At any given time, a job opening on LinkedIn receives over 250 applicants. Unilever gets around 1.8 million applications a year for measly 30K positions, and screening through a trove of data isn't child's play. It is where the company deploys AI and big data in HR to run a series of tests to trace behavioral traits and then a list of successful candidates is passed onto the human recruiters. Surprisingly, Unilever ends up hiring around 50% of those candidates. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has proven its mantle on countless occasions, making it a viable option in the recruitment process. However, both good and bad outcomes have been well-documented in the past.

By Vanshika Sharma Artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming businesses. We've seen significant advancements in the last year alone, and it's not only making sales more accurate but is also reducing the administrative burden on sales reps and revenue operations. With the increasing shift towards digital, businesses have aggressively deployed major tech-backed evolution. Utilizing the advancement of this shift, one of India's leading and only certified carbon neutral agarbathi manufacturers, Cycle Pure Agarbathi, a vertical of N. Ranga Rao and Sons, has implemented AI-powered sales force automation to become a more efficient and connected enterprise. Cycle Pure looks towards AI to achieve better sales execution and retain its dominance in the segment through route optimization, GRV monitoring, competition tracking, and analytics.

Adobe has been focused on making its mobile apps powerful photo-editing tools for quite some time. At its annual MAX design conference last fall, the company debuted Sensei: a collection of AI and deep learning tools that can analyze an image before applying some pretty hefty edits. To show off just what the system is capable of, Adobe posted a video this week that shows how Sensei can help transform a sub-par selfie into something worthy of Instagram or Snapchat. The video includes some tools we already knew about -- mainly the ability to copy one photo's style and look to another in a couple of taps. Adobe researchers worked with Cornell University to employ AI to take things like color, lighting and contrast you really like in one image and apply it to a boring ol' crappy photo.

It's a little known but often dangerous problem: each year, 3,500 people in the U.S. -- mostly young children -- swallow button batteries. Normally, these batteries pass through the body without incident. But if they come into prolonged contact with esophagus or stomach tissue, the results can be harmful: the batteries can cause an electric current that produces hydroxide, which burns through body tissue. A postdoctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shuhei Miyashita brought up this hazard to Daniela Rus, the professor who leads the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. A simple experiment proved how hazardous the little batteries can be.