1.1. Learning Machine learning

Unit 1.1.1 Tutorial 1

1.1 Introduction to AI

Areas of Application of AI in our Daily Life

  1. Health Care
  2. Agriculture
  3. Retail
  4. Productivity

AI application in Agriculture
Here are three major categories of applications of AI in agriculture:
• Agricultural Robots – Development and programming of autonomous
machinery to manage essential tasks in agriculture such as harvesting of the
crops at a higher volume and faster pace than human laborers.


• Crop and Soil Monitoring – Advanced computer vision together with deeplearning algorithms are being developed to process data captured by drones
and other technologies to monitor crops and soil health of vast geographical
areas that are difficult, by their size, to manage by people.


• Predictive Analytics – Models are being developed with machine learning
technology to track and predict various environmental impacts on crop yield
such as weather changes, spread of pest and agricultural diseases etc.

AI application in Retail
The future of retailing is in the partnership of employees with AI technology to
introduce ways of optimizing the performance of the business. (Bayern, 2019).
AI in retail can be used in specific areas such as
• supply chain planning,
• demand forecasting,
• customer intelligence,
• marketing, advertising and campaign management, and

  • pricing and promotion of products or services.

Productivity at work
AI-powered applications and apps are prevalent at work ,
• assisting the human resources department in workforce recruitment using data from
similar job postings which have borne fruit (Greene, 2019).
• supporting scheduling meetings, writing emails, making appointments and, thus
helping users to manage their time well.
• applying AI techniques in language definition by checking for correct spelling and
grammar and suggesting possible changes to the wording.

Personal Life
Many of the apps we run on our smartphones are all AI-powered.
• listen to music
• When we speak a command, our phone analyzes our speech, understands the task,
and runs a search to find the song before playing it.
• Reminders for a meeting, or to buy groceries on a particular day for your parents or
reminding you to study a particular subject for an upcoming test are all AI
interventions in our daily life.
• The email spam filters that keep unwanted emails away from your inbox, or
• Social networking site which uses AI to personalize your newsfeed and ensures that
you are seeing posts that interest you.

Robotic Processes Automation (RPA)
Robotic processes automation is a form of business process automation.
RPA systems develop the action list by watching the user perform that task inside the
software and then perform the automation by repeating those tasks directly in the
software.

Conversational AI
Conversational AI is a set of technologies that enable computers to simulate
conversations and refers to the use of messaging apps, speech-based
assistants and chatbots to automate communication and create personalized
customer experiences at scale.

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