Did you know that AI is getting stronger every day? We know this because there are different AIs that can do things that we can do: they can summarize a text faster than we can and they can produce people’s voices. It was created to do stuff that we can’t do fast and not get tired of like doing work or reading stuff and trying to summarize it. AI also hurts the environment due to it needing a lot of energy to run on and other stuff needed from the environment.
How it works
Simplilearn reports that “Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think and act like humans. Learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and language comprehension are all examples of cognitive abilities.” This means that artificial intelligence (AI) is a simulation of human intelligence, by making machines that think to act like us, adapting to new information, and learn how to do things more easily over time. Simplilearn also reports that “AI is accomplished by studying the patterns of the human brain and by analyzing the cognitive process.” This means that the AI studies brain patterns and tries to mimic it so it can do what we do. Also developers who program AI try to make systems that replicate or copy these cognitive processes. It does by something in their program called called Natural language processing (NPL). It’s an AI technique that interprets the human language in both text and speech, meaning that it can do both.
Why it was created
CSU GLOBAL reports that “AI is able to automate a repetitive task that was previously done manually, without feeling any fatigue or having to take breaks like a human employee would need to do.” This means they can do stuff that would be hard for us, do it faster, and do it without getting tired. Like AI can summarize a large text and do it again without being fatigue and getting tired. CSU Global also reported that “AI can be trained to become more accurate than humans, utilizing its ability to harvest and interpret data to come up with better decisions for tasks like picking financial investments or identifying cancerous growths on x-rays” This means AI can see things that we usually miss when try to analyze something, like an X-ray they can see stuff that we would usually miss when looking at it.
How it hurts the environment
In a UN Environmental Program report, it states that “The electronics [AI processing computers] house rely on a staggering amount of grist: making a 2 kg computer requires 800 kg of raw materials.” This means AI takes a lot of materials from the Earth, and some of them are rare metals that are slowly running out and we can’t make more of them. It also reports that AI data centers create electronic waste, including lot of harsh substances like mercury and lead, which can contaminate the environment. AI also hurts the environment by the energy that it needs for it to run: it needs fossil fuels to run. It also uses more electricity than a normal Google search uses and other simple tastes.
