If you looked up the term "artificial intelligence" on Google and found your way to this article, you've used (and hopefully benefitted from) AI. If you've ever taken an Uber or had your phone auto-correct a misspelled word, you've used AI. Although it may not always be immediately obvious, artificial intelligence impacts nearly all aspects of our lives in a nearly uncountable number of ways. In this article, we'll take a look at eight examples of how artificial intelligence saves us time, money, and energy in our everyday life. Before we can identify how artificial intelligence impacts our lives, it's helpful to know exactly what it is (and what it is not).

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a technology that feels like it came out of a comic book. What we once considered to be the future, is here now. AI as we know it today has footprints that date back to the classic philosophers, who attempted to explain human thinking as a symbolic system. However, the term AI was formally coined in the year 1956, at a conference at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. In a report by PWC, it is stated that AI-enabled activities could raise the global GDP to 14percent by the end of 2030, which sums up to $15.7 Trillion. This is evidence of the potential that AI software development has today and in the future to come.

Intelligent machines often match – and sometimes go even above and beyond! Human babies start recognizing facial features like eyes, nose, lips and face shapes. But that is not all there is to a face. There are a plethora of factors that make human faces unique. Smart machines are taught to identify facial coordinates (x, y, w, and h; that make a square around the face as an area of interest), landmarks (eyes, nose etc), and alignment (geometric structures).