"We're on a path to build AI that can interpret images as reliably as humans can," predicts professor Pieter Abbeel, an expert in robotics and AI research from the University of California, Berkeley.
For the last 50-60 years, people completely got used to the fact that physically strong robots work in factories — e.g., making cars and electronics.
Artificial intelligence development had a breakthrough during 1990s-2000s, and today we confidently live in the age of big data and neural networks.
Contemporary AI systems can see, learn, access situations, make decisions, and react.
What fields are going to be the first to change in 2022 and the upcoming years?
"The three big ones I anticipate are warehouse pick and pack operations, recycling sortation, and crop harvesting/care," says professor Abbeel.
The capabilities of AI keep extending further, thanks to IT science areas like Computer Vision and Deep Learning.
In other words, we are witnessing a quiet and mostly invisible revolution.
Good or bad, the future will tell. But one thing is certain: robotics and AI have been gradually changing our lives and will continue to do so.
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