Deloitte has what it calls an "apprenticeship model." The international auditing and professional services firm hires thousands of entry level employees with the expectation that most of them will work hard, then leave after they've learned marketable skills. The organization--like many companies--looks like a pyramid, with many more employees at the bottom level than at the middle or top level. That structure makes sense when there's a lot of grunt work to do. In the process of auditing a company, for instance, Deloitte employees used to pick up to 100 contracts to review manually.

Deloitte has what it calls an "apprenticeship model." The international auditing and professional services firm hires thousands of entry level employees with the expectation that most of them will work hard, then leave after they've learned marketable skills. The organization--like many companies--looks like a pyramid, with many more employees at the bottom level than at the middle or top level. That structure makes sense when there's a lot of grunt work to do. In the process of auditing a company, for instance, Deloitte employees used to pick up to 100 contracts to review manually.

Accenture Becomes Founding Sponsor of Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Toronto Institute Supported by Canadian, Ontario governments, Industry, and University of Toronto TORONTO; Mar. 30, 2017 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced it is a founding sponsor of the new Vector Institute for artificial intelligence (AI) in Canada. The relationship is based on a shared mission to identify new business models for artificial intelligence and to position Canada as a global leader in the digital era. The goal of the new Vector Institute – a non-profit enterprise funded by industry and the federal and Ontario governments – is to help build and maintain Canada's position at the scientific forefront of the global shift to artificial intelligence (AI). Together with industry and educational organizations including the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute will promote and nurture Canadian talent and research excellence in deep learning and machine learning, and actively seek ways to enable and sustain AI-based economic growth in Canada. Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau wears Accenture's AI-enabled DAQRI Smart Helmet during the launch of the Vector Institute for AI at the MaRs Discovery District in Toronto, Ont.

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The topic of artificial intelligence is getting a wealth of attention this year, and a new study from PricewaterhouseCoopers finds that businesses and consumers are warming up to the potential benefits of AI. The PwC study "Bot.Me: A revolutionary partnership" looks at the global impact of AI and was compiled from insights from a 2017 event that gathered AI experts and a survey of 2,500 consumers and business leaders. The study looks at the collective views of AI in society today and its future implications. There are several highlights from this study, including the fact that AI is no longer viewed as primarily a corporate tool to increase automation (and thereby kill jobs). Instead, it is seen as emerging technology that can handle global challenges.

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Accenture has launched Million Meals' project with NGO Akshaya Patra to increase the number of midday meals served to children in state-run schools. Disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) will enable organisations to deliver a million midday meals to schoolchildren in India, said a top official of software major Accenture. "We have applied AI, IoT and block-chain to exponentially increase the number of midday meals served to children in state-run schools under'Million Meals' project with NGO Akshaya Patra," said Accenture Labs Managing Director Sanjay Podder in a statement. Block-chain is a distributed database that compiles a growing list of ordered records called blocks. The US-based Accenture collaborated with the city-based Akshaya Patra Foundation, which operates the government-funded MidDay Meal Scheme in state-run and state-aided schools, in implementing the novel project with new IT products and solutions.

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Our visual primer shows the most common ones in use and the business problems they solve. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are a hot topic in the enterprise, with company leaders having high hopes for how they can be used to improve and automate business processes. In fact, some 54% of organizations are making substantial investments in AI today, and that number jumps to 63% in three years, according to our 2017 Global Digital IQ Survey. So how will AI solve business problems, like helping you figure out why you're losing customers or assessing the risk of a credit applicant? It depends on a number of factors, especially the data you are working with and the type of training that will be required.

About half of millennials looking for work are interested in jobs that carry a risk of automation, a new study suggests. The findings indicate the youngest and most educated generation in the American workforce isn't necessarily more robot-proof than older workers, who tend to be portrayed as the primary victims of automation. "Millennials show a considerable amount of interest in occupations that face a threat of automation," said Daniel Culbertson, an economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab, the research institute attached to the international job site, and the author of the report. "That gets lost when people talk about millennials being so highly educated and more interested in tech roles." A college degree doesn't protect against robot rivals because even well-paid, highly skilled jobs could shrink or vanish in the near future, he said. Recent graduates who land high salaries aren't impervious if their job is characterized by repetitive tasks and decisions.