What is AI (Artificial Intelligence)?

 

What is AI (Artificial Intelligence)?

If you’ve ever dictated a message to your phone or programmed your thermostat to maintain a certain temperature, you’ve interacted with artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is the science of training machines to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. AI is generally divided into two fields: Narrow AI and Artificial General Intelligence. Narrow AI focuses on performing a single task extremely well and is the kind of AI that we are familiar with today. Computer programs have beaten humans at chess, Jeopardy, and Go – games with specific parameters and defined outcomes. Speech recognition and facial recognition technologies are other examples of Narrow AI performing specific tasks within a limited scope.

 Artificial General Intelligence is the concept of a machine the capacity to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human can. This is considered the Holy Grail of AI and would incorporate many narrow AI fields like machine learning, natural language processing, machine perception, social intelligence, and robotics. No one has achieved true Artificial General Intelligence, but NGA is already implementing a variety of Narrow AI disciplines to enhance and improve its national security mission.

Instead of having analysts make changes manually, we are using AI automation to help with routine data sorting like updating NGA’s safety of navigation publications.  Using computer vision - another form of AI, we can train a computer to differentiate between elements in a satellite image, then has it filter out the relevant information. Computer vision can quickly note differences between images and highlight changes on the ground. There’s still no replacement for human cleverness and ingenuity, but for now, AI is helping NGA keep up with the ever-changing world and the ever-increasing amount of data it produces.

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