AI Stats News: 62% Of US Consumers Like Using Chatbots To Interact With Businesses

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress of AI highlighted the growth in consumers' acceptance of chatbots, especially for help with routine tasks; questions about medical AI algorithms missing the worst patient outcomes; and new predictions for 2020 and beyond about the future of AI and work. Manpower France collects 1.3 million invoices from 80,000 companies annually. After nine months of testing Sidetrade's Aimie, a traditional machine learning-based tool, Manpower found that its collections increased 12% [Fortune] The first eight IT teams at Fannie Mae to receive Moogsoft's AIOps tool have seen a 35% reduction in IT incidents over the past 12 months; the teams using the AIOps tool have cut the time needed to resolve problems by between 25% and 75%, depending on the issue; Fannie expects that when it deploys the AI system to all business units and the system gets better at pinpointing root causes, monthly incidents will decline by 50% to 60% over the next year [WSJ] Familial hypercholesterolaemia or FH is a common genetic disorder that carries a 20-times higher risk for life-threatening cardiovascular disease, but today less than 10% percent of the 1.3 million Americans born with FH are diagnosed. The FIND FH screening algorithm was trained on data from 939 clinically diagnosed individuals and 83,136 individuals presumed free of FH. The model was then applied to a national health-care encounter database (170 million individuals) and an integrated health-care delivery system dataset (174,000 individuals).