1. What is artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a machine to show human capabilities such as reasoning, learning, planning and creativity.
Artificial intelligence allows systems to understand their environment, relate to what it perceives and solve problems, and act towards a specific goal. The computer receives the data (already prepared or collected through sensors, such as a video camera), processes it and responds.
AI systems are able to adapt their behavior by analyzing the effects of previous actions and working independently.
Artificial intelligence allows systems to understand their environment, relate to what it perceives and solve problems, and act towards a specific goal. The computer receives the data (already prepared or collected through sensors, such as a video camera), processes it and responds.
AI systems are able to adapt their behavior by analyzing the effects of previous actions and working independently.
2. Why is artificial intelligence important?
Some types of artificial intelligence have been around for more than 50 years, but advances in computer power, the availability of huge amounts of data, and the development of new algorithms have led to great leaps in technology in recent years.
AI is central to the digital transformation of society and has become a top priority.
Future applications could bring about great changes, but we must not forget that artificial intelligence is already present in our lives.
AI is central to the digital transformation of society and has become a top priority.
Future applications could bring about great changes, but we must not forget that artificial intelligence is already present in our lives.
3. Do we have examples of applied Artificial Intelligence?
Online shopping and advertising
Artificial intelligence is widely used to provide suggestions based, for example, on previous purchases, searches and other behaviors recorded online. Artificial intelligence is also widely used in the retail trade, to optimize inventories and organize supplies and logistics.Online searches
Search engines learn from a large amount of data, provided by users, to deliver relevant search resultsPersonal digital assistants
Mobile phones use artificial intelligence to offer the most personalized product possible. Virtual assistants answer questions, provide suggestions and help organize the agenda of many smartphone owners.Automatic translation
Machine translation software, based on audio or written text, uses artificial intelligence to provide and improve translations. Another use is automatic video subtitlesSmart homes, cities and infrastructure
Smart thermostats learn our behaviors to optimize energy. Artificial intelligence can be used in cities to improve traffic and reduce traffic jams.Vehicles
Although self-driving cars are still rare, the cars we drive already have some safety functions that use artificial intelligence such as the use of sensors that identify possible dangerous situations and accidents.Cyber security
Artificial intelligence systems can help recognize and combat cyber attacks and threats. They do this by learning from the continuous flow of data, recognizing trends and reconstructing how previous attacks happened.Artificial intelligence in the fight against COVID19
In the case of the COVID19 epidemic, artificial intelligence is used for temperature controls in public places. In medicine, it is used to recognize infections from CT scans of the lungs. AI can also be used to provide data on the progression of the epidemic.Fight against disinformation
There are artificial intelligence applications that are able to detect fake news and disinformation, analyzing the contents of social media and identifying suspicious words and expressions, because they are sensational or alarming. They can thus help to understand which sources can be considered authoritative.Health
Researchers are studying how to use artificial intelligence to analyze large amounts of medical data and uncover matches and patterns to improve diagnosis and prevention.Researchers have developed an emergency call answering program that recognizes cardiac arrest faster than a human operator. There are already several projects that are developing multilingual text search tools that can more easily find the medical information available and choose the most relevant.
Transportation
Artificial intelligence could improve the safety, speed and efficiency of transport, also thanks to the use of autonomous driving.AI in factories
AI would help European manufacturers be more efficient. The use of robots could help reopen production factories. In addition, artificial intelligence can be used to plan sales channels, for maintenance, for collaborative and augmented reality systems and to increase worker satisfaction in smart factoriesAgricultural and food supply chain
AI can be used to build a sustainable food system. By minimizing the use of fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation, helping productivity and reducing environmental impact, artificial intelligence can help produce healthier food. An example: robots can be used to remove weeds, thus reducing the use of herbicides.Many farms already use artificial intelligence to monitor the movement, temperature and feeding of livestock.
Public administration and services
By using the data to develop models, AI can provide an alert system for natural disasters, recognizing the first signs on the basis of past experience. It would thus make it possible to prevent and prepare the response to the disaster.4. What are the advantages of artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence for security
Artificial intelligence for workplace safety is an ever-expanding sector
thanks to the numerous applications of new digital technologies: robotics, advanced self-learning (deep learning), data science, predictive maintenance, computer vision.
With artificial intelligence and the recognition of images and objects it is possible, for example:
- Monitor the flow of people in industrial sites, warehouses, offices, construction sites, logistics centers. Facial recognition software can be trained to extrapolate faces from video footage in real time, and then compare the biometric features with those included in certain categories of a database, in order to allow only authorized personnel to enter restricted areas. access.
- Assist drivers in driving vehicles by biometric detection of facial expressions that characterize physical states such as drowsiness and distraction, thus decreasing the likelihood of accidents.
- Check that the personnel carry out the actions required by the safety procedures on construction sites correctly and in the right sequence, for example wearing protective equipment (helmets, goggles, gloves) or washing-disinfecting suits and equipment to decontaminate them from substances harmful to human health .
- Detect situations of potential danger for people on construction sites and in areas where plant maintenance operations are carried out, such as the transit of heavy vehicles and the presence of suspended loads.
Artificial intelligence can automatically send alarm signals to the mobile devices of field personnel (technicians, workers, site managers, etc.) as well as record video-photos to be transmitted in real time on IoT platforms.
thanks to the numerous applications of new digital technologies: robotics, advanced self-learning (deep learning), data science, predictive maintenance, computer vision.
With artificial intelligence and the recognition of images and objects it is possible, for example:
- Monitor the flow of people in industrial sites, warehouses, offices, construction sites, logistics centers. Facial recognition software can be trained to extrapolate faces from video footage in real time, and then compare the biometric features with those included in certain categories of a database, in order to allow only authorized personnel to enter restricted areas. access.
- Assist drivers in driving vehicles by biometric detection of facial expressions that characterize physical states such as drowsiness and distraction, thus decreasing the likelihood of accidents.
- Check that the personnel carry out the actions required by the safety procedures on construction sites correctly and in the right sequence, for example wearing protective equipment (helmets, goggles, gloves) or washing-disinfecting suits and equipment to decontaminate them from substances harmful to human health .
- Detect situations of potential danger for people on construction sites and in areas where plant maintenance operations are carried out, such as the transit of heavy vehicles and the presence of suspended loads.
Artificial intelligence can automatically send alarm signals to the mobile devices of field personnel (technicians, workers, site managers, etc.) as well as record video-photos to be transmitted in real time on IoT platforms.
Benefits of artificial intelligence for businesses
Artificial intelligence can enable the development of a new generation of products and services, even in sectors where European companies are already in a strong position such as the circular economy, agriculture, healthcare, fashion and tourism . In fact, it can offer smoother and more optimized sales paths, improve machinery maintenance, increase both production and quality, improve customer service and save energy.
Benefits in public services
AI applied to public services can reduce costs and offer new options in public transport, education, energy and waste management and improve the sustainability of products.
Benefits of AI for people
Artificial intelligence could mean better healthcare, safer cars and other transportation systems, and even tailored, cheaper and more resilient products and services. It can also facilitate access to information, education and training. With the COVID-19 epidemic, distance learning has become a necessity. AI helps make the workplace safer, because the most dangerous work can be outsourced to robots, and offers new jobs thanks to the growth of the artificial intelligence industries.
