AI Applications You Would Have Never Imagined – Part 2

We have mostly talked about the famous applications of Artificial Intelligence like Netflix, Amazon, Siri etc. But all of this fall short in comparison to the ones you are about to read. Let’s continue from where we left.

The fortuneteller

AI may know more about people than you ever imagined one day. AI can assertively predict if someone is gay or straight based on photographs of their face, thanks to an algorithm discovered by a Stanford University with 81% accuracy, and 74% accuracy for women. Facebook is using artificial intelligence bots that can save the lives of people at risk of committing suicide, by proactively identifying Facebook posts that could indicate suicidal tendencies. AI may know you are thinking of quitting your current job before Human Resources does. IBM has a solution that uses predictive analytics to identify personnel retention problems which identify common factors that cause its staff to quit, creating a quality score for each employee based on the projected probability that they will leave the company soon.

Photographs that become purchases

We often take a photo of something we like to find it or something similar in stores, but that doesn’t have to be so complicated anymore. Amazon, the giant e-commerce platform, has already incorporated a visual search option on its mobile application. It will show you identical products once you take a photo of the item you want. Buy it right away and it’s already in your hands. Thanks to AI, the time lag between those “moments of inspiration” and the eventual purchase will be eliminated.

AI has many such implementations that you would have never thought of. Keep watching this space for more.