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Home and Service Robots

Within the next couple of decades, you will be able to witness the advent of AI machines with the ability
to deliver packages or clean offices. The robots will make use of the Cloud connection to share data for
accelerated learning. Moreover, the use of low-cost 3D sensors will aid in speeding up the development
of perpetual technology. Also, these machines will be able to better interact with humans, owing to
progress in speech-comprehension techniques.

Predictive Policing

Policing is yet another domain where the future of AI can have a major stake. Within a decade, cities will
fully rely on AI technologies for detecting and predicting crime. Surveillance agencies will use the power
of AI in automatically processing CCTV and drone footages, which in turn will help in easily and swiftly
identifying anomalous behaviour.

Space Exploration
Artificial Intelligence is not a new technology for NASA, as the international body for space has already
utilised unmanned shuttles, rovers, and probes to explore distant galaxies, which could have otherwise
taken several years. These AI-powered vehicles can identify obstacles, like craters, and find safe paths
of travel around them. For future, AI can be instrumental in times of emergency, as the technology
can help astronauts identify and prevent problems before they occur. Data and photographs collected

from the Martian surface were earlier furnished by autonomous land rovers, reflecting on the scope of
utilising AI for space exploration.

Internet of Things

The term Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the collective network of connected devices and the technology
that facilitates communication between devices and the cloud, as well as between the devices themselves.
Thanks to the advent of inexpensive computer chips, high bandwidth telecommunication, and AI, we
now have billions of devices connected to the internet. This means everyday devices like toothbrushes,
vacuums, cars, and machines can use sensors to collect data and respond intelligently to users.

Database Subject Enrichment

Artificial Intelligence has become the buzz-word in Information Technology. No field or sphere of activity
is untouched by it. Even authors and movie-makers seem enthralled by AI so much that so many books
and movies have been produced that describe use of AI in different forms.
• Moneyball is a non-fiction book that explores how the Oakland Athletics used statistical analysis to
outperform teams with larger budgets.
• In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, H.Y.D.R.A (disguised as S.H.I.E.L.D) develops helicarriers that use
data to determine and eliminate threats over the globe.
• In The Dark Knight, Batman uses a sonar device that can spy on all of Gotham City. The data is gathered
from the mobile phones of people within the city.

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