All about Artificial Intelligence, its Benefits and Risks.
                     All about Artificial 
Intelligence, its Benefits 
and Risks
Artificial intelligence
• Artificial intelligence or machine intelligence is the intelligence 
demonstrated by machines, unlike natural human intelligence. 
It mimics cognitive actions, problem solving and learning.
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History
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be the successor to computer 
technology which has taken over a huge amount of our daily 
work and activities. Computer science defines AI research as 
the study of ‘intelligent agents’.
Applications
• AI finds its application in a wide variety of sectors like 
healthcare, agriculture, automobile, aviation, education, 
finance, heavy industries and much more.
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Progress
• The world of AI is progressing rapidly as we already find its 
presence in personal mobile assistants Siri and Alexa, self 
driving cars by Tesla and Google’s search algorithms.
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Beyond humans
• One of the advantages of AI is that unlike human beings they can 
work for several hours without a stop, which makes them 
beyond humans with high cognitive functions, visual perception, 
decision making and speech recognition capabilities.
Benefits
• AI has benefitted businesses, economy and industries by 
making work more efficient, faster and also helped people to 
do their work in a better way.
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Benefits
• Complex algorithms by AI has also made life easier, creating 
new opportunities, jobs and its usage in healthcare has made 
surgeries and treatments more precise.
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Risks
• Widespread use of AI can have unintended consequences 
which could be dangerous. The potential risks include 
governments misusing AI to suppress people and criminal 
organizations to disrupt large processes.
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Risks
• Famous personalities Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have 
expressed concerns on how AI can cause an existential risk for 
humans and can even end the human race, if its development 
is not controlled.
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