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Guide to Ai
You’ll find Artificial Intelligence (Ai) everywhere. So it’s good to understand what it is, where you can find it and how it can help you.
What is Ai?
Ai lets computers perform tasks and solve problems like humans. So, they can recognise objects or patterns, learn from experience and make decisions independently. This has all kinds of amazing applications!
Ai in phones
Ai is already packed into every inch of our phones – taking care of everything from facial recognition to live translation. It’s helping us take better pictures and edit images in seconds. And that’s just for starters.
Ai in computers
Ai can help get us be more productive day-to-day, by summarising emails, transcribing meetings and more. It’s also an important part of keeping us secure online and even improving battery life. Plus, Ai is making the latest games look better too.
What are Ai agents?
They may sound shadowy, but Ai agents are actually just the virtual assistants you’re probably already familiar with. Here are some of the big players.
Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence is built into iPads, iPhones and Macs and is designed to help you get creative. Writing Tools give you a hand finding the right words and you can create pics that’ll match your text perfectly with Image Wand.
Google Gemini
Google Gemini comes with on Android phones and Chromebooks but is also available in an app form. Gemini can process up to 1,500 pages at once. That means it’s really good at summarising lots of information and answering follow-up questions.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is particularly handy if you use Microsoft 365 apps - like Word, Excel or Powerpoint. Copilot can do all sorts of things in these programs with just a few instructions – like creating a presentation or a spreadsheet.
Amazing things you can try with Ai
There’s no need to wait to be wowed by Ai. Here are a few things you can do right now…
Edit photos
Google magic Eraser
No need to be a Photoshop pro to edit pics. Ai can enhance images for you – whether that’s retouching portraits, taking care of blurriness or even removing photobombers!
Translate in real-time
Samsung Galaxy S24 series
Real-time translation has been a sci-fi dream for years. But Live Translate on the Samsung Galaxy S24 series can now give an audio translation on voice calls.
Create art
Microsoft Cocreator
Lots of text-to-image tools let you create unique art with a quick description.
Future of Ai
The potential applications of Ai are mind blowing. But here are some things we’re excited about:
Exploring space
Ai can process and analyse huge amounts of data from telescopes and satellites – pushing new discoveries further and faster. Ai also makes decisions onboard intergalactic spacecraft and Mars rovers.
Diagnosing diseases with smell
Ai is being trained to recognise the presence of compounds in human breath that are warning signs of specific diseases. So, doctors can intervene at an early stage without the need for expensive equipment.
Decoding ancient languages
Artificial neural networks are predicting missing words in ancient manuscripts to accelerate the translation of long dead languages. Its even being used to translate China’s Oracle Bone Script - an ancient text carved into cattle bones and turtle shells!