Wednesday, March 08, 2017

59 impressive things artificial intelligence can do today

·         Ed Newton-Rex, Medium

2050.
That’s the year in which artificial intelligence will be able to perform any intellectual task a human can perform, according to one survey of experts at a recent AI conference. Anything and everything any person has ever done in all of historyall of it doable, by 2050, by intelligent machines.
But what can AI do today? How close are we to that all-powerful machine intelligence? I wanted to know, but couldn’t find a list of AI’s achievements to date. So I decided to write one.
What follows is an attempt at that list. It’s not comprehensive, but it contains links to some of the most impressive feats of machine intelligence around.
Here's what AI can do:
What AI can do: Everyday human stuff
5.     Speak
Travel
1.      Drive
2.    Fly a drone
Science & medicine
Agriculture
1.      Detect crop disease
4.    Sort cucumbers

Security

5.     Detect malware

Finance

1.      Trade stocks

Law

Games & tests

Assistance

Programming

Meteorology

Creativity

3.    Write music
4.    Design logos
7.     Write film scripts

Boring but important

Full-on unbelievable stuff

Source:  http://www.businessinsider.com/artificial-intelligence-ai-most-impressive-achievements-2017-3?IR=T/#what-ai-cando-everyday-humanstuff-1