AI or Artificial Intelligence is getting evolved as you read this post…Its true and its a bare fact AI will be a major role player sooner or later as Technology improves.But have we ever thought why AI?

Human brain is said to be the most complex thing in the world then why do we need an AI? Is it just because its fast ? It can retrieve information faster or compute more accurately ?
Lets take a look on the aspects of AI vs Humans for a couple of days.I will be running a post of series covering some points and try to interpret and explain this next generation of Life that will be coming up one way or the other in few yrs ( may be like 5-10 yrs).This post I will be focusing more on How AI interprets data and compare it with Human Brain but before that lets try to understand about AI a little.
What is AI or Artificial Intelligence ?

Intelligence is said to be the natural ability of living form to interpret data and grow smarter.Every life form has intelligence.It will rather incorrect to say that only humans have intelligence.Even a dog has else would not have fetched newspaper for you everyday.You can controverse on it to say its just a habit which is developed as a training, but then how it finds something is wrong with the newspaper when somebody has tampered it to kill you.Its just a matter of being more or less intelligent due to the limitation of evolution and genes.So intelligence like this can be termed as Natural Intelligence.

So back to the question of what is an AI, If a set of things , which are non living,are given life and they work together to interpret and evolve as they solve more problems and has power of reasoning its forms Artificial Intelligence.

Taking for an example games, There are many games who’s strategy changes according to how you play the game.It can change the way of path to fight back against the player as its algorithm keep tracks of what can be your next motive or why are you playing like this.It interprets and reasons.More smarter games even store the information so when they see you doing the same thing , its faster to tackle.

Now thats Intelligence, AI is not just restricted to robots, humanoids(human like robots) its more than that.

Data Interpretation – AI vs Human Brain

Data is a set points which has really no meaning unless you interpret it to give some meaning to your intelligence.How its is interpreted is an individual choice and his ability of reasoning.
Now how Human respond to data, lets take an example of you, Take an image of your favorite Hollywood star, see it for a while and keep it away.Next time you see the image of that person again somewhere, You just say ah this guy is good but have ever given a thought how you recognized him or her? Did u just made a comparison of the image u saw and measured inch by inch to match if its the same guy , I am sure you did not.Human brain searches data more in a dispersed manner.You remember things more as a snapshot not by its exact size or length.

On the other Hand if AI is used for the same thing, it will use exact addressing and algorithm to search and match if its the same person inch by inch.Machines use indexing, exact addressing to retrieve data and then say “Yeah its the same guy”.

Confused? If yes let me make it more simple.Machines or Artificial Intelligence store and retrieve data with help of addresses.They will match images by size width and other parameters.Where as Human Brain don’t store it on addresses, its stored here and there, when time comes to interpret it uses its own algorithm to put together those images to make a match.

This is what makes Human Brain faster than AI.You can interpret data fast and respond much quickly but there is one drawback.Accuracy.As things are stored as snapshot we loose accuracy, this is where AI or computers win.As they index and use mathematics they produce much accurate result but at the cost of time.
I would conclude this post here and come back with another tomorrow with the next set In this Series is “What makes an Artificial Intelligence Intelligent”

All posts of this series are here

• How human brain interprets data – AI vs Humans
• What makes an Artificial Intelligence Intelligent – AI vs Humans
• Artifical Neural Network and Evolutionary Computation – AI vs Humans
• Evolution and Future Of Artificial Intelligence – AI vs Human