Artificial Intelligence for Everyone
My latest book on AI
ISBN 978-3-031-57208-1, Springer 2024, Editon 1, English, e-book or hardcover
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered to be a key technology by industry and scientists. A lot of money is spent for the development of AI systems which show the enormous economic potential of AI. The AI technology is already known since more than 50 years. The Japanese fifth generation in the 1960s already covered topics like deductive and inductive inferences and theorem proving. However, sufficient computer power and enough memory space were not avail-able. This changed during the last 10–15 years where big amounts of data and new algorithms got available and led through a big breakthrough.

AI means the possibility of a computer to solve problems that, done by human beings, requires human abilities such as thinking, learning, planning, and being creative. Computers are able to observe their environment and have the ability to reach a certain target. They can analyze situations that already have been met and adapt their solutions more and more, until to a level that is higher than the level of human beings. They are not in a competition to human beings, but they give them support which very often reduces the required time, and reduces the costs required to eliminate the problem. Machine learning shows at present the most successful performance. A computer system will learn by solving the problem as often as possible based on the outcome of several situations. It is Important that there is no solution path modelled within the algorithms; the computer analyzes the data and results on its own. Very successful is the combination of robotics and intelligent computer systems.
For some time now, AI has been disintegrating into relatively autonomous sub-areas:
- Application of data science in combination with AI and machine learning methods
- AI in medicine
- Robotics
- Speech and language technology
- Educational technology
- Innovative factory systems
- Intelligent networks
- Agents and simulated reality
- Interactive machine learning
- Augmented reality
- Language technology and multilingualism
The representation is further complicated by the fact that many areas overlap and cooperate. It is precisely this cooperation that is an essential feature of artificial intelligence.