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Artificial intelligence can solve a wide variety of problems. Considering all the possible applications of AI can be overwhelming. I've found it helpful to cluster AI applications into eight broad categories:

1 Machine vision

2 Natural language processing (NLP) and voice platforms

3 Exploration and discovery

4 Better-informed decision-making

5 Predicting the future

6 Seeing the world through a new lens with super sensors

7 Solving complex problems by learning from experience

8 Creating and co-creating content

In all of these eight application categories, AI is used to find patterns and associations in data and to make statistical predictions. Each application uses this fundamental feature in different ways. Apply the associative capabilities of machine learning to images and you get machine vision; apply it to historical data and you get predictions; apply it to cursive text and you get handwriting recognition. In voice platforms, AIs trained on human speech determine what words you are saying. AIs trained on historical weather data are used to make predictions that inform the weather forecast.

Artificial intelligence finds important associations that we may not previously have discovered: the complex association between the molecular structure of a chemical compound and its physical properties, or the complex set of circumstances that lead to an outbreak of disease. This characteristic enables AI to solve problems that we don't yet know how to solve ourselves.

As we review each of the eight main applications of AI, think about how each one might impact your business, your life, and society at large.