Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made strides over the last few decades. Further, it reached a point where we can find it in many aspects of our daily lives. It's a fact that knowing AI is a considerable advantage for developers. That's why, in this article, we'll be focusing on this topic. And as React is one of our favorite development tools, we decided to combine these two. Below, we'll go over React and AI basics. Then, we'll move on to some examples of unique AI-based features developed with React. Let's dive in!

React Development

Although many people refer to React as a framework, it is a front-end JavaScript library. This library is open-source and used to build user interfaces (UIs) for the web. Also known as ReactJS or React.JS, Facebook created it for internal use in 2011. Later, in 2013, they released it into the world. Today, React is a prevalent dev tool, and it's currently in its 18.0.0 version.

Also, React has lots of essential features. For instance, it's declarative and component-based. Furthermore, it supports the server side and is fast and easy to learn.

Artificial Intelligence

The concept behind Artificial Intelligence is quite simple. It lies in the fact that computers can learn from existing decision-making examples. As a result, we can build smart machines that can perform human tasks. Some examples include speech recognition, fraud prevention, and smart assistants.

Since AI is a broad field, it's divided into many sub-fields. What's more, these may also have their sub-fields. For example, there are neural networks, robotics, and machine learning. There's also fuzzy logic, natural language processing, and deep learning.

React for AI Development

Artificial Intelligence has brought on outstanding improvements to our daily lives. Its uses are far-reaching and are in almost, if not every, industry. When it comes to development, React has also shown considerable flexibility. Its features go from blogs and social networks to eCommerce and cross-platform mobile apps. What can these two achieve when combined?

Speech Recognition

Nowadays, speech recognition is an impressive and popular attribute. Moreover, it's beneficial for people with hearing or visual impairments. It has many uses, like hands-free control of various devices and equipment. Also, it allows writing documents through voice-to-text tech and security voice identification. These are a few examples of its wide applications.

When it comes to React, there are several ways to add speech recognition. For instance, this ready-made boilerplate integrates ML to React to allow speech recognition. You also can use a text-to-speech API called rev.ai and npmjs's react-speech-recognition hook for assistance.

Shopping Carts

The AI of this shopping cart deserves its very own section. With AI plus React, websites can add items to their cart with voice recognition. For it, you'll need the Alan AI framework. It allows running an entire application through voice commands!

ML Web-Apps

You can also combine AI with React to create web apps with Flask. To do so, you should develop the front end in React and the back end in Flask. Adding a machine learning model lets you predict values for specific inputs.

Image Search

Let's say you want to add an image search feature to your project. React can help you with this as well! In this project, Christian Nwamba used React for the front-end user interaction. Further, it used Node.js and its package manager NPM to build the back end. Other tools included Cloudinary for image storage and Algolia to start the AI search. As a result, the AI image-search tool looks for patterns among uploaded images.

Tic Tac Toe

You can also use artificial intelligence to have some fun! That's the case in this project for AI development with React. This AI-based Tic Tac Toe uses Node.JS, React, and Adaptive Intelligence Program (AIP-3). As a consequence, it adapts to an opponent's skill level. How do you think AI fares against a human Tic Tac Toe player?

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Write React Code?

A big question regarding Artificial Intelligence is whether it will take over what are now human jobs. So, it would be interesting to dive into the question. Could AI write your React code for you?

The short answer is yes, and then some. For instance, there is Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3). This autoregressive language model is a creation of OpenAI. Also, it's trained to produce human-like text with deep learning from literary works, business memos, and, yes, codes. It can also write poems, fiction, and humor texts. Debuild CEO used GPT-3 to write React code for a fully-functioning app in seconds. If you are worried about your future as a programmer, don't panic! Although GPT-3 has shown fantastic potential, this AI cannot make breakthroughs. Yet, it is a tremendous tool to delegate smaller tasks so you can have time to focus on the bigger picture. You can sign up to be part of OpenAI's beta!

Final Thoughts

As you can see, the opportunities are endless for AI development with React. We hope our overview has inspired you to use React in your next AI project!