example of a technology that is frequently excluded from things considered to be AI.
- AI is used for automated decision-making and competing at the highest level in strategic game systems.
- AI is used for translation between (natural) languages and other mappings of inputs.
- AI is used for understanding human speech, such as Siri and Alexa.
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