1. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making.
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2. AI is booming in the past five years thanks to the huge data availability on the internet, faster hardware, cloud computing, improved algorithms and strong economic demand.
3. Issues that still face AI today is bias, due to the bias within the training datasets, data privacy as many people online are not comfortable with AI using their data and work for training, which may also be a legal copyright issue, and the fact that we cannot explain or trace how AI reaches a conclusion.
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4. In the healthcare sector, robots are sometimes used in surgery as they are more intricate and stable than the human hand. In the food sector, robots are used in the production process, like packaging, weighing and labeling. This reduces human contact with the food prior to sale and reduces the chance of contamination. In the automotive industry, robots are used to build the vehicles as they have higher power and strength capability than humans do.
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5. I hope the convergence of AGI and autonomous robots isn't imminent, but it could be. If so, we'd probably end up seeing them in retail stores and maybe even in traffic stops.