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Artificial Intelligence
What is artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence (AI, or AI in English for Artificial Intelligence) consists of implementing a certain number of techniques aimed at allowing machines to imitate a form of real intelligence. AI finds itself implemented in a growing number of fields of application.
The concept was born in the 1950s thanks to the mathematician Alan Turing. In his book Computing Machinery and Intelligence, the latter raises the question of bringing machines to a form of intelligence. He then describes a test today known as the "Turing test" in which a subject interacts blindly with another human, then with a machine programmed to formulate sensible answers. If the subject is unable to tell the difference, then the machine has passed the test and, according to the author, can truly be considered "intelligent".
From Google to Microsoft via Apple, IBM and Facebook, all the big companies in the IT world are currently working on the problems of artificial intelligence by trying to apply it to a few specific areas. Each has thus set up artificial neural networks made up of servers and making it possible to process heavy calculations within gigantic databases.
Artificial intelligence serving humans.
Artificial vision, for example, allows the machine to precisely determine the content of an image and then automatically classify it according to the object, color or face identified.
The algorithms are able to optimize their calculations as they perform processing. This is how spam filters become more and more effective as the user identifies an unwanted message or, on the contrary, treats false positives.
Speech recognition is on the rise with virtual assistants capable of transcribing words formulated in natural language and then processing requests either by answering directly via voice synthesis, with instant translation or by making a request relating to the order.
As this work progresses, artificial intelligence goes from a simple generic sculpin to an automatic fund management system in finance, a diagnostic aid in medicine, a risk assessment in the field of bank loans or insurance or a decision-making ally in the military field.
While in 2015 the artificial intelligence market weighed $200 million, it is estimated that in 2025, it will amount to almost $90 billion.