rams work with the user to learn their voice patterns. Once the users voice patterns are learned, the user can dictate what he or she wants to write into a microphone and the computer will type it using correct grammar and spelling. This program benefits the blind, people who cant type well because of arthritis, carpal-tunnel syndrome or some other disability. In addition to these people helping programs there are some that make society flow easier. For instance, credit card providers, telephone companies, mortgage lenders, banks, and the U.S. Government employ AI systems to detect fraud and quicken financial transactions (Hinrichs 28). This is extremely helpful since daily transactions are in the billions. These programs are able to keep track of peoples daily usage and can automatically determine whether or not the credit card holder is at his or her limit. Some stores have programs that can check to see how many transactions patrons have made with their credit card or checking account that day. If multiple checks of high amounts have been written or you have charged a lot to your account, the system will suggest that the employee ask for ID. This helps to prevent fraud and theft. While one might just be Christmas shopping and writing a lot of checks that day, it could very well be a thief who stole the credit card or check and is on a shopping spree. Another, maybe not beneficial, but interesting aspect of AI is the computer game. One can buy machines that can play master level chess for a few hundred dollars today. There is some AI in them, but they play well against people mainly through computation by looking at hundreds of thousands of positions in order to see which move is best. To beat a world champion by computation instead of skill requires the computer to be able to look at 200 million positions per second (Waltz). This same computation can be applied to any game where the user is playing against the computer. Ref...
