With increased awareness about the transformative power of AI, the adoption of AI is now being seen across many industries. From large banks like HDFC Bank to ecommerce players like Pepperfry, AI is being used for a variety of use cases. HDFC Bank uses an intelligent AI-enabled bot for improving the efficiency of the credit decision process. Eye balling is of paramount importance in the credit decision process, and the bot mimics a human by eye balling the customer demographics for those who have applied for loans against the already existing base. For the signature verification process for clearing cheques, the bank is using machine learning with almost 80 per cent accuracy to process more than 2.5 lakh cheques a day.

A science journalist has identified eight ways the world could end, with lethal biotechnology, Terminator-style robots and nuclear war being the biggest threats to life on Earth. Bryan Walsh, 41, a former foreign correspondent and author from Brooklyn, also addressed climate change, supervolcanoes, asteroids, disease and even aliens in his new book. End Times: A Brief Guide To The End Of The World came after Mr Walsh spent two years looking into the horrific ways the world could face Armageddon. He has assessed both the severity of each disaster, as well as the likelihood of it actually happening. Mr Walsh says: 'I don't want people to feel we're doomed and the world's going to end tomorrow and stuff. 'I want them to see that in each one of these risks, there are things being done, or that we could be doing.

Singapore Airlines is overhauling its digital presence by utilizing the latest AI technologies to deliver a personalized customer experience to all its 20m passengers. A competitive bid process saw Insider selected as technology partner to deliver personalized cross channel experiences to customers, utilizing predictive AI technologies to serve contextualized recommendations and optimise conversion rates, revenue and customer satisfaction. Hande Cilingir, chief executive and co-founder at Insider, said: "In essence, Singapore Airlines can now create a 360-degree view of each customer and optimize its full-funnel multichannel customer experience. Using the latest AI technologies, Insider's Growth Management Platform will enable Singapore Airlines to deliver highly personalized, meaningful experiences to each individual based on historical, real-time and predictive data." Hande Cilingir, chief executive and co-founder at Insider added: "As we are building new categories, our top-notch engineering team strives to stay ahead of the trends, incorporating the latest technologies like WhatsApp Business API and Facebook Messenger to increase the number of channels, helping marketers deliver consistent experiences.

It's becoming easier all the time to read signals from the human brain: Tesla founder Elon Musk's company Neuralink just this summer announced that human trials will move forward next year for an implantable device that can read a user's mind; scientists at UCSF recently released the results of a brain activity study, backed by Facebook, that shows it's possible to use brain-wave technology to decode speech; in 2018, Nissan unveiled Brain-to-Vehicle technology that would allow vehicles to interpret signals from the driver's brain; and Nielsen is already using neuroscience to capture nonconscious aspects of consumer decision-making. There will be good and bad outcomes. Recently, we've talked about how high tech can help the blind see and amputees feel by reading brain signals directly. A mind-controlled robotic "arm" can help sufferers from movement disorders with the tasks of daily living. One workplace use is to monitor drowsiness in, for example, the operators of high-speed trains.

Paul Hildreth peered at a display of dozens of images from security cameras surveying his Atlanta school district and settled on one showing a woman in a bright yellow shirt walking a hallway. A mouse click instructed the artificial intelligence-equipped system to find other images of the woman, and it immediately stitched them into a video narrative of where she was currently, where she had been and where she was going. There was no threat, but Hildreth's demonstration showed what's possible with AI-powered cameras. If a gunman were in one of his schools, the cameras could quickly identify the shooter's location and movements, allowing police to end the threat as soon as possible, said Hildreth, emergency operations coordinator for the Fulton County School District. AI is transforming surveillance cameras from passive sentries into active observers that can identify people, suspicious behavior and guns, amassing large amounts of data that help them learn over time to recognize mannerisms, gait and dress.

The only money coming in was from founder and CEO Elon Musk himself. "Those were the dark, dark days," Ahuja recalled later. Ahuja safely steered one of Silicon Valley's most audacious technology ventures not just through the ensuing cash crisis but also through a hugely successful IPO two years later. That feat speaks not just of Ahuja's talents, but also of the highly strategic role most CFOs play at technology companies today. The ultimate proof point of that thesis: After retiring from Tesla in 2015, Ahuja was asked to return in 2018 for a second stint as finance chief, and to try to work his magic once again, as Tesla faces more challenges with cash management and mounting production issues.

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Every day for 10 months, Knightscope K5 patrolled the parking garage across the street from the city hall in Hayward, California. An autonomous security robot, it rolled around by itself, taking video and reading license plates. Locals had complained the garage was dangerous, but K5 seemed to be doing a good job restoring safety. Until the night of August 3, when a stranger came up to K5, knocked it down, and kicked it repeatedly, inflicting serious damage. Seen in the wild, they appear to have agency, feelings, and desires. When delivery bots get stuck on the sidewalk, good Samaritans help them get unstuck.

Artificial intelligence salaries benefit from the perfect recipe for a sweet paycheck: a hot field and high demand for scarce talent. It's the ever-reliable law of supply and demand, and right now, anything artificial intelligence-related is in very high demand. According to Indeed.com, the average IT salary -- the keyword is "artificial intelligence engineer" -- in the San Francisco area ranges from approximately $134,135 per year for "software engineer" to $169,930 per year for "machine learning engineer." However, it can go much higher if you have the credentials firms need. One tenured professor was offered triple his $180,000 salary to join Google, which he declined for a different teaching position.

SAN FRANCISCO – Capella Space, a startup building a constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, is joining SpaceNet, a nonprofit focused on geospatial applications for artificial intelligence. SpaceNet was established in 2016 by CosmiQ Works, the In-Q-Tel organization focused on commercial space, and DigitalGlobe, now part of Maxar Technologies. SpaceNet provides free high-resolution electro-optical satellite imagery, advertises challenges and awards cash prizes to encourage people to test and refine image analysis tools. SpaceNet has helped expand geospatial research and applications for electro-optical satellite imagery, said Ryan Lewis, SpaceNet general manager and senior vice president at In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of U.S. intelligence agencies. "Looking ahead, we want to see the same occur not just for imagery but also for SAR data," he told SpaceNews.