Seeing AI Uses in Computer Applications

Summary

This chapter discusses artificial intelligence (AI) application types and the fields that commonly rely on AI to perform a significant number of tasks. Applications define specific kinds of uses for AI. The following list contains some fields where AI commonly makes an appearance: artificial life, automated reasoning, automation, biologically inspired computing, concept mining, intelligent agent and intelligent control, and so on. The two essential ways in which AI currently contributes to human needs are through corrections and suggestions. The chapter considers corrections and suggestions separately. Using an AI also means that humans can now exercise other kinds of intelligent input. The chapter also discusses potential AI errors. An outright error occurs when the result of a process, given specific inputs, isn't correct in any form. AI works best when a human reviews important decisions or the environment is so static that good results are predictably high.