I know it’s hard but make it your only choice

Hello, I think after reading tons of articles from different authors and publishers, I got to know one thing in common.

You can only achieve the quality of your content if the quantity of your content is large.

Only this way, you can improve your craft. No matter in which field you are, just try and keep on trying. Learn and Implement.

No one cares if you are feeling lazy,

No one cares, if you are tired,

No one cares, if you are depressed,

No one cares, if you are sick,

But yes, people will care for good content to feed in.

Don’t ask or beg them to clap, make your content so good they don’t forget to clap.

In my earlier articles, I used to ask readers to clap if they liked it. But I think, if I write fine articles and apply strategies to reach the audience, they will respect the content and clap by themselves.

So make one mandatory rule for yourself. No matter in which situation you are, just write daily for two hours at night.

If you are at home, then open your laptop and start writing

If too tired to open the laptop, pick a pen and paper write and then next morning write them on your laptop

If traveling, then close social media and open your notepad. Decide on any topic and just write.

So have happy writing.

AI makes our machines more interactive and intelligent. It improves the quality of the product with its significant speed, accuracy, and precision. It has vast potential in advancing the machines, that’s why it opens the gates for infinite possibilities in technology.

Arthur C. Clarke(Science writer) in his book, “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of Possible” stated that

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

There is no doubt AI surprises us with features that are not less than a magic. It makes all machines smart and automate repetitive work efficiently. This is the reason, many companies and software industries are embedding AI into their technologies.

Let’s see some more magical advancements through Artificial Intelligence in various industries:

1. Autonomous cars run on the roads without any human intervention. This technology is improving day-by-day with the advancement of artificial intelligence.

2. Businesses are tracking their sales using AI. It provides suggestions to improve the quality of products using customer experience and data.

3. The health industry can implement AI into their machines which helps them in early diagnostics of diseases with advanced technology.

4. Electronic devices like mobile phones and laptops become more intelligent by making themselves human friendly and interactive. Using Artificial Intelligence, they detect false authentication into the systems and ensures security.

5. Video streaming platforms recommend videos based on customer feedback and video seeing habits. This is only possible with the help of Machine Learning and artificial intelligence.

The list goes on. AI is so close to us that we can assure our future in safe and smart hands. To understand more about it, first, understand what basically artificial intelligence is. For that in this article we cover topics:

· What is artificial intelligence?

· How machine learning and deep learning are related to AI?

· Investment of companies in AI

Pretty less. Right? You will understand everything important to AI through this.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

In short, artificial intelligence makes your application more advance which can interact to solve complex problems. AI uses extensive data and information and processes it through developed algorithms.

Algorithms are specially designed to solve different kinds of problems. Then, processed data resulted in useful output, which adds to the advance feature.

Artificial Intelligence uses machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) to master intelligence at the highest level possible.

You probably have read many blogs where terms — AI, ML, and DL are used interchangeably. This makes you think how they are associated and what’s their role in AI?

Let’s understand it in a simple way using diagrams.

How Machine and Deep learning are related to artificial intelligence?

Machine Learning and Deep Learning are known as the subsets of AI. We can also say that both, ML and DL are the means to achieve AI.

First, let’s understand Machine Learning most simply with an example of a baby.

If you teach a baby about animals, what you tell him?

Ø You will show him a dog, cat, pig, cow, buffalo, etc.

Ø You tell him to call them animals because they are different from us

Ø Give them some more reason to call them animals, such that they have tails, paws, and big ears.

A child will learn how animals are different from humans and why they are called so and feed this information in his mind. Next time when you ask he recalls his memory and tells you this is an animal.

In the same way, we train machines to recognize certain input data and make them learn certain features to differentiate from others. Feeding similar kind of information to recognize their features, makes them learn and identify accordingly.

Similarly, Mobile phones use machine learning, where they are fed with information on various objects, speeches, and languages. When they get input related to the already inserted information, they identify it by looking into their memory. The main purpose of ML is to make machines to learn by themselves based on the provided data.

On the other hand, deep learning is machine learning, but the difference lies in the way it processes the information. Here algorithms are developed which mimics the human brain. The human brain has a network of neurons and they transmit signals through them, similarly, we develop an artificial neural network that helps in transferring information quite fast.

If you want to know more about it, check this link.

Dr. Michael J. Garbade has explained well in his article.

“DL can automatically discover the features to be used for classification, ML requires these features to be provided manually.

Furthermore, in contrast to ML, DL needs high-end machines and considerably big amounts of training data to deliver accurate results.”

