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Artificial Intelligence

The document is an assignment cover for a BSc. Honours in Psychology student discussing the usefulness of artificial intelligence (AI) in studying human thinking and behavior. It highlights how AI influences cognitive processes, enhances decision-making in business, and promotes human capabilities while emphasizing the importance of ethical considerations in AI development. The assignment concludes that AI significantly contributes to understanding human cognition and behavior.

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Artificial Intelligence

The document is an assignment cover for a BSc. Honours in Psychology student discussing the usefulness of artificial intelligence (AI) in studying human thinking and behavior. It highlights how AI influences cognitive processes, enhances decision-making in business, and promotes human capabilities while emphasizing the importance of ethical considerations in AI development. The assignment concludes that AI significantly contributes to understanding human cognition and behavior.

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ASSIGNMENT COVER

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PROGRAMME: _BSc. Honours in Psychology__________________ INTAKE: _30___

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ASSIGNMENT TITLE: Discuss the usefulness of artificial intelligence in the study of


human thinking and behaviour. __

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Introduction

One of the most significant developments in recent years has been the advancement of
artificial intelligence (AI). It has altered our relationship with technology and will
serve as the foundation for the fourth industrial revolution, in which robotics will gain
dominance over humans. As instances of AI, self-driving cars and smartphones not
only make our lives easier, but we can also converse with them and engage with them.
Experts are debating how this transition affects our mental processes and how it will
affect people's lives and ways of behaving and thinking. We will address the utility of
artificial intelligence in the study of human thinking and behavior in this article, and
artificial intelligence will be defined as the discussion progresses.

Definition of key terms

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be defined as the fundamental simulation of intelligence


that is processed by machines, computer systems and other devices (Kaplan &
Haenlein, 2020).

Main discussion

Science has struggled to depict this rapidly evolving phenomenon, yet there are
several definite areas on which agreement has been reached. Many studies have
already shown that constant interactions with technology change our brain,
influencing the information we remember, our sense of physical orientation, and even
what makes us happy.The goal of using artificial intelligence in business would be to
integrate expert architecture, natural language processing, machine vision, and speech
recognition. This exhibited intelligence was effectively provided by gadgets and
machines that can help articulate and internalize the main implications on business
operations in order to automate the chores without compromising the quality of the
essential implications.

Furthermore, it is undeniable that our mobile phones and tablets have been
transformed into information consultation and storage systems, allowing us to dump
data onto memory cards while forgetting to save it in our heads. This allows us to
have more data at our disposal, but it removes the duty to keep information. Every
time we try to recall a fact, the pathway in our brain that leads to it strengthens,
allowing us to return to it in the future.

Furthermore, AI allows for human interventions and capabilities such as reasoning,


understanding, communication, and planning from a specific perspective. This aids in
fostering significant intervention into the individual perspective, which can provide
the greatest remedies for operational and functional deficiencies. AI technology
manages and handles the volume of information generated by both machines and
humans. This technological intervention encourages extensive interpretational
engagement in business, which entails absorbing, forecasting, and making business
judgments without assistance from outside sources. This has been effective in making
productive decisions, which is critical in operational functions inside a business.

Moreover, AI can be used in conjunction with human-assisted approaches. The


significant benefits and relevance that this reflects in business would assist numerous
industries in regulating economic stability, financial services, and other industrial
usages (McKee & Porter, 2020). AI can assist promote complex and difficult jobs by
using artificial intelligence to make physical labor and intervention easier and more
effective. The AI assists in fraud detection by monitoring and detecting fraudulent
actions throughout the service platform. This greatly improves the capability of the
business and other architectures while also supporting and contributing to the intellect
and logical competence of humans.This is widely utilized in VCA in customer help
since it greatly supports and eliminates manual labor and engagement with customers.

Furthermore, human-driven AI directs AI development in the right directions while


keeping human ethics and nature in mind. This must concentrate on identifying and
addressing the difficulties that humans face in general, while also supporting human
efforts and initiating in a variety of ways to accelerate the approach's success and
accomplishment. To a large extent, this has been effective in integrating the firm's
essential implications while ensuring to preserve the business resources in order to
meet with the secured business requirements. This ensures a more secure and
improved lifestyle in organizations while intervening with all secure applications in
technology improvements (Clabaugh & Matari, 2018). This has tremendous
ramifications that build the huge interaction with the business to succeed in the
business process while making the complex and demanding duties easier in certain
ways. This promotes economic success while enabling the integration of AI's core
approaches in varied industries that rely heavily on human efforts and interventions.
The complimentary strengths are activated and heightened by AI, which requires a
dedicated architecture to safeguard the business in protecting and improving data
quality and the end product.

Last but not least, artificial intelligence will allow us to further improve abstract
thinking, imagination, and intuition in this manner. "AI will force us to access the
most intricate parts of our minds." We can use our most humanitarian abilities when
ordinary tasks are automated."The future of society is based on individuals with
superior reasoning and the ability to use complex skills to solve problems," says Chris
Brauer, a professor at the University of London. According to several research, AI
will encourage the development of all capabilities that give value to machines. It will
also increase safety and optimize work tools, but it cannot replace the human mind
when judgment and subjectivity are distinguishing values, according to the authors.

Conclusively, it is quite clear that the contribution of artificial intelligence cannot be


underestimated since it helps in the study of human thinking and behaviour. The way
in which artificial intelligence helps can be used to study the way in which humans
think and behave was articulated in the foregoing essay.
References

Clabaugh, C., & Matarić, M. (2018). Robots for the people, by the people:
Personalizing human-machine interaction. Science robotics, 3(21),
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Kaplan, A., & Haenlein, M. (2020). Rulers of the world, unite! The challenges and
opportunities of artificial intelligence. Business Horizons, 63(1), 37-
50. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Haenlein/publication/
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opportunities-of-artificial-intelligence.pdf

McKee, H. A., & Porter, J. E. (2020, February). Ethics for AI writing: The importance
of rhetorical context. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics,
and Society (pp. 110-
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