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Quinebaug Valley Artificial Intelligence

AI in the wild

"AI is increasingly pervasive in our daily lives, often in ways that might not be immediately obvious. Here are some common areas where AI is present:

 

1. **Smartphones**: AI algorithms power virtual assistants like Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa. They also enhance features like camera image processing, predictive text, and voice recognition.

 

2. **Social Media**: Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter use AI to personalize your feed, suggest friends, and even detect and remove inappropriate content.

 

3. **Online Shopping**: AI algorithms analyze your browsing and purchasing history to provide personalized product recommendations on platforms like Amazon and Netflix.

 

4. **Navigation Apps**: GPS navigation apps like Google Maps and Waze use AI to optimize routes, predict traffic congestion, and estimate arrival times based on real-time data.

 

5. **Healthcare**: AI is increasingly used in medical diagnosis, drug discovery, and personalized treatment plans. For example, AI algorithms can analyze medical images like X-rays and MRIs to detect abnormalities.

 

6. **Finance**: AI is used in fraud detection, algorithmic trading, and personalized financial advice. Chatbots powered by AI are also commonly used in customer service for banking and insurance companies.

 

7. **Smart Homes**: AI-powered devices like smart thermostats, security cameras, and voice-controlled assistants can automate tasks, adjust settings based on your behavior, and enhance home security.

 

8. **Entertainment**: Streaming services like Netflix and Spotify use AI to recommend movies, TV shows, and music based on your preferences. Video games also use AI for character behavior, procedural content generation, and adaptive difficulty levels.

 

9. **Autonomous Vehicles**: While fully autonomous vehicles are still in development, AI plays a significant role in advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), such as lane-keeping assistance, adaptive cruise control, and automatic emergency braking.

 

10. **Customer Service**: Many companies use AI-powered chatbots to provide instant responses to customer inquiries on their websites or through messaging platforms.

 

These are just a few examples, but AI is continually evolving and finding new applications across various industries and aspects of everyday life."

  • Facial Recognition for cell phones
  • Social media feeds
  • Text to speech
  • Spam filters
  • Predicting earthquakes
  • Spell check
  • Detecting AI generated content
  • Search engines
  • Wildlife conservation
  • Siri, Alexa, Cortana, etc.
  • Coloring black and white photos
  • Smart home devices
  • Fashion design
  • Real-time traffic updates
  • Weather conditions on traffic maps
  • Space exploration
  • Bank fraud detection
  • Streaming recommendations
  • Chatbots
  • Smart compose and quick reply
  • Live captions
  • Car crash detection
  • Portrait mode pictures
  • Smart speakers
  • Robot Bees and plant pollinators
  • AI toothbrushes
  • Flippy the Burger Flipper
  • Animate still photos
  • Dog emotion facial recognition

What is generative AI good at?

"Generative AI, particularly models like GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), is good at several tasks:

 

1. **Text Generation**: It can generate human-like text in various styles and formats, including articles, stories, poems, dialogues, and more.

 

2. **Content Creation**: It can assist in generating content for marketing, social media, product descriptions, and even code snippets.

 

3. **Language Translation**: Generative models can translate text between languages with reasonable accuracy, aiding in communication across linguistic barriers.

 

4. **Dialog Systems**: They can power chatbots and virtual assistants, engaging in natural conversations with users to provide information or assistance.

 

5. **Creative Writing**: They can inspire creativity by generating prompts or assisting writers in brainstorming ideas.

 

6. **Data Augmentation**: Generative models can create synthetic data, which is useful for expanding datasets for training machine learning models, particularly in scenarios with limited real-world data.

 

7. **Image Generation**: While GPT itself is primarily text-based, other generative models like GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) excel at generating images, art, and even photorealistic faces.

 

8. **Anomaly Detection**: Generative models can learn the patterns of normal data and then detect anomalies or outliers, which is valuable in fraud detection, cybersecurity, and quality control.

 

9. **Personalization**: They can generate personalized recommendations, product suggestions, or responses tailored to individual users based on their preferences and interactions.

 

Overall, generative AI is versatile and can be applied to a wide range of tasks across various domains, leveraging its ability to understand and create human-like content."

  • Writing and debugging computer code
  • Translating text
  • Summarizing and outlining
  • Brainstorming ideas
  • Narrowing topic ideas for a paper
  • Spreadsheet formulas
  • Summarizing documents
  • Reviewing your work

What is generative AI bad at?

"Generative AI has made remarkable strides in various fields such as image generation, text generation, and even music composition. However, there are still areas where it faces challenges:

 

1. **Understanding Context**: Generative AI often struggles with understanding context deeply. While it can produce text or images based on patterns it has learned from data, it might not grasp the full meaning or context behind the content it generates.

 

2. **Consistency and Coherence**: Although generative models have improved in generating coherent content, they can still produce outputs that lack consistency or coherence, especially over longer passages of text or complex scenarios.

 

3. **Creative Originality**: While generative AI can produce content based on patterns in the training data, it often lacks true creativity and originality. It's limited to what it has been trained on and may struggle to come up with entirely new ideas or concepts.

 

4. **Ethical and Moral Judgment**: Generative AI lacks the ability to make ethical or moral judgments. It can generate content that may be inappropriate, biased, or harmful without understanding the consequences.

 

5. **Real-time Interaction and Adaptation**: Generative AI models typically operate offline and lack real-time interaction capabilities. While there are conversational models that can engage in dialogue, they may not adapt well to dynamic or rapidly changing contexts.

 

6. **Understanding Cause and Effect**: Generative AI often lacks a deep understanding of causality. It can generate content based on correlations in data but may not understand the underlying cause and effect relationships.

 

7. **Handling Rare or Unseen Scenarios**: Generative models can struggle when faced with generating content for scenarios that are rare or entirely unseen during training. They may produce unreliable or nonsensical outputs in such cases.

 

Despite these limitations, ongoing research and advancements continue to address these challenges, pushing the boundaries of what generative AI can achieve."

  • Don't upload sensitive data to an AI
  • Generating sensitive material
  • Basic arithmetic
  • Prone to hallucinations (making up information)
  • Subject matter expertise
  • Research
  • Reading your mind!