Artificial Intelligence (AI) is redefining industries by offering personalization, automating processes, and disrupting how we work. In modern times, AI is embraced by every industry from healthcare to government. Here are the 10 industries where AI has caused a disruption. The most popular applications of AI in agriculture range from robotics to crop and soil monitoring to predictive analytics. Agriculture majors are developing autonomous robots programmed to handle routine agricultural tasks such as crop harvesting at a higher volume human labourers.

Several of the world's tech giants (Facebook, Twitter, Google) have developed sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities to collect, manage and act on consumer data. However, while these companies monetize digital data to serve ads and drive sales, there's an unexplored opportunity for them to develop a platform to listen to citizen concerns and serve the public good. With a lot of deserved mistrust for these companies by the public, caused by misuse of personal information and high-profile data breaches and leaks, these tech companies could work to redeem themselves for the recent trouble they've caused by creating a public portal that connects public agencies and citizens during natural or man-made disasters, or even for voicing citizen concerns. In fact, at a certain point, this is something that the public should expect from the big AI companies that weild so much power over data and information. There's already a lot of public data out there, but it's very hard for public agencies, for example, to use Twitter as is for such a purpose as monitoring and prioritizing citizen concerns, especially in real-time during disasters.

Dyson has released a hair styling tool that uses the efficient speed of its vacuum motors to change your look. The company – better known for its vacuums, and with all eyes on a car it is making – has made its second move into the beauty industry, following the success of the £300 Supersonic hair dryer. The Dyson Airwrap costs £400 and is on sale now. It uses the motor that powers its vacuums to create jets of air that can then be used to style hair into curls, waves and smooth blow dries without the need for extreme heat. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.

TOKYO/NEW YORK – Google LLC said Wednesday its Pixel 3 smartphone series with artificial intelligence-powered cameras will hit shelves in Japan in November, the first time the American tech giant has released its signature phones in the country. The move into Japan pits Google against Apple Inc.'s iPhones, which make up half of the country's market share The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, with screen sizes of 5.5 inches and 6.3 inches, respectively, feature high-tech cameras and allow its users to screen calls using AI. "It's designed from inside out to be the smartest, most helpful device," said Nanda Ramachandran, senior director at Google Pixel Business, at a news event in Tokyo. "They come at the intersection of AI, hardware and software working together." Google began receiving orders for the Pixel 3 series through its website Wednesday, while mobile phone carriers SoftBank Corp. and NTT Docomo Inc. will start taking preorders on Oct. 19 for the phones.

MICROSOFT Corp is investing in South-east Asian ride-hailing firm Grab as part of a partnership that the two companies said will allow them to collaborate on technology projects, including big data and artificial intelligence. The companies did not disclose the deal value. Grab had earlier said it planned to raise roughly US$3 billion by year-end, of which it has already raised US$2 billion. Last week, Reuters reported that existing backer SoftBank Group Corp was closing in on a deal to invest about US$500 million in Grab as part of the funding round. Sources said that Grab is likely to tap strategic and financial firms for the remainder of the funding.

Before Tuesday's deal, it raised $2 billion in 2018, led by Toyota Motor Corp and financial firms, including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital. Singapore-headquartered Grab has taken its ride-hailing business to 235 cities in eight countries in Southeast Asia in the past six years. It is looking to transform itself into a leading consumer technology group, offering services such as food and parcel deliveries, electronic money transfers, micro-loans and mobile payments, besides ride-hailing. Grab will work with Microsoft to explore mobile facial recognition, image recognition and computer vision technologies to improve the pick-up experience, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday. For example, passengers will be able to take a photo of their current location and have it translated into an actual address for the driver.

Robotic arms have come a long way since they were first introduced in 1951. Today, rows of industrial robotic arms help automate tasks and boost productivity in many industries including automotive, electronic, chemical production, food processing and so on. In this report, we first examine the different types of industrial arms, assessing the merits of DELTA, SCARA, articulated and Cartesian types. We then demonstrate how the market for industrial robotic arms has evolved in the past twenty years, tracing the historical market development in annual unit numbers and value (robotic arm and total system value). Here, we look at market segmentation by application and territory.

Countries looking to harness the power of disruptive technologies need to ensure that citizens, and particularly the poor and those left behind, benefit from the opportunities created by disruptive technologies. It is not enough that disruptive technologies lower costs of goods and services or provide other efficiencies. Jobs, education, social safety nets, and investments that give opportunities to the poor matter just as much. At this year's Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group, stakeholders in the development community will, among many different topics, discuss how best to leverage the potential of disruptive technologies in order to address world's most pressing development challenges. Disruptive technologies include innovations that "lead to a step change in the cost or access to products and services with potential to disrupt traditional pathways of economic development."

China's Tencent Holdings is tying up with a technology firm from the United Kingdom called Medopad Ltd to use artificial intelligence for the purpose of improving Parkinson's disease treatment. The company is collaborating with Medopad to develop a system to remotely monitor patients with severe movement disorder. The company said that the basic goal is to allow doctors to set drug doses and modify care without patients having to go to the hospital. Healthcare is increasingly "not only about what happens in the clinic, but what happens in the real world", Wei Fan, Tencent's executive director for medical AI research said. "The reason we want to work with Medopad is they're experts in monitoring patients."

However, to adjust the automatic training, the data must be entered manually and it's a monotonous process that requires low-cost labor. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, has made a frightening forecast at the Bloomberg Global Business forum in New York. An IMF study says that in the near future 26 million jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence. According to Lagarde, the most vulnerable group is women as they are mainly engaged in areas requiring monotonous and precise work. One new profession that's already being actively learned around the world, and especially in China, is that of data labeling.