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DuLight is a small device from the Chinese tech company Baidu that resembles a wired earpiece that connects to a smartphone. The device, however, is capable of capturing images in front of the wearer, transmitting those images to the connected smartphone, which then processes them and generates audio descriptions of the immediate environment – potentially allowing the blind to see.
The gist of this artificially intelligent prototype is not the technology used, but how easily this advanced piece of tech will fit into society.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is quietly moving from movie scenes and experimental labs into our pockets, the grocery store around the corner, and the cars we drive to work in every day. AI is subtly changing the way we interact with the world around us, and its influence on everyday life is bound to grow in the future.
Here are some examples of how you've probably interacted with AI recently.
1. News Reporting
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Many large media corporations have been using AI to generate news stories for some time now. For instance, the Fox Cable subsidiary, Big Ten Network, often uses an artificially intelligent application from Narrative Science to generate sports stories and financial summaries. They simply feed scores and statistics from sports events into the application and a story is generated within minutes.
Wordsmith, a natural language engine that was launched in 2015, has been billed as the first natural language AI application that can generate content automatically. Wordsmith uses a large pool of data to generate unique articles on a wide variety of topics, including the stock market and sports.
So the next time you are catching up with the day's baseball stats or stock market activities, the report will most likely be an AI product.
2. Intelligent Apps
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Voice recognition and automatic translation services have always been popular areas of AI experimentation and development.
Siri has probably been the layman's reminder that AI is real, but ever since the first Siri-enabled iPhone came out in 2011, many other applications have integrated aspects of AI into their basic operations. Intelligent personal assistants such as Cortana for Windows and Google Now for Android have since become standard AI additions to many devices.
If you are on Facebook, you are also probably one of the many users enjoying the company's heavy investment in AI. Facebook uses AI for facial recognition every time you upload a photo on the platform. Facebook also uses AI to filter the stories that appear on your newsfeed so that only the stories that are most likely interesting to you appear first.
In the future, AI will also be able to do things like diagnosing depression by simply analyzing photos on Instagram. By checking out photos on the platform or other third party applications like Endoyin, AI applications will be able to detect moods on Instagram photos.
3. Smart Cars
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Away from Tesla's Autopilot and Google's self-driving cars, different aspects of AI have already been integrated into everyday cars. The BMW 750i xDrive, introduced in 2016, can maneuver in and out of tight parking spots without a driver behind the wheel. Models such as the S65 AMG from Mercedes-Benz utilize AI systems that use sensors, cameras, and GPS to collect environmental data and use the information to improve safety and comfort of the occupants.
Features such as lane assist and advanced braking systems have been in use for quite some time in high-end models, but will soon be standard in many upcoming standard car models.
4. Gaming
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Video games probably receive one of the highest levels of attention and investment when it comes to integration of AI. As a result, AI has made some of its greatest strides in this field, with many modern games exhibiting realistic gameplay with dynamic characters and storylines.
For instance, the non-player characters in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor exhibit individually dynamic behaviors that are drawn from variable objectives and past memories. Popular titles such as Far Cry, Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, and Ghost Recon employ varying levels of AI during gameplay.
5. Online Support
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Many websites usually offer an online chat system that enables visitors to engage with customer support representatives on the website. In many cases, however, visitors often engage with rudimentary AI chat bots that are capable of extracting data from the website and using it to answer queries that visitors may have.
With developments in natural language processing, these rudimentary bots will soon be able to respond more like humans, which will be a definite game-changer in the world of AI.
AI is already part of everyday life in more ways than we know. Sometimes it may not be so obvious, like getting flanked by a team of enemy combatants on Call of Duty; while at times we can certainly see what it's doing, like those times Cortana or Siri come through with great suggestions about good restaurants within a given area.