Social Media

Social Media has become an integral part of our daily lives as a medium of connecting with our loved ones, making new connections, and being updated on happenings around us. Facebook’s AI helps its users to translate the various posts on their Newsfeed to the user’s preferred language. Twitter’s AI uses the user’s past activity(likes, comments, and retweets) to recommend the most relevant tweets to the timelines of the user. Instagram also uses its AI with the help of relevant tags and other trending information, to help the user find photos and videos of a particular activity, place, event, restaurant, and discovery experience. one other use of AI used by all the various social media platforms is the curbing of cyberbullying by identifying various keywords and phrases that are tagged as hateful speech.

Intelligent Virtual Assistant

IOS has its ‘Siri’ and Android has its ‘Google Assistant’ with Amazon also having ‘Alexa’. all these virtual assistants are powered by AI that’s able to translate your voice commands into binary, a language that computers understand. these commands are then executed such as the playing of music, making calls, creating a remainder, and shopping. these assistants have become popular in recent years and they’re here to stay.

Commuting Recommendations

In these modern times, community from one place to another is not a simple process as everyone wants to avoid traffic, this is where the navigation apps come to play. the most popular one is Google Maps, which uses AI to analyze the current movement of traffic to provide the route to reach your destination within the shortest time. this app also takes information from users and news outlets on reports about construction works and accidents to help make better recommendations.

Spam Filters

Spam’s origins can be traced back to 1864 when the first unsolicited electronic communications were allegedly sent by telegraph. These were dubious investment offers sent to wealthy Americans. Today, this is an issue of the past, the spam filter has to be one of the important aspects of our inbox as it is powered by Al that identifies key phrases and words in past spam messages to use to filter current and future emails to prevent the user from being spammed.

Facial Recognition

About a decade ago, the concept of facial recognition was only a thing found in science fiction movies. Facial recognition is used by both operating systems and software applications. Various operating systems use this for security measures to prevent intruders from accessing your phone, whiles applications such as Tiktok and Snapchat use this AI for facial identification for the usage in their various filters available to users.