Technology is being leveraged in various fields. Photo: File
If the current era is called the era of artificial intelligence, it will not be wrong.
Its involvement in our lives has increased to such an extent that it is now impossible to imagine the world without it. If we examine carefully, we will come to the conclusion that from health to education, from technology to energy, from office management to essay writing, from research to science, from business to purchasing, any such field. We don’t see one that doesn’t use artificial intelligence. Below we review some of the major areas in which artificial intelligence plays an important role.
Public health
Public health is an important field in which artificial intelligence can play an important role. A country like Pakistan where health facilities for common people are non-existent while communicable and non-communicable diseases are common. Many diseases go undiagnosed. Artificial intelligence can easily diagnose and treat a wide range of diseases.
AI-powered devices can scan and analyze X-rays and MRI reports. By analyzing the patient’s data, doctors can detect any potential risk and take the right remedy at the right time. In this way, the disease is treated before it takes root.
Education
Artificial intelligence can also play an important role in the development of education. Pakistan has the second largest number of out-of-school children in the world. While the educational quality of the schools is also not enviable. Even today, our education system is outdated and based on imitation which is not able to meet the demands of modern age. This is the reason why the graduates after passing out from the universities are looking for jobs.
Pakistan’s education system is facing problems such as limited resources, inequality and shortage of qualified teachers. We can easily solve all these problems with the help of artificial intelligence. For example, AI-powered tools can analyze each student’s individual learning ability and approach and then recommend courses and teachers based on his or her abilities and skills. In this way, each student can learn at his own pace and is not pressured by not being a part of a large class.
Quick and comprehensive analysis of student performance and timely feedback and feedback from teachers also gives us an opportunity to raise the quality of education. Another advantage of artificial intelligence in education is that it does not require massive resources and infrastructure. With the help of just a mobile or laptop and internet, you can learn any subject from the world’s best educational institutes and experts at home.
Economy/Business
AIM can play a role in economic field. A large part of Pakistan’s population is still outside the banking sector and tax net. The reason for this is lack of awareness about banking or lack of access to traditional banking. With the help of digital wallets and mobile banking, a large section of the population is already connected to a large extent, with more potential still to come.
AI chatbots provide 24-hour customer service and support to customers, increasing their awareness and inclination towards banking. Moreover, it is also a convenient and cheap tool due to which it is quite popular among users.
AI is also widely used in e-commerce or online shopping where each user is getting more suggestions according to his/her preferences. These tools analyze each user individually and recommend new products based on their preferences and trends.
Most of you must have observed that when we go to buy an item on an e-commerce platform, their algorithms are familiar with you or your preferences to such an extent that they make recommendations. As you go on, you think this is what I need and when you come out of this marketplace you have ordered ten things instead of one.
Transportation
The transport system in Pakistan is very poor. The main reason for this is the lack of long-term planning. Every day we get news of traffic block or accidents on different roads for hours. But if AI is used in traffic management, with its help we can easily adapt it to our needs by analyzing the traffic signals and its patterns. The advantage of this would be that we would not see so many road closures or so many accidents.
The problem with developing countries like Pakistan has been that any technology is adopted much later, when something is obsolete in the rest of the world, it is just starting here. There is a need for our policy makers to understand that the future is artificial intelligence and the development will be done by the nations that adopt it as soon as possible. Just as electricity and internet changed the direction of the entire world, artificial intelligence will also be a game changer in the next few years.
Since the beginning of time, humans have been in danger of being threatened by the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) of their own creation. That’s why in March, 400 of the world’s biggest businessmen, including Elon Musk, wrote a letter to various governments and advised them to immediately stop work on all artificial intelligence projects. According to these experts, AI will replace humans.
In recent days, the Italian government has banned OpenAI’s chatbot GPT, while other European countries are also considering legislation in this regard. There is no denying that artificial intelligence has disadvantages, but when we take a closer look at AI, it is clear that the advantages of AI outweigh its disadvantages.
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