QUESTION

Artificial intelligence’s impact on society is widely debated. Many argue that AI improves the
quality of everyday life by doing routine and even complicated tasks better than humans can,
making life simpler, safer, and more efficient. Others argue that AI poses dangerous privacy
risks, exacerbates racism by standardizing people, and costs workers their jobs, leading to
greater unemployment.
What is your stance on this debate?
 Artificial intelligence can be defined in a lot of different ways as a lot of definitions have surfaced
over the recent decades because it can be understood in different ways. McCarthy (2004) states that
Artificial Intelligence “is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially
intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand
human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to biologically observable methods."
As training data has become more readily available, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence has
grown increasingly beneficial. The size of ML/AI models has increased over time as computer
technology and software infrastructure have become more advanced. Over time, ML/AI has
effectively resolved more applications with growing precision. This research will discuss how AI
improves people's everyday lives with its advantages and benefits to humankind.

AI improves human lives in many different ways. One way in which AI does that is by
being available 24/7. Hess (2019) tells us that numerous studies have shown that most people are
only productive for about three to four hours a day. When humans work, they require breaks and
rest breaks so that they can balance their personal and professional lives. On the other hand, AI
can operate continuously without rest, they can multitask with accuracy and think far more
quickly than humans can and they can also even undertake boring repetitive tasks with ease and
without getting bored or tired (Duggal, 2022).

Not only that, but AI also reduces human error. Because people err occasionally, the term
"human error" was coined. For example, when humans are doing tasks like data entry, they can
get tired and they can enter wrong data which can lead to many consequences. But since
computers are properly and carefully programmed and tasted, they don't commit these errors.
With artificial intelligence, choices are made using a certain set of algorithms and information
that has already been obtained. As a result, mistakes are decreased and there is an opportunity to
achieve accuracy with a higher level of precision.

Other people may argue that AI seems to take jobs from humans and cause unemployment.
A first glance at a study from France also confirms these suspicions, James et al (2019). That
argument may entirely look at AI as being robots that are used in industries. But it's important to
remember that while every AI system may be thought of as a robot, not every robot incorporates
AI. Similar to general robotics, investments in AI might boost company development.
Fortunately, AI might not result in a loss in employment across all industries, unlike other robots
(Built In, 2021). To put it another way, although actual robots do some job-killing in some
industries, computers and AI don't have the same impact.

Another way in which AI improves the quality of everyday lives is that AI can be used for
security in homes or workplaces. If someone wants the best home security technology for their
house, it would be a good choice for them to go for alarm and video systems that are AI-
integrated. These AI systems can compile a list of regular visitors to your house using machine
learning and face recognition technologies and this will make it easy for the system to quickly
identify any strangers who intrude the house. The first step toward home automation is having
AI-powered security systems, which also provide many other valuable functions. These include
tracking the whereabouts of pets and alerting you when kids get home from school. These
systems are an excellent substitute for other subscription-based services that are comparable
since they can even automatically alert emergency services (Gardner, 2019).

AI also helps in self-driving and packing cars. Deep learning, a branch of AI, is used by self-
driving and parking cars to recognize the area around the car. Nvidia, which is an automaker
company, says artificial intelligence (AI) gives cars "the power to see, think, and learn, so they
can navigate a nearly infinite range of possible driving scenarios." (Mihajlovic, 2019). Many car-
making companies like BMW, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volvo, and Tesla already have the
company's AI-powered technology, which is set to transform driving habits and allow self-
driving cars that don’t even need much supervision as compared to humans. Our towns and cities
are designed for conventional cars. However, combining autonomous vehicles will result in
probably a lot of logistical problems. How does an automobile work to predict the behavior of
human drivers? In reality, there Installing sensors alongside roadways may be necessary. Or
Creating separate roadways for autonomous vehicles is one alternative. vehicles. Governments
will likely also need to adjust. instruction in driving that teaches students how to communicate
with autonomic automobiles while driving.

AI-powered plant health and weather monitoring systems can assist farmers in increasing
the productivity of their crops. This is also another way in which AI today improves human lives
daily. Robots, self-driving tractors, and drones are also being used in other areas of agriculture to
monitor crop health conditions and carry out harvesting, increasing agricultural productivity and
crop production (Horowitz, 2020). Ai in farming can be used to predict crop yield and price
forecasts, intelligent spraying by using AI sensors that can detect weed-affected areas and can
spray precisely the herbicides in the right regions, and crop and soil monitoring which involves
the use of machine learning and AI and crop health can be monitored for diagnosing pets/ soil
defects, nutrients and deficiencies in soil (Revanth, 2019).

In their research paper "Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination in Health Care”, Sharona
& Andy, state argue “Big data that is used to train machine-learning algorithms can have missing
and incorrect information, … poor data quality inevitably leads to poor AI algorithm
performance, sometimes expressed as the "garbage in garbage out" principle” which supports the
argument that AI is also able to make errors in many ways if the algorithms provided are not as
accurate. This issue can easily be solved by improving algorithm designs, validations, and
monitoring processes which includes making sure that AI is fed with accurate algorithms
according to what it's going to do and also by deploying several prototypes to make sure that all
errors in the systems are dealt with before the system is deployed for the public to use.

Artificial Intelligence, in particular, has established its prominence everywhere and

incorporated a massive difference in our everyday lives. There are a lot more developments to
follow in the upcoming years, redefining the way the world operates. With the goal of
developing clever machines-devices and systems capable of executing complicated tasks that
frequently need human intellect in a way that matches or exceeds the capabilities of humans-
artificial intelligence, or AI, is a field of computer science that combines several disciplines. All
in all, everyday tasks like communicating with friends, utilizing email, or using ride-sharing
services are made easier by artificial intelligence (AI), which drives several applications and
services. Knowing that most of us use AI daily and have for many years may give you some
peace of mind if you have concerns about its use.
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