AI is undoubtedly the biggest buzzword these days, since the release of ChatGPT last year and then reaching an all-time high at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Computex keynote. Now, people are anticipating what comes next for AI and what it can do for humanity, signaling an imminent change in how we as humans conduct our day-to-day lives.

In the past few months, we’ve seen more AI applications in the tech world, showcased in major exhibitions and used in everyday consumers’ lives. We’ll outline some of the more interesting applications that we noticed in business, health, food, and entertainment.

Business

AI is often used in business conferencing settings, incorporated into cameras and conferencing software. In providing different video conferencing display options like Smart Gallery, AI helps detect participants’ faces and displays them in equal proportions, facilitating an efficient, natural communication process. By ensuring that the face of each participant is visible to everyone, participants can communicate more freely and clearly.

Also, more businesses like Aira are creating AI facial recognition solutions for surveillance and workforce management systems. Placed at an entrance, the AI systems are applied in contactless access control, capable of recognizing employees, maintaining attendance records, registering visitor information, and identifying VIPs and blacklisted individuals. Some systems even include fever screening to maintain healthier work environments.

Health

For patient-doctor communication, AI applications exist in medical cameras to improve doctor-patient communication in telehealth. As acoustics during a telemedicine session can affect the communication process and sometimes even the diagnosis, AI use in acoustics reduces unwanted noise and provides clearer audio to improve communication. These cameras have high-quality audio and high-resolution lenses for the best presentation of details, so doctors can make better clinical decisions for their patients.

Because of the pandemic, many brands like MSI have spent time and resources developing disinfection robots for indoor areas. Many machines incorporate AI for site surveys, navigation route planning, human detection, and air and surface UV sterilization. This easily keeps the indoors clean and safe from viruses and bacteria, and in the future, people could potentially apply the technology to other special sites that would require disinfections, like hospitals or laboratories.

Food

Some brands are creating machines that sort food in the preliminary stages of food production. When raw materials such as coffee beans are obtained, they often need to undergo a selection process to eliminate beans with deficiencies like discoloration, fermentation, mold, and insect damage. Workers that do this manually would need to undergo repetitive work for long hours, which is time-consuming and mentally draining. An AI bean sorter would then organize the beans into good and defective beans automatically and accurately, eliminating the painful process of handpicking good and defective beans before roasting. This type of technology can be leveraged in other food processes in the future for factory quality control and other selection processes.

In restaurants, food ordering and preparation could be automated through AI, with companies like LaFresh creating kiosks equipped with multilanguage AI voice recognition so customers can speak to place orders. For store management, AI can calculate and forecast food usage, and in turn, reduce food waste and financial waste. AI can create and optimize complex processes in any food industry application, assisting to sift through large amounts of data efficiently and automatically.

Entertainment

For live performances, AI camera tracking technologies can follow specific performers to automatically stream and film performances without manual operation. These cameras can operate under different tracking modes, automatically adjusting the framing to catch the best angles of the performance.

On video platforms like YouTube, many have incorporated AI into their video screening process, helping workers to flag or remove inappropriate content. Though not perfect, it undoubtedly processes a significant amount of video content quicker than a human does, speeding up the identification of videos that do not comply with platform standards.

In gaming, generative AI can now be used to assist game developers in building NPC characters, creating convincing backstories and animation for the characters. This opens a whole new world to gamers as the games are no longer strictly limited to what the developers' script says, allowing games to unfold with many more possibilities.

What Could an AI Future Look Like?

We’ve only mentioned a few uses of AI in four select areas, but in the future, there will be many more use cases in all industries, streamlining different areas of our lives. Soon, we could be using AI voice control to automate camera operations during a video conference or presentation, employing AI image analysis to support medical examinations and food processing, and utilizing AI to create videos, movies, and games. In the distant future, the applications of generative AI could be even more extensive and bring even greater convenience to our lives. With these possibilities in mind, which AI applications are you the most excited about?