However, there are great opportunities for improvement in the increasingly advanced ability of machines to evaluate language and even understand its content. The possible applications of such powerful models are already almost unlimited. It is important to understand the following. Language is no longer just analyzed, i.e. evaluated without understanding the content, but is represented using complex AI models and thus understood in terms of content. A huge difference in terms of the resulting possibilities.
Here are some scenarios of already established concepts. Imagine what else is possible if machines can understand us.
One new field is the area that deals with identifying an unconsciously one-sided view (bias, inclusion) or even discrimination and racism in companies. By specifically evaluating the language used in performance reports and other documents, it is hoped that this can be counteracted and thereby human interaction within the company can be bc data promoted. A really interesting and necessary approach that would not be realistically feasible without the use of AI.
Our perception shapes the world we live in
In the future, we will increasingly communicate and interact directly with machines. Alexa, Siri, Google, Cortana are just a few imperfect examples. Bots already make appointments over the phone, book tables in restaurants and the like. Soon, modern bots will be the less moody colleagues and the new normal - private perceptual world . Many everyday tasks will be taken over by virtual assistants.
But this disconnect will also lead to a change perception. Now a robot may represent the restaurant around the corner, rather than the human employee. The request for the outstanding monthly sales report will not be handled directly by the responsible colleague, but by his always cheerful and 100% professional office avatar.
But it is not only individuals who can be represented by their digital image. Companies are forced to use AI-based systems to be able to deal with this new diversity appropriately. There are already influencers without real bodies. A well-known example is the virtual beauty named Shudu: “The World's First Digital Supermodel” with her own Instagram account . With 144,000 followers (as of September 2018), she is setting a clear example of another new trend that shows the takeover of another human focus area by the machine. From here, the step to a completely autonomous, AI-controlled hologram is not far.