Week 12: Understanding Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence in my eyes is both extremely useful, but also a bit confusion and at times even frightening. Artificial intelligence has taken over every industry with a snap of a finger. From warehouses, to vehicles, appliances, even items in your everyday homes like cell phones, or smart speakers. A.I is everywhere wether we like it or not. To me what is so confusing about A.I is just how does it all work? how did we all of a sudden develop things like cars that can drive themselves or speakers that can turn your lights on, and so on. It's crazy to think that in the years to come, A.I might literally take place of everything we do. 

Now what's cool about artificial intelligence is that it has become an extremely useful tool in our everyday lives and we may not even be where we are today in our society without it. When you think about it, A.I has brought us a new industry of automobiles. Tesla for example has created hundreds of thousands of jobs just solely on creating self driving and energy efficient automobiles. As mentioned before, smart speakers are one of the biggest items that have taken off over the past couple years. Items like the Amazon Alexa, or even the Google Home are just two examples of these amazing items that allow users to control things like their lights, temperatures, unlock and open doors, and much more. 

For me personally, I work at Best Buy and about 85% of the products we sell have some sort of A.I involved with them. With that, I also have the opportunity to try new products all the time and be able to relay information to customers on how these products can improve their lives and same them both time and money. Its a great trade off and personally I think there is still a lot to come with A.I but we really never know. I think there's no clear answer as to what the future will hold for A.I but all we can do is be optimistic that it will bring the best of everything.