Why Do We Need Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence AI is the next big thing in technology But why do we need it The answer lies in the many scenarios where AI can make a significant difference For example consider the case of Alan who met with a major accident while driving home along with 10 265 other people in the same year Every year this number is increasing and we now have cars that can drive on their own potentially saving lives like Alan s Similarly Jack is blind and wishes for a device that could help him see the world while Olivia is visiting Berlin and cannot understand German sign words She wishes for a software that can convert those German words into English In all these scenarios what we need is an intelligent machine that has the power to think analyze and make decisions in other words artificial intelligence The basic idea behind AI is to mimic a human brain inside a machine For example if we want a car to drive on its own we need to train that car based on a driver s experience With AI people like Alan can sit comfortably in a self driving car and reach home safely AI has also helped people like Jack or Camps Eye a small wearable device that can read printed text from any surface recognize faces and individuals as well as identify products and denominations of currency notes We also have AI enabled mobile apps that can extract text from an image and convert it into a different language AI is not only saving our lives and making it comfortable but is also contributing to the field of art For example the famous painter Eric has a computer program called Aaron which can create unique and exquisite paintings Softwares are even composing music and AI has given us word scripts that can create a unique story for you It writes articles in newspapers and on the internet We even have Sherlock an intelligent tutoring system teaching airforce technicians how to diagnose electrical problems in aircraft Clearly after the internet which connected the entire world and microchips without which more than humans cannot survive AI is the next big thing that is revolutionizing the world Technologies Driving AI Advancements The question is what are the technologies that are driving advancements in the field of AI First we have machine learning which has been used to achieve AI Now people are talking about deep learning which is a subfield of machine learning Deep learning works in the same way as the human brain inspired by neurons which are nothing but brain cells Deep learning uses multiple artificial human neurons arranged in the form of layers where the output of every layer is the input to the next layer Earlier due to less data and lack of computation power deep learning was not possible But now we have GPUs and a huge amount of data due to which deep learning models give very high accuracy For deep learning the most famous programming language is Python and Tensorflow is a Python package for implementing deep learning products Eddy Rekha Learn AI and Deep Learning Come and master the concepts of AI and deep learning with Eddy Rekha s structured program which includes neural networks convolutional neural networks recurrent neural networks RBM and autoencoders using Tensorflow