This is Part 2 of the series "Transforming Your Enterprise for the Experience Economy" Consumer demands and preferences have always driven how, when, and what products businesses deliver. But for much of modern history, "giving the people what they want" has been more reactive than predictive. Today, the data and technology exist to drive proactive, customer-centric decision-making and personalization, ultimately allowing companies to enhance enterprise supply chain operations to reduce friction, anticipate customer needs, and create amazing customer experiences. But how do you cultivate and activate data to create a customer-centric supply chain? To find out, we ask Kirk Borne, principal data scientist for Booz Allen Hamilton, to share the top data insights necessary to digitize supply chains and put customers at the center of each step along the journey.

Headlines from the likes of The New York Times ("Deepfakes Are Coming. We Can No Longer Believe What We See"), The Wall Street Journal ("Deepfake Videos Are Getting Real and That's a Problem"), and The Washington Post ("Top AI researchers race to detect'deepfake' videos: 'We are outgunned'") would have us believe that clever fakes may soon make it impossible to distinguish truth from falsehood. Deepfakes -- pieces of AI-synthesized image and video content persuasively depicting things that never happened -- are now a constant presence in conversations about the future of disinformation. These concerns have been kicked into even higher gear by the swiftly approaching 2020 U.S. election. A video essay from The Atlantic admonishes us: "Ahead of 2020, Beware the Deepfake."

Welcome to the September edition of our best and favorite articles in AI that were published this month. We are a Paris-based company that does Agile data development. This month, we spotted articles about AI surveillance, Deepfake, a documentary from the 60s and much more. Let's kick off with the comic of the month: Let's jump in 1960, we are ten years from HAL 9000 and the first personal computers but people are already thinking about the emergence of Artificial Intelligence. From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, newspapers were full of articles about it.

For anyone questioning the strides being made in the world of autonomous vehicles, meet FLIR Systems. The California tech company has been developing its thermal sensor camera technology to enhance capabilities of self-driving cars. FLIR has been developing thermal sensor technology that could impact the future of self-driving vehicles. Ride actually had an opportunity to experience FLIR's thermal technology during a demo ride at the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show. Widely known for its military applications, thermal sensors focus on heat emanating from objects, which makes the technology more efficient in detecting obstacles on the road across various depths of field.

Your heart beats faster, your palms sweat and part of your brain called the Heschl's gyrus lights up like a Christmas tree. Chances are, you've never thought in such a detailed way about what happens to your brain and body when you listen to music. But it's a question that has puzzled scientists for decades: Why does something as abstract as music provoke such a consistent response? In a new study, a team of researchers from USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and USC Viterbi School of Engineering, with the help of artificial intelligence, investigated how music affects listeners' brains, bodies and emotions. For the experiment, the team selected three emotional pieces of music that did not contain lyrics and were not highly familiar, so no element of memory was attached to the listeners' emotional response.

You don't need to take in Disney's latest Star Wars instalments to see robots battling robots. Just pay a visit to the cyber desk of an energy company. Digital technologies are very democratic -- anyone can access them. All you need is a reasonably advanced smart phone from any of the big phone suppliers, an internet access (free in coffee shops and malls), and a free account on a cloud service. The apps are mostly free too, which tells you they're not costly to make.

"You can already see a material effect that deepfakes have had," said Nick Dufour, one of the Google engineers overseeing the company's deepfake research. "They have allowed people to claim that video evidence that would otherwise be very convincing is a fake." For decades, computer software has allowed people to manipulate photos and videos or create fake images from scratch. But it has been a slow, painstaking process usually reserved for experts trained in the vagaries of software like Adobe Photoshop or After Effects. Now, artificial intelligence technologies are streamlining the process, reducing the cost, time and skill needed to doctor digital images.

As we near the end of the year, it is again time to go to the crystal ball and issue predictions for what the year 2020 holds in store for health care. This year, I consulted three well-known Venice Beach astrologers, two reputed Chakra healers, and an old Ouija board to arrive at 10 predictions that have a 50/50 chance of being correct. In all seriousness, here is how I see the dialog around our nation's health care system evolving in 2020. An under-appreciated driver of costs in U.S. health care is the price of hospitalization. This big price tag, combined with enabling technologies and evolving patient preferences, is creating pressure for health care delivery organizations and health plans to think differently about how and where care is delivered.

OK, Google, so what's it going to be? Smart speakers, and the ability to use voice to listen to music, get traffic directions, the latest weather, news updates, recipes and more are among the most popular holiday gift items, with prices starting at around $25. (The Amazon Echo Dot even has a Black Friday sale price of $22.) But if you're new to the category, know that before you buy, you have to make a basic decision – which format to sign up to. Because both speakers don't always work with each other and once you master the commands for one, you're not going to want to use a different set on another speaker. For that reason, there are often simply "Google Homes," or "Alexa manors." Amazon, which launched the Echo speaker five years ago, in November 2014, continues to dominate smart speakers, with rival Google catching up.

Researchers from all over the world contribute to this repository as a prelude to the peer review process for publication in traditional journals. We hope to save you some time by picking out articles that represent the most promise for the typical data scientist. The articles listed below represent a fraction of all articles appearing on the preprint server. They are listed in no particular order with a link to each paper along with a brief overview. Especially relevant articles are marked with a "thumbs up" icon.