With the advent of technology, it has become easy for insurance companies to carry out insurance renewal and other processes. Over the years, artificial intelligence has developed to a great extent, making it possible for companies to carry out tech driven operations in an easy way, including the insurance industry. With the impact of AI, application of machine learning, data modeling, the entire insurance process has been smooth, thereby increasing customer satisfaction to a great level. AI has played a major role in the motor insurance industry, making it easy for companies to carry out car inspection processes, thereby automating purchase, claims and renewal processes to a great extent. The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 makes it mandatory for a vehicle owner to drive with a valid car insurance policy.

At a recent communications conference in Gurgaon, I was impressed by one of the presentations on Artificial Intelligence and its disruptive ability to take away jobs (worst case scenarios) or act as a force multiplier. However, if one looks around AI is already in our lives and possibly in our pockets. I would say that we are using AI much before it became a fashionable terminology. Perhaps am a bit of a geek, but below are some of interesting intelligence we are using and have made them a habit. Alerts: We all are subscribed to Google Alerts.

Between fiddling our fingers on the tiny buttons of our TV remote and scrolling through endless menus to find something worth watching and talking to a smart assistant via your remote or your smart TV to find a movie based on your interests, which one of them sounds more absurd? The concept of machine-human intelligence coined during the mid-twentieth century and increasingly popular in the sci-fi movies during the early days, has long become a reality and is unfolding more and more potential areas of its application with each passing day. Instead of having incertitude regarding the notion of pursuing AI, most of the companies are now asking themselves the question of how should they pursue AI as they try to unlock the hidden potentials it can provide, and the creative and informatics industries are no exception to the trend. The highly packed and ambitious media industry is always on the hunt for new ways to compete with the firms adopting newer technologies to stay in pace with rising technological transformation. Leading this rapid transformation are the horses of efficient workflow support, content distribution management and revenue growth support.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an idea seems to have caught the imagination of both industry and academia alike. Although AI-related academic research has been in place since the late nineties but it is recently that products and services inspired by AI have emerged out of labs into our daily routine activities. Whether it is the buzz around autonomic vehicles, drones, speech recognition, various voice response systems like Alexa and Google assistant, every single one of these products has some form of AI at its core. Undoubtedly, ever-increasing processing speeds and storage capacities along with possibilities of machine to machine (M2M) communication have let the cat out of the bag. Today we produce more data in a single day then possibly we did in the entire year in the eighties.

Artificial Intelligence (more commonly known as AI) has successfully permeated our lives in the truest sense. From making a business decision to completely changing your profession, AI is rapidly transforming today's business industry. On one hand, it can lead you to a life of professional growth and prosperity if you accept it or it can make you cry tears of frustration. The trick is to understand AI because it is here to stay. Photography is subjective while artificial intelligence (AI) is objective.

The moment IBM Watson played Jeopardy on TV almost a decade ago was the time AI burst onto the scene. It was a breakthrough marketing moment. Over the last decade, IBM Watson has remained the go-to player in Artificial Intelligence as the industry grows. Every year IBM holds their Think conference where they pull together thought leaders from companies, governments, think tanks and soon. This has become the AI super-show.

As we look back on the year gone by, few technologies or terms have dominated the enterprise landscape and the public domain like artificial intelligence (AI) did in 2018. Being developed for decades now, AI has already become a technology which both enterprises and consumers use intensively. Just try to imagine a day without Google. AI as technology is constantly being enhanced further and made better at performing complex tasks which humans cannot, thus giving individuals as well as businesses unprecedented capabilities. Sales are one area where the potential for transformation is perhaps the greatest. Rapid technological advancements and proliferation of data are among the key innovations driving AI.

We met Tanmay while he was giving a keynote speech to our tech associates (yes, he gives keynote speeches around the world). Please enjoy Tanmay's article on 5 machine learning services powered by Watson. Computers have never been good at understanding non-mathematical language, but a branch of artificial intelligence aims to change that. Machine learning (ML), a subset of artificial intelligence, aims to enable computers to understand natural language and allow them to reason for themselves. Leading this initiative are services like IBM's Watson, an open platform accessible to developers around the world. In today's world, everyone is using machine learning technologies on a daily basis, whether they realize it or not.