What you can do with artificial intelligence?

Answer 1

What can one Not.

Intelligence has been ( for a long time ) part of something with flesh and soul

When one thinks of bringing this intelligence out and making it available to the public the possibilities are truly endless.

Since the definition itself involves the word "Automate" I must say that AI can be used to automate anything to everything. ( Taking certain constraints into consideration )

Lets take a Few examples as to what it can do and what its already doing :

1. You can have your Car with AI so that it gives the shortest route possible to your destination. ( Most modern Cars with GPS take advantage of AI for this )
2. Cars can drive to your location when destination is specified
3. Schedules in schools or hospitals can be automated
4. Today's Robotics involves AI to recognize and most importantly to react when given a situation
5. Complex Expert Systems can be developed using Artificial Intelligence which help in proper decision making . For example when symptoms of a disease are put forward - the Expert System can help decided what disease the patient has
6. Chatbots are simplest derivatives of Expert Systems ( mostly used to give responses when a particular pattern is matched against what user says ) involve AI . Today's offline customer support systems use AI for such Question/Answering Systems.
7. AI Assistants can help people on their desktop using natural language processing. Rough examples would be Eliza a female psychiatrist and Ultra Hal
8. Artificial Intelligence is strongly applied in defence services , even in cases where critical strategies have to be developed
9. Since AI involves some neural networking ( not always ) thus Image/Face/Character/Voice recognition is also a part of AI. Today your mobile after/while it takes a picture or even facebook , Google+ , orkut and many other socializing sites help you tag pictures - Yes AI has helped these sites recognize the face(s) of people involved in the picture(s)
10. The games you play , be it chess or any other game , with computers ( as opponent ) are actually AI entities that have been coded well enough to play with you and in most cases beat the user at "Expert Levels"
11. AI can be ( and is being ) used in space exploration but not limited to just space exploration it can also be used to automate machines to perform field tasks and collect important information on their own
12. AI is used to solve many problems today like planning , learning , reasoning which cannot be achieved through other methods
13. Today's Weather Forecast uses AI for weather prediction by feeding vast amount of information to underlining neural networks.
14. Theorem Solving in computer science uses AI at its core.
15. Text to Speech conversion is done using Artificial Intelligence ( you might have already confronted this technology at its primitive stage while using MS Word )
16. Design of Fault Tolerant System ( which corrects or modifies part of their system ) . Which for now is being applied is most hardware designs
17. Information Retrieval or Text Summarization is achieved using AI. Online Surveys conducted apply AI to lead to fuzzy logic conclusions
18. Today you will see Google Translators , Bing Translator ( whatever its called ) . They translate between languages using principles of AI
19. Natural Language processing is also a major field of AI where the Human Language ( be it any ) is processed in order to enable Human Computer Interaction
20. Artificial Intelligence helps find trend in Stock Market and also is used to analyse various part of financial information collected by Banks worldwide

And yes if you googled this question and you reached here - You just made Google use AI for information retrieval.