It stated that you need to provide data manually in the case of ML but DL is capable to discover the features automatically. But DL needs high-end machines and lots of training data it would be difficult to implement DL properly. That’s why ML is built to overcome it.

Depending on their capabilities and different technologies, we need either ML or DL or both to achieve artificial intelligence.

Thus, making ML and DL as a base, we can climb the mountain of artificial intelligence to make our machines smart enough to interact with humans.

Investment of companies in AI

From the past two to three years, many renowned companies are investing in artificial intelligence. Companies like Google, Amazon, Tesla, and Netflix are way ahead in satisfying their customers with their intelligent applications. Even the Baidu and Alibaba, (revenue generated companies of china) invested huge amounts of funds in building good artificial intelligent platform.

If you are good at analyzing statics and figures, also have good knowledge of the stock market, you can check the impact of AI on the stock market due to its increasing demand.

Let’s see how companies have implemented Artificial Intelligence.

1. Netflix

Today Netflix is the largest online video streaming platform with approximately 150 million subscribers worldwide. But do you know what forces its customers to subscribe to it, every month?

Netflix applies Artificial intelligence with big data and machine learning to give unmatchable experience to its customers. It first records the user’s suggestions by enquiring about their interest. Later on, with the user’s activity, their smart technologies record all the data and by applying the best AI algorithms they recommend the relevant movies according to their likes and interest.

So what Netflix does with AI:

· Understand its subscribers

· Recommend new movies

· Auto-generate thumbnails

· Streaming optimization

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Understanding its customers and suggesting videos according to their taste, bound people to watch things more and more on. It makes them regular subscribers.

2. Tesla

Tesla produces autonomous vehicles driven by electricity. It introduced the selfless driving concept in its cars. Using NVIDIA chips, Tesla has made its own AI hardware that eases the manufacturing of advanced machines.

Embedded sensors in the car, collects extensive data that helps in planning the maps and identifying the obstacles in the surrounding. With the help of a machine and the deep learning vast amount of data get processed. Then, output defines paths and directions to be followed by cars.

3. Google

Google uses artificial intelligence to make its products smarter. Every other product in Google is AI-based. Google’s speech and image recognitions largely build on deep learning.

Google Home and Google assistance on the phone is the perfect example of artificial intelligence.

Google also introduced TensorFlow, which is an open-source platform, effective in building machine learning models. One can learn, setup, and deploy machine learning projects using it.

Using it, you can also deploy your project anywhere. Know more about TensorFlow. Google itself uses TensorFlow for building many types of AI applications.

4. Amazon

Amazon is a good player in applying AI to its shopping portal. It suggests products to its customers according to their needs and searches history.

Recently, Amazon also opened a cashier-less grocery store. It is totally based on AI where it can automatically detect what the customer has picked and add the item to your virtual cart. When they leave the store, their cart gets checked out automatically using their added payment mode. The grocery store is amazing. Check more about it here.

5. Microsoft

Microsoft has applied AI successfully in its applications:

Ø HealthNext Initiative: Using Artificial intelligence and cloud computing, Microsoft invests in the health industry, which aims to create health care innovations.

Ø Microsoft Office 365: In the Microsoft Office suite, applications are embedded with advanced features with the use of AI.

For example, ‘Ink Analysis’ is the feature that allows you to convert your handwritten text and drawings into a professional-looking slide of PowerPoint. Similarly, you can use this feature in MS word.

Ø Cortana: Cortana is known as “Your personal productivity assistance”. It is available in Windows devices and Microsoft apps. It has effective speech and language recognition with the help of AI which helps its users to be more productive and organized.

In this way, Microsoft is heading its way actively in the field of AI, to generate advance and useful intelligent products.

6. NVIDIA

NVIDIA is leading in AI by making deep learning chips and investing early into it. It is estimated that the market of chipsets for deep learning will increase from $1.6 billion to $66.3 billion from 2017 to 2025. NVIDIA has already embarked its journey to dominating the AI market for the next two years.

Nvidia produces AI graphics processors and chips which aids in extra computing power which is necessary for driving numerous algorithms in achieving artificial intelligence. That’s why many major companies are collaborating with NVIDIA to entrust their intelligent work.

For example, TensorFlow is Google’s deep learning frame provided by NVIDIA that enables users to program GPUs.

There are many more companies that are developing their products using AI.

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Reference:

https://www.livemint.com/Technology/pazN8zgmjWCoS7o84Lsz2H/How-Nvidia-is-surfing-the-AI-wave.html

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/06/20/heres-how-microsoft-is-investing-in-ai.aspx

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/02/28/microsofts-focus-transforming-healthcare-intelligent-health-ai-cloud/#:~:text=Last%20year%20we%20embarked%20on,artificial%20intelligence%20and%20cloud%20computing.

