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Intelligent Process Automation in Banking: Think Resilience. Part -- 2

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In the first part of our blog series we have centered our focus on various operational challenges banking enterprises have been dealing with, how deploying virtual assistants will augment banking CX, finally the potential Enterprise Bot's BankAI holds in revamping contact center operations. Let's now move to the various applications of intelligent process automation in banking in the 2nd part of our blog: Generating suspicious activity reports ( SAR) is a regular requirement in banking institutions. However, reading manually through reports and updating details in the SAR form is time-consuming and involves high cost. Enterprise Bot's BankAI powered by NLP & RPA not only scans through high volumes of lengthy compliance documents in minutes but also extracts the required information for filing SAR. Most banks still use rule-based detection systems that often raise false positive alerts.


AI Ethics: When Robots Outsmart Humans - IntelligentHQ

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We never have been so closer to the future than we are now. There are news spreading across the media about the robots takeover of our jobs, driverless cars hitting the road with outstanding proficiency in driving standards, while at the same time, virtual assistants make us feel a bit less lonely telling us jokes and spending time with us. In fact, Siri, Alexa or Cortana have something machines didn't have before: a simulated human conscious capable of keep conversations with humans without being uncovered. AI is now at its most advanced development stage ever, but… do we need to worry about how smart are getting the robots? Will we ever need to?


Apple TV 4K review (2021): Finally, a Siri remote I don't hate

Engadget

Let's get this out of the way up front: the new Apple TV 4K looks exactly like the last model, and it's a bit faster. But what really stands out is the new Siri remote, which is practically an apology for what came before. Instead of being elegantly thin and easy to lose, it's a bit chunky and easier to hold. Instead of an infuriating touchpad, there's a directional pad that also has touchpad capabilities. The new Siri remote is so good, I'd recommend that existing Apple TV 4K owners just buy it separately for $60 and skip the new box entirely.


How is YouTube using AI to recommend videos?

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With a high user base comes a mighty recommendation system. You know me guys, I love to decode interesting algorithms. You can check out my articles on TikTok, Tinder, GPT-3, Google Hum! Homepage -- Give suggestions without any query/navigation. YouTube is a video-sharing website launched back in 2007 by three PayPal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Once started above the small restaurant at California City, YouTube has detonated the market with its simplicity and a wide range of audiences.


Eve Energy review: This HomeKit smart plug doubles as a Thread router

PCWorld

A compact, HomeKit-compatible smart plug with plenty of automation options along with robust energy-monitoring features, Eve Energy might be pricier than its competitors, but it comes with an ace up its sleeve: support for Thread, an exciting wireless protocol that will--eventually--work hand-in-hand with Matter, the new smart home platform that promises to finally teach Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit to play nice with each other. Eve Energy checks most of the most important boxes when it comes with energy-monitoring smart plugs, but because it only works with HomeKit (for now, anyway), Android users will need to look elsewhere. The same is true for anyone who depends on Alexa or Google Assistant for smart home control. This review is part of TechHive's coverage of the best smart plugs, where you'll find reviews of the competition's offerings, plus a buyer's guide to the features you should consider when shopping for this type of product. Measuring roughly 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.3 inches (WxDxH, not including the prongs), the grounded Eve Energy plug is relatively compact compared to its competitors; while it is a tad wide, the plug is short enough to leave the second socket of a two-outlet plate free.


AI: enhancing the future of digital transformation - Business Reporter

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Digital transformation is no longer an inward tactic used to reform an organisation's operations; it's now a necessary undertaking sought out by CIOs and IT leaders. Recent developments have pushed organisations to embrace digitisation, causing the fourth industrial revolution and technologies such as artificial intelligence to go mainstream. Even though, according to Gartner, only 53 per cent of AI projects make it from prototype into production, companies can't ignore the benefits of successful AI implementation. Enhanced AI solutions such as the artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), conversational AI and machine learning (ML) are improving the future of digital transformation and offer more innovative ways than ever before to address business challenges. Today's AI solutions can be customised to address a company's unique set of challenges. But are these capabilities being used to their full advantage?


Top 5 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trends for 2021 - KDnuggets

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There are many sources which give similar answers to the question, "What is AI?". By the 1950's, there were many scientists, mathematicians and philosophers that were looking into the concept of Artificial Intelligence. One such person was Alan Turing, who to this day is considered by many to be the Father of Artificial Intelligence. He formed the idea and mathematical and logical reasoning behind the concept of machine intelligence wherein machines and computers would be able to replicate the behavior of humans and their intelligence. His paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence outlines his logic for the start of artificial intelligence.


Learning over No-Preferred and Preferred Sequence of Items for Robust Recommendation

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

In this paper, we propose a theoretically supported sequential strategy for training a large-scale Recommender System (RS) over implicit feedback, mainly in the form of clicks. The proposed approach consists in minimizing pairwise ranking loss over blocks of consecutive items constituted by a sequence of non-clicked items followed by a clicked one for each user. We present two variants of this strategy where model parameters are updated using either the momentum method or a gradient-based approach. To prevent updating the parameters for an abnormally high number of clicks over some targeted items (mainly due to bots), we introduce an upper and a lower threshold on the number of updates for each user. These thresholds are estimated over the distribution of the number of blocks in the training set. They affect the decision of RS by shifting the distribution of items that are shown to the users. Furthermore, we provide a convergence analysis of both algorithms and demonstrate their practical efficiency over six large-scale collections with respect to various ranking measures and computational time.


Maria: A Visual Experience Powered Conversational Agent

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Arguably, the visual perception of conversational agents to the physical world is a key way for them to exhibit the human-like intelligence. Image-grounded conversation is thus proposed to address this challenge. Existing works focus on exploring the multimodal dialog models that ground the conversation on a given image. In this paper, we take a step further to study image-grounded conversation under a fully open-ended setting where no paired dialog and image are assumed available. Specifically, we present Maria, a neural conversation agent powered by the visual world experiences which are retrieved from a large-scale image index. Maria consists of three flexible components, i.e., text-to-image retriever, visual concept detector and visual-knowledge-grounded response generator. The retriever aims to retrieve a correlated image to the dialog from an image index, while the visual concept detector extracts rich visual knowledge from the image. Then, the response generator is grounded on the extracted visual knowledge and dialog context to generate the target response. Extensive experiments demonstrate Maria outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods on automatic metrics and human evaluation, and can generate informative responses that have some visual commonsense of the physical world.


Teardown shows the new Apple TV 4K is easy to repair, but Siri Remote is a pain

Engadget

Given that the revamped Apple TV 4K looks identical to the last model, we figured that it would be similarly easy to repair. The site was able to tear right through the set-top box's case, thanks to a bit of prying and standard screws. In a unique twist, Apple also used metal contact pins to connect the ATV's large fan to its logic board. That makes it easy to remove without worrying about breaking any cables. Beyond that, the Apple TV 4K is basically a sandwich of easy to remove components.