Applications of artificial intelligence
applications of machine intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its subfields have been used in applications throughout industry and academia. Machine learning has been used for various scientific and commercial purposes, including language translation, image recognition, decision-making, credit scoring, and e-commerce. Since the 2020s, massive advancements have been made in the field of generative AI (GenAI) as a result of the 2017 inception of Transformer Model architecture. GenAI has the ability to create text, images, voice, music, videos, and other forms of data from chat-based prompting.
Agriculture
In agriculture, AI has been proposed as a way for farmers to identify areas that need irrigation, fertilization, or pesticide treatments to increase yields, thereby improving efficiency. AI has been used to attempt to classify livestock pig call emotions, automate greenhouses, detect diseases and pests, and optimize irrigation.
AI-assisted software development
Physical AI
Architecture and design
AI in architecture is the use of AI in automation, design, and planning in the architectural process or in assisting human skills in the field of architecture.
AI has been used by some architects for design, and has been proposed as a way to automate planning and routine tasks in the field.
Business
A 2019 study found that generative AI increased productivity by 15% in contact centers. Another 2019 study found it increased productivity by up to 40% for writing tasks.
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