AI make us stronger
We can write about AI and its impact in our lives and this is all we need to make us informed and for our well-being.
Quantum physics, which has brought us electronics, modern materials and medical devices with which we can operate patient's body without invasive procedures, was created about a hundred years ago as a combination of mathematical analysis, linear algebra and probability theory. The same mathematical disciplines, combined differently, are also found in the foundations of artificial intelligence.
In order to even get into the situation of discovering a new algorithm or a new way of applying AI, it is necessary to have an excellent knowledge of mathematics.
And not only at the level that is taught in undergraduate studies, but at the level acquired in postgraduate studies. Partial derivatives, continuity and differentiability of functions, factorisation of matrices and their decomposition by singular values, multidimensional probability distributions and regularisation of parameters are just some of the mathematical terms that are part of everyday professional language. Without mathematics, you can't even understand how past discoveries work, and let alone create something new.
Just as in physics it is the case that mathematics is the language of thinking in physics, in artificial intelligence it is even stronger. Namely, in physics, experiments and physical intuition plays a big role, while in artificial intelligence mathematics is really the basis of everything we do.
Strengthening of us by artificial intelligence will be describe in next sentences:
Whenever we search for something on Google, we engage their artificial intelligence program and get reliable information as soon as possible. Autonomous driving systems are already widely used in Tesla cars, and should help to compensate low offers of truck driver across Europe and America.
It is not much different for lawyers, doctors and engineers. For example, it is possible for some lawyers to lose their jobs, but not because they will be replaced by artificial intelligence, but because some other lawyers will use artificial intelligence and be much more efficient and productive, so they will be able to lower the price of their services.
Pharmaceutical industry has nearly same development by artificial intelligence. In order to determine the three-dimensional shape of the protein, which determines the metabolic function of the protein, until now we had to send molecules for analysis to specialized laboratories that do so called crystallography and wait months for the results. In addition to the fact that is lasted for months, a huge amount of money was allocated for this procedure.
DeepMind , an English company that belongs to Google and is known for its programs for playing chess with the help of AlphaFold program drastically accelerated the whole process. They created software that was able to learn the "language" of proteins that is how to translate the sequence of amino acids that make up a protein in three-dimensional shape into which the protein folds. AlphaFolds does this in a fraction of a second, which is the final and key part in computerizing the entire drug discovery process.
Artificial intelligence found way in many sectors and many segments of human life. There is logical conclusion we can be and much stronger with it within steady development and usage for well-being . We need to find some ways to protect environment and invest for AI and safety systems for human lives and that is crucial for human's happiness and recovery of devastated and poor parts of our Planet.
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