How Social Media Prevents Mindfulness?

Social media gift us a restless mind

In the book “The Essentialism”, Greg Mckeown, stated that,

“To operate at the highest level of contribution requires that you deliberately tune in to what is important in the here and now. The way of the essentialist is to tune into the present.”

What do you think, social media shifts your focus to the present moment or future or nowhere?

It’s been three months since I have left social media. Initially, I didn’t understand how to invest my time without Instagram. I was addicted to using and scrolling through Instagram unnecessarily. So after a restless day, I asked myself, what can I do which will help me productively?

I already have a Quora app, but never used it as regularly as I am doing nowadays. And guess what, I have built good reading skills and increased my knowledge of various other fields. Moreover, now I am writing much better with focus and my mind is peaceful enough to invest time in creating good content daily.

We can’t imagine the world without social media which connects everyone. Especially, in the time of the pandemic, it’s a tool that shows tremendous help in connecting everyone. But, 70 % of people, don’t know, how to use it. People are just using social media for passing their time since they don’t have anything else to do. Whenever they are free, the first thing that comes to their mind is to check the phone. Then, they check every social media app to get all things into them.

People sitting in the airports or waiting halls are much interested in catching news from their phones instead of interacting with people besides them. But, they can chat for long hours. They have more online friends than in reality. It proves one of the famous sayings,

” What you focus on, grows.”

This is how we are building our social skills!!

Effects Inside you

Do you notice things inside your head after being active for long hours on social media? Do you feel energetic and fresh or restless and tired? I think you already know the answer.

Nowadays, People are so restless that they never prefer to leave their minds empty or free of thoughts. Either they have work to complete or they are online. Checking daily what everyone else is doing becomes a part of their life.

Similarly, social media adversely affect your focus power and patience. These two traits are the most important if you want to pursue something big in your life. Without focus, you can’t give your 100 percent to any task. Can you tap your full potential without focus?

When you pursue your goal, you need the perseverance to walk through all ups and downs. Consistently, you need to improve yourself, your crafts, your mindset, and your need to set some realistic goals. All this needs infinite patience to work and rework to improve yourself. Improvement needs the effort to put in whereas if you want to destroy yourself, just sit and relax. Let’s explore in more detail, how social media is impacting our focus and patience.

Focus

When we scroll down from one post to another, we feed our minds with different things instantly. Your mind becomes adaptive to such changing things which are changing continuously and entertaining your mind. But when you sit for work, it doesn’t have multiple things to show you.

It has a draft or rough, soft copy that needs to be developed into creative content or efficient code. This makes you restless. When a person feeds his mind with social media content, he got addicted to such entertaining things and thus starts losing his focus. He considers the work as boring and social media becomes his way of life to have entertainment.

This makes him lose his creativity in his work and thus the quality of work deteriorates.

Patience:

Maintaining patience towards moving your goal is highly important. Most of the people don’t have the patience to work daily towards their goal. They need instant success, instant good result, instantly they want to find hidden talent without being realized, it takes constant practice to build their talent. It’s not just finding it and becoming successful overnight. Therefore, One of the quotes stated that

“ You don’t discover true self- you create it.”

But do they have that much patience to create themselves?

But social media give you instant attention. It makes you shine instantly using some lights, a good camera, and sometimes few dialogues. It makes you feel good. Seeing everybody’s good post wants you to crave success like them and have a luxurious lifestyle like them (Though often, they are just pretending to be rich). Some platforms offer videos one after the other defining different content in all. Do you think they will help you to maintain patience?

When you work towards your goals and fail once, you started feeling- I am not becoming as they are. Am I lacking somewhere? You start comparing your life and feeling bad for yourself. Just see how negative cycle social media builds.

According to Blaise Pascal,

” All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

He is absolutely right because patience is built by sitting quietly and understanding things — -How things are happening around you? Do you have control over them? How to create things for others? How to build a business by understanding customer’s needs?

But when it’s time to sit quietly and contemplate, people are busier in scrolling social media and making their mind restless. So, to inculcate sheer dedication and focus with a handful of patience to pursue infinite things, you must know how social media affects your mind.

My Experience with Social Media

Though I am not using social media much, it doesn’t mean that I am totally inactive. Sometimes when I want to relax, I would like to know what my friends are doing and take updates about them. You know my response to their content increased.

Now I can reply to all the good stories and posts which make me feel good and lively. Now I am not comparing myself to them instead, enjoying what they are doing. One day within two weeks is enough to get all updates around you. You must know how to utilize your time with social media effectively.

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