Pros of AI Today

Introduction

 AI or Artificial Intelligence is almost all around us. From music suggestions in Spotify, video recommendations from Youtube, friend suggestions on Facebook and many more. 

In 2022, the AI era has come to a new level when ChatGPT was released. This gives us a new way of looking and experiencing the power of artificial intelligence or machine learning combined NLP of natural language processing. We can now talk with computers as if they are a real person. You can ask them anything and they give you a response.

In its most basic term, they are a prediction of what should come next. More like a line equation that can predict what will be the next point when given a certain condition. You don't have to define everything for the machines to learn, you just have to cover a large set of data. For example, if we have a survey data of jobs by height, let's say job A are mostly performed by people with height 5 feet and below and job B are mostly performed by people with height of more than 5 feet, the computer can now predict something. Let's say we want to know what will be the job of a person with a height of 4'11", the AI will mostly likely be spitting the job A as the output. Generally, this is how AI works. This applies to for example predicting the type of musics you might want to listen to, etc.

What are the Advantages?

Let's now look at what are the possible or have been the advantages of having this powerful tool in our hand.

Easier Searching

For a long time, we rely of big search engine companies to do our searching on the internet. These are called search engines and the biggest one so far is Google. We also have other choices such as Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, Ask.com, Naver, AOL, Brave Search and many more. They have been very helpful for us for such a long time but there are some catch is using them. The most notable is the data collection most of them do from its users. Another issue is that we have to sniff through the top results in order for us to get the closest answer we are looking for. 

But now we have chat assistants, we can just ask them they tell us the result without us needing to filter the results. 

Let's do an example, say we want to get 10 quotes from the bible. We can certainly do this in Google for example.

Here is a sample search result from Google.

After that, we can select one of the links on the results and then get some 10 quotes. Not that bad right?

Now let's try using Gemini:

Then let's try ChatGPT:

Then let's have another one from DeepSeek:

How about that?

Unless you are looking for the most current information, we can already utilize these tools if we want. We can always decide whether or not to accept the results even before.

Now to check how current are the information these AI assistant tools have let's have some:

1. ChatGPT - Last training data is on September 2021
2. Gemini - Last training date not officially announced
3. DeepSeek - Last training data is on October 2023

With these, we can already decide whether or not certain answers can be accepted.

Virtual Assistant

Since the AI assistants that we have now such as those 3 mentioned above are equipped with Natural Language Processing, we can converse with them as we can similarly with human. And because they are trained on a vast collection of data, we can assume that they are significantly knowledgeable on many areas. Maybe not as human but they are getting closer and closer in how the neurons of our brains work. Because of this, we can definitely say that they are a good tool for becoming virtual assistants for us.

Image Analysis

The same as a human, they are also trained and looked at a whole lot sets of images. In short they are trained to recognize what are the contents of an image. 

For example, if we want to know what are in the photo, we can just ask Gemini for example.

Crazy right! Well that is the world we now live in. We can continue rejecting and say bad things about it or we can leverage what we have now and use them as tools. It's really up to us. We can use them or they can use us. I hope it's the first one.

Code Generation

Another tool that this AI brought to us is the ability to command them to write us some basic codes. Well they are a lot of grey areas in this but they are actually usable already. Still depending on us, on our judgement.

For example, we can make them write a program to do certain things such as grab all the figures from a web page.

Let's say that we have this website https://serc.carleton.edu/hydromodules/steps/166250.html, and we want to grab all the figures or photos from that, let us make a program for that with the help of Gemini,

And with just that prompt, it gives us a python code we can use to do the task that we told it. Of course we have to test this, but hey, it's a bunch of boilerplate here. Even if it does not work as expected, we already have a baseline if we don't have any idea how to do it. 

That is how helpful it is to many programmers out there.

Quick Answering Machine

Simple questions that needs simple, quick, and direct answers can also be achieved with AI Chats. Simple things such as "What is the cube root of 8?" can quickly be answered.

For example we want some answers in Tagalog (Philippine national dialect),

Conclusion

There are so many thinks aside from those mentioned in this post that we can attain with the help of AI. Let us use this and experiment. Use it as tool. The decisions remains with us!