Hardin, W. (2017, April). Artificial intelligence and its impact on machine vision.

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< At the point when the idea of "considering machines" developed in the 1950s, warnings about this new field of artificial intelligence (AI) soon took after. The dread of the ascent of the machines has played out in popular culture from that point forward, from the notable 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" to "Ex Machina”. While AI still hasn't assumed control of society, upgrades in information capacity and processing power have empowered the improvement of intellectual frameworks like IBM Watson that are intended to take the mystery out of basic human decision making. Most present cycles of AI handle more humble undertakings like object recognition. The efforts of AI is to continuously solve everyday solutions, however the question is if AI is ready for use in industrial applications.

           In the article written, the main arguments that are covered are to do with the emergence of AI into society, and what industries have currently benefited from it. The writer explains that in order for AI to help various industries, it will need years of more work and bigger investments from the venture capitalists, like Google (Control Engineering, 2017). The article mentions how currently AI has been a major benefit in the image processing industry, as the deep learning software has totally changed the industry. Deep Learning, unlike traditional softwares, allows the AI to repeatedly create the most pristine image processing, unlike human mistakes that occur often. The writer emphasizes how AI has benefitted the machine vision industry massively, and its only time when AI tackles other industries.
            Another industry that the article mentions is the food inspecting industry. Thanks to the emerging technology of AI, it has benefitted not only deep learning, but the system of inspecting food, through proper AI algorithms, that can constantly catch the bad and good foods in systems that inspect food such as meat factories. This is much more beneficial that having the traditional

method of individuals inspecting foods, and constantly letting by bad food due to human error. Overall, if larger investments are funded to the research and development of artificial intelligence, it can tackle several more industries. Currently, AI has only benefitted and made the machine vision industry only more efficient and costly. Additionally, food companies are beginning to realize this technology and its benefits, for a much consistent outcome of inspecting foods through artificial intelligence.

            One major weakness found in this article is the lack of information on the industries that have seem to be having a difficult time with transitioning into artificial intelligence. Additionally, the article states that the development of artificial intelligence should be taken care of by the “heavy lifters”, meaning that companies like Google should be funding AI. The article says that it would take three to five more years to see AI a significant part of society. However, if the article is saying so, they why only allow the heavy lifters to do the funding? If multiple companies and associations work together like Space X, Amazon, Google and etc, we would see artificial intelligence take a quick speed into all industries.
            Overall, the question that the article begins with “is AI ready for use in industrial applications?” is not truly answered in the article, however mentioning the development of AI within deep learning machine vision systems, and the food inspection systems. Readers can only assume from the reading that the development of AI is continuously growing and only time will tell when it will be a significant part of our life.

References 1. Hardin, W. (2017, April). Artificial intelligence and its impact on machine vision. Retrieved March 25, 2018, from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer? vid=9&sid=a1976f2d-9e22-4608-904f-a6a8fc144673@sessionmgr4008>