Exercises from People’s Guide to AI

pg. 11

When you hear the words “Artificial Intelligence”, what are the first four things that come to your mind?

Potential to drive the future of technology
Powerful tool that knows everything or almost everything
Limited tool also in terms of data and execution
Polemic

pg. 23 to 28

Think about the devices and/or digital services you use daily. Write below a list of the top three that are present in your life.

Smartphone
Computer
Headphones

Have these things ever surprised you by guessing something about you that you didn’t expect? e.g.

“One morning I noticed my phone created a heartfelt recap of the year with my photos that made me tear up a little”

“One time I got an email and my email inbox suggested how I should reply to it”

– I remember this time I was talking about a film or even a product with my coworkers at the studio, maybe a year ago or so, and find out later that my social media was already suggesting me to consume that specific film or product in some way. I didn’t even googled it before, which is another surprising thing.

Take a moment to see if you can identify what function AI plays in the following list. If you get lost, go back to the examples of AI in Action.

Email inbox	Spam Filtering
Check depositing	Facial Recognition
Texting and mobile keyboards	Virtual Assistant
Netflix	Recommendation Engines
Google (search function)	Recommendation Engines
Social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc)	Recommendation Engines
Automated message systems	Conversational System