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What are the key technology areas Ramco Systems will be focusing on in 2020? With this, Ramco focused on utilizing AI and ML-based algorithms to help organisations match the needs of changing business landscape. Our focus was on moving from Passive ERP (enterprise resource planning) to an Active ERP era, where systems could alert users on anomalies in data; reduce data entry by defaulting values or even pre-populating fields based on historical data through Smart Fill phrases, and so on. We have been leveraging behavioural analysis and prediction to reduce data entry and train the model to arrive at quick predictions. Also, with voice and chatbots becoming mainstream for customer/ employee engagement, UIs (user interfaces) have become passé, as we are witnessing users carry out transactions by chatting with the bot.

The first phase of the UNOSAT Challenge has just ended. The UNOSAT Challenge is the important Phi-Unet (ESA) contest for UNOSAT (United Nations) in partnership with ESA, RUS COPERNICUS, UNOSAT and with the technical support of CERN openlab. The aim of the contest is to put artificial intelligence and Earth Observation data at the service of a humanitarian cause: support the Iraqi government in planning reconstruction activities. In the first phase, candidates were asked to create an artificial intelligence model to identify urban areas in some Iraqi territories, working on data provided by ESA and the German Space Agency (DLR). At the end of this phase, 5 teams were selected.

Airbnb is using technology that looks at their guests' online personalities to determine their trustworthiness. These "untrustworthy" traits include "narcissism, Machiavellianism, or psychopathy", along with "neuroticism and involvement in crimes" The background check technology was developed by a startup named Trooly. It was revealed in a patent published by the European Patent Office after being granted in the US last year, reports Evening Standard. Airbnb users are given a risk score on the basis of'red flags' that the AI might find, and these scores indicate how reliable a guest they would make. It comes after several complaints from Airbnb hosts about guests holding rowdy parties and damaging property. According to Airbnb's own website, "Every Airbnb reservation is scored for risk before it's confirmed."

Since the 1990s, the term Big Data has been mentioned by people. Big data has developed rapidly and is affecting our lives more and more deeply. Artificial intelligence was found at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in 1956. The concept and development goals of artificial intelligence have experienced several heartbreaks. But today, AlphaGo can beat human top players on the Go board.

Some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence, including two godfathers of the machine learning boom, are betting that clever algorithms are about to transform the abilities of industrial robots. Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, who shared this year's Turing Prize with Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, are among the AI luminaries who have invested in Covariant.ai, The company, emerging from stealth Wednesday, announced the first commercial installations of its AI-equipped robots: picking boxes and bags of products for a German electronics retailer called Obeta. Picking up everyday boxes and plastic packages might sound trivial, and it is for most humans. Workers in factories and warehouses are frequently given new objects to handle, or a batch of different items mixed together, but it's deceptively difficult for a machine to quickly work out how to grab the next doodad.

Some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence, including two godfathers of the machine learning boom, are betting that clever algorithms are about to transform the abilities of industrial robots. Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, who shared this year's Turing Prize with Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, are among the AI luminaries who have invested in Covariant.ai, The company, emerging from stealth Wednesday, announced the first commercial installations of its AI-equipped robots: picking boxes and bags of products for a German electronics retailer called Obeta. Picking up everyday boxes and plastic packages might sound trivial, and it is for most humans. Workers in factories and warehouses are frequently given new objects to handle, or a batch of different items mixed together, but it's deceptively difficult for a machine to quickly work out how to grab the next doodad.

For some time, leaders of technology-enabled health-care institutions--and today, that means practically all health-care institutions--have been anticipating the potential impact that artificial intelligence (AI) will have on the performance and efficiency of their operations and their talent. But in reality many, if not most, have already been reaping the benefits of AI tools, which are improving many activities in health-care institutions, from enhancing oncological diagnosis accuracy to reducing time spent scheduling patient visits. In a survey conducted by MIT Technology Review Insights, in association with GE Healthcare, more than 82% of health-care business leaders report that their AI deployments have already created workflow improvements in their operational and administrative activities--giving clinicians time back to work with their patients more closely, and with more insight. This report, alongside an interactive experience on technologyreview.com, is the conclusion of our survey of more than 900 health-care professionals in the US and the UK.

Google's AI team has developed a new model to protect the endangered species of killer whales known as orcas in the Salish Sea. According to the Center for Whale Research, there are only 73 Southern Resident orcas -- a subspecies of the killer whale -- left in the world. So Google has teamed up with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to monitor their condition and alert experts in the event of sickness or accidents across 12 locations. Google's team trained its AI model using 1,800 hours of underwater audio and 68,000 labels that identified the origin of the sound. When the model "hears" sound of a whale, it displays its location on Rainforest Connection, an acoustic monitoring system for animals.

It's safe to say that no industry will be left untouched by digital disruption. This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. Legacy companies are falling like dominoes to disruptors. Together, emerging technology and new business models have created new ways of serving customers. The same way Airbnb, Uber, and LinkedIn fundamentally changed the lodging, taxi, and recruiting industries, titans such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook are now poised to disrupt every industry as wide-ranging as health insurers to grocers.