My First Impressions of AI through the Titanic

For Thursday's class in STEM skills, we talked about AI. We learned what AI, artificial intelligence, is and how it works in our day-to-day lives. It uses computer systems to complete tasks that normally require human assistance. It serves anywhere through our phones, cars, or even like unimaginable things, like robots who could serve as companions with human like features and emotions. My team predicted who would survive based on the age, class, and gender. 

• For age, it would determine how important someone life was, while this sounds inhumane, we were merely trying to differentiate a child's life versus an elder. This was a big discussion depending on a child, who has their whole life ahead of them while in some cultures, we try to put elders first as they hold the knowledge and traditions from the past. 
• Class would be separated between first, second, and third class, based on how wealthy someone is, or how much someone could afford to travel aboard the Titanic. In this case, class could determine survival rate maybe through bribery or even access to the decks, as there had been rumors that some third-class people were barred from entering this area. 
• Gender defines the famous precedent, "women and children first." We do this mainly for children being so young and innocent while for women, theoretically speaking, are known as the child bearers and care givers. However, since the early 20th century, women started to branch out and get jobs outside of this stereotypical job of caring for the family. Still to this day, we use this precedent even in war, where women will never be drafted. To me, this is a controversial yet neutral topic, as I see it both ways. 

Once my team's code was used, the test predicted that only 77% would survive. In my opinion, considering the facts that 712 people survived out of 2,208 people, our model was 45% better compared to the 32% who did survive. 

I learned that AI is very beneficial. It can take any situation, as complicated or complex as the Titanic and make an algorithm that'll predict who can survive. Before this class, I never knew where AI was in our day-to-day lives, let alone what it could do.