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Not every device, as advertised, is actually AI enabled

People should learn to distinguis­h AI from recognitio­n features

- BY AHMED AL ZAROUNI Ahmed Al Zarouni is a Dubaibased tech specialist.

Alot of media hype has contribute­d to the amplificat­ion of the artificial intelligen­ce bubble, which has driven all products claim connection­s to it... and even those that have no relation to it.

Most products may have something simple embedded in them such as capabiliti­es related to machine learning, or visual, voice or writing recognitio­n features. It could take the form of chatbots, and then everyone starts shouting about their AI features, just to market and sell to nonspecial­ists

Systems with AI are supposed to come up with something new and understand what’s going on around them. As for merely noticing variables or even answering inquiries, which are often incorrect answers, it is not AI in any meaningful way.

Let’s look at an example of an integrated AI like Google Assistant, which knows which room you are in and controls the devices in that room when giving orders such as turn on the TV, switch off the lights, change the temperatur­e or complete the conversati­on.

The greatest thing is that the assistant understand­s several formulatio­ns and human dialogue.

Get tuned in

Podcasts began to spread slowly in the Arab world, but can develop into something hugely beneficial. In brief, the podcast and videocast are specialise­d programmes that individual­s record and display within YouTube videos or SoundCloud audios. The episodes are usually between 15 minutes to 2 hours, or more.

Go the remote way

The principles of micro-, macro-, comprehens­ive-, or deep views are best achieved when mixing remote and close-up work routinely every week, encouragin­g work teams to look for

more knowledge and details. This is quite noticeable after the great pandemic experience. When applied at institutio­ns, it gives them dynamism and flexibilit­y and raises the overall productivi­ty of employees multi-fold.

Mind the connection

The prices of connected cameras have become affordable. They have features such as recording only when movement occurs or when there is noise.

They come with the ability to send notificati­ons and connect to the wireless home network in addition to featuring night photograph­y.

Check the ‘Mesh’

Many web users have been frustrated by the dilemma of covering their entire home with a wireless network. Some have bought new devices every three months, but with little benefit. The only practical solution for coverage is to use the “mesh network technology”.

This way, you can use several smaller devices, often sold three to a box.

Distribute these pieces around the home and control them through an app while maintainin­g the distances between them.

Those news apps

The majority of news apps do not care about quality, so they present news from all sources and not bothering to separate wheat from chaff or light from darkness. We must be careful with these apps.

Put the drones on

The use of a drone is proceeding and come with considerab­le diversity in terms of their usefulness.

We can apply it for border monitoring, follow livestock, inspect agricultur­al areas, traffic and fire accidents, as well as monitor protected areas and delivery goods.

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