Everyone could use more time in their day, but getting more than 24 hours out of it just isn't going to happen. Reducing the amount of work you have to do on your own…and it turns out technology can help with this. More specifically, if you're looking for a way to get more done in less time when it comes to recruiting new employees or improving the productivity of existing employees, chatbots have you covered. If you haven't tried out chatbots in the workplace yet, here are some ways they're already helping companies get more done in their day on a regular basis. If you're not used to the idea of AI and chatbots in the workplace, read this to learn more: Interview with a Chatbot: The Future of AI and HR The recruiting process can be lengthy and expensive for the HR department, and tiring for candidates.

Nearly a decade after co-founding Cyberjustice Laboratory, a unique hub that analyses the impact of technologies on justice while developing concrete technological tools that are adapted to the reality of justice systems, Karim Benyekhlef and Fabien Gélinas have set their sights on artificial intelligence. The Autonomy through Cyberjustice Technologies (ACT), the latest brainchild of the Cyberjustice Laboratory, is the largest international multidisciplinary research initiative that seeks to leverage artificial intelligence to increase access to justice while providing justice stakeholders with a roadmap to help them develop technology that is better adapted to justice. "The main objective behind the initiative is to ensure that individuals know their rights, understand their legal situation regarding their problems and improve access to justice – and AI may help accomplish those goals," said Benyekhlef, the head of Cyberjustice Laboratory and a law professor at the Université de Montréal. "There's a good chance that our reflections and work on areas such as privacy, data management, data governance could easily be used in other realms such as in public administration. But we must be careful. We cannot play the sorcerer's apprentice. These are tools that are not yet mature. There's work to be done."

If you find it difficult to find a suitable shoe according to your foot shape, artificial intelligence has come to your rescue. The Perfitt R device removes your mold and makes a millimeter matching in the database. In general, a shoemaker may need several trials to find a product that fits your foot exactly. These trials both disturb the consumer and cause the employees to engage more. What is Perfitt R? The box-shaped device called Perfitt R, which was introduced at CES 2020, provides a complete profile of your foot with the help of artificial intelligence and presents all compatible shoe models in the store to your liking. So you save both time and energy.

Recently, Dr. Eric Topol captured vivid images of his heart, abdomen and left foot, among other things, using only a handheld ultrasound tool and a smartphone. "A total-body medical selfie," said Topol Wednesday at the CHIME19 Fall CIO Forum in Phoenix, where the photos were projected onto screens during his closing keynote address. "This all took a matter of minutes." But when Topol experienced abdominal pain, his doctor ordered a standard CT scan, which ultimately captured the same details. SUBSCRIBE: Become an Insider for access to exclusive HealthTech videos, white papers and articles.

The United States Government is to clip the wings of its civilian drone programme amidst continuing fears China could co-opt the tech to conduct espionage. Part of the 810-strong drone fleet -- used for such diverse tasks as monitoring endangered species and mapping landscapes -- was made by Chinese firm DJI. The move -- which will likely see the drones only fly in emergencies, such as to aid firefighting efforts -- builds on the temporary ban that began in October 2019. DJI Sciences and Technologies Ltd is a Chinese tech firm based out of Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The acronym DJI is short for'Dà-Jiāng Innovations'.

Skyqraft, a Swedish startup using AI and drones for electricity power-line inspection, has picked up $505,000 in early backing. Leading the round is "startup generator" and investor Antler, with participation from a number of angels including Claes Ekström and Tomas Kåberger. Founded in March 2019 and launched that September, Skyqraft provides what it calls "smart" infrastructure inspections for power-lines. It uses unmanned airplanes, combined with AI, to gather images and detect risk automatically. This is in contrast to the status quo, where power-lines are typically inspected by teams of people and helicopters, which isn't idea on a number of fronts. "Power-line inspections most importantly are not environmentally friendly, very costly and unsafe with the use of helicopters and people," Skyqraft co-founder and CMO Sakina Turabali tells TechCrunch.

Much of the research literature on landscape change has focused on aerial imagery or satellite imagery from remote sensing sources. This is understandable if one were to look at wide areas. However, ground-level photographs also have great value to demonstrate landscape change from a human eye-level perspective. Combing such ground-level photographs with fieldwork and spatial analysis provides the possibility to assess human-environmental factors that have led to sometimes drastic change in the landscape. Yellowstone has become one of the most popular national parks in the United States.

Researchers from Facebook and MIT Labs have proposed a new methodology that uses machine learning and satellite imagery to generate street addresses in areas of the world where individual buildings don't have a unique address. The methodology divides the street addressing into two processes. The first process is segmentation. During segmentation, road pixels are identified using deep learning from 0.5 meter resolution satellite images. The second part of segmentation involves developing the road network from these identified pixels.

Chinese tech giant Tencent has published content produced by automated software called Dreamwriter for the past five years, with an emphasis on business and financial stories. An online platform run by a company called Shanghai Yingxun Technology Company reproduced Tencent's AI-generated financial report on its own website in 2018. While the defendant had already deleted the report from its own website, a fine of 1,500 yuan ($217) was still payable. Over recent years, AI has more and more invaded most sectors and the creative arts are no different. For example, Google has created an AI-powered tool called AutoDraw that identifies what someone is trying to draw, and then digitally recreates it.

Brazil's government has big plans for AI, despite having come late to the party. In Oxford Insights' AI Readiness Index 2019, Brazil was ranked 40 out of 192 countries, a sign that the South American powerhouse is moving up in the AI world. The report looks at how ready countries are to take advantage of the AI technologies PwC forecasts will add $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030. The 2019 report also cautions that the "Global South could be left behind by the so-called fourth industrial revolution." But even as some of the planet's richest nations, including Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and the U.S, have become recognized AI innovation hubs, according to studies by Deloitte and others, South America -- led by Brazil -- is rapidly emerging as a leader in AI-enabled businesses.