January 23, 2020

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Growth of Al democratizationedit

PC Quest

Hence, the top 3 predictions for 2020 could be that loT with 5G would be more prevalent; Industries would be more adoptive towards AI, more and more such industries would be data intensive and we will see a rise of extended reality application all over again. Kanya Mandal, IEEE Member and Data Science Professional

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Speak the language of convenience with Voice Bankingedit

Money Control

One such smart transition is the use of IoT (Internet of Things) for banking. With IoT devices, customers can access multiple banking services like ATM locator, credit/debit transfer, balance inquiry, etc. in real time. The next vision is to have touchless banking, and this milestone can be achieved with Voice banking, experts indicate.

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Safe from cyber attackedit

Business Standard

Industry experts say that the need for data security has become paramount with the coming of the digital economy and the expansive base of internet-based enterprises such as Flipkart, Amazon, Swiggy, Ola and many others. “With economies increasingly integrated with cloud, block chain, artificial intelligence, cybercrime is seen as the greatest threat to every profession, industry, and company in the world.

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Robots and Humans: Combined potential will help businesses deliver unprecedented resultsedit

Business Today

The market in India for robots is expected to emulate global trends. With a low robot density in the manufacturing industry (4 industrial robots per 10,000 employees). India is poised for an industrial automation revolution. Industrial robot sales reached a new record of 4,771 in 2018, up 39 per cent from the previous year (one of the highest among the largest markets).

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No business can stay untouched from the Artificial Intelligence revolution: Telangana Minister KTRedit

Wio News

Talking about the importance of Artificial Intelligence in various sectors, Minister KTR said, No business can stay untouched from the AI revolution. AI must be factored into every policy or strategy, whether government, IT, non-IT industries. We consider AI to be integral to all our work and hence in Telangana, we have dedicated 2020 to the year of AI.

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Is Artificial Intelligence All Set To Revolutionize Digital