What is the most unusual use of artificial intelligence you have seen?
Besides generating text, images and videos for you in a few seconds/minutes, AI can certainly do other things.
What unusual uses of AI have you seen?
Perhaps mutual previews can encourage makers on this platform to be more creative. 🙂
For me, it was the fact that MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and other institutions have shown it’s possible to "see through walls" using Wi-Fi, detecting breathing patterns or even posture using AI + Wi-Fi.
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Using AI to talk to dolphins.
https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/
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@thefullstack I saw how one guy is using it for detecting toddlers' language. I think that understanding the animals and plants is another stage.
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AI boyfriends or AI girlfriends.
It is a thin line people.
And disclaimer => Im not judging it.
I just think, there is always at least one human out there who will like you. You dont need a PC to feel companionship.
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@cryptosymposium It has to be a really sad life when one befriends AI more than people. 🥲
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@cryptosymposium This raises serious concerns of power when considering how the person who built the model (or even the AI itself) could encourage individuals to think/act a certain way with the sway of emotional attachments...
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@scott_spanier @cryptosymposium In general, people have a hard time communicating with people because people are more likely to harm you and confront you. AI is more submissive and open to your thoughts, whatever it takes. So, where do you feel safer and secure? In the environment that confronts you or the warm environment (tho it is AI) – and the thing is, that thanks to AI, you can "grow/progress" even without confrontation, because AI knows more than the average human.
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Seeing through walls is really incredible, great find!
Some examples how AI is used to solve difficult engineering and science problems:
Fusion power research
Designing more efficient solar cells
Drug design
Cancer research, diagnosis and treatment
Searching for extraterrestrial life
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@konrad_sx Cancer research would be one of the TOP, if things go well.
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@busmark_w_nika Yes, definitely, and curing currently incurable diseases in general.
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@angelinashv I also heard something in the sense that they use AI for drones and even have an upper hand in this field in the military (even the US started being interested in their solutions).
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@siddharthpereira Is any article about him on the internet?
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@busmark_w_nika Didn't find everything. But this is the starting point.
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@siddharthpereira This is crazy. 5 different patterns of crying translated into the normal language. Pretty neat. Imagine using it towards animals as well.
Genome sequencing and drug predicting are huge. Same goes for identifying objects in space (18 year old used AI to identify 1.5 million previously unknown objects). Anywhere you have large quantities of data really...
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@scott_spanier If you have any interesting article / source, I would like to dive in :)
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Alphs fold seems to be leading in Genome sequencing and drug development https://deepmind.google/technologies/alphafold/
Space objects identified by 18 yo https://phys.org/news/2025-04-high-school-student-ai-reveal.html
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@scott_spanier Thank you, Scott! :)
to short i have seen , llm beeing used for all wrong things . so could you make the question more clear?
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@sietse_schelpe Let me rephrase – have you seen AI used in a way that improved the lives of others, and was it an unusual use case that you haven't seen before/isn't that common?
One of the most unusual uses of AI I've come across is its application in "seeing through walls." Researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and other institutions have harnessed the power of AI combined with Wi - Fi signals. This technology can detect breathing patterns and even a person's posture behind a wall. It works by analyzing the way Wi - Fi waves are reflected and refracted when they encounter different objects, like a human body. The AI algorithms then process this data to create an image or provide information about the person's movements and position. It's truly remarkable as it blurs the line between the physical and digital worlds in a way that was previously unimaginable, with potential applications in areas such as search - and - rescue operations and home security.
Idk if it's a negative use of AI or not, but in my region this new website called Eubrics is rising up. Honestly I rarely trust any product providers claiming AI as their best creation. But again, that doesn't change the fact that Notion or Evernote suddenly became bad with spamming AI in the chat. So, what do you think? Should I trust Eubrics or look for something else?
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@chandan7 Is your website right? 🙃
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AI also has many applications in life. For example, I use AI image recognition to help me choose which durian is ripe and has more flesh.