What exactly is artificial intelligence?

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence. We can read and hear that our lives will soon be permeated with this technology, some are looking forward to it, others don't even know what it is about. Perhaps this is a great opportunity to get to know artificial intelligence a little better. Huawei explains it like this.

So what is 'artificial intelligence'? We already got our first impression after watching one of the science fiction movies anyway. But this is just our imagination, the truth is somewhat different. Contrary to the impression it gives, artificial intelligence is not exactly intelligent in the true sense of the word, because she is not capable of creative thinking and conscious creation. However, he can understand human speech, come to logical conclusions, calculate quickly and perform many activities that could be said with certainty to be a manifestation of intellectual abilities if the said activity was performed by a human.

Artificial intelligence can learn and the most important thing is that the software that uses machine learning technology contains this feature. This means that instead of programming a solution to every problem the software might encounter, it creates software code that can she 'invents' a way to cope with the new task, based on the database we provide to it and the information it collects itself. This mode of operation is supported by the technology that is part of it of Kirin 970 processors.

In the case of artificial intelligence that uses a chip with a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) inside Huawei's Kirin 970 processor, the software that controls the individual functions of the phone is developed, learned and improved based on the constant collection of information. If she encounters a new, unknown problem, she will learn the solution herself. If it turns out that a certain task can be done more efficiently, faster and better, artificial intelligence will develop the best possible solution with the help of machine learning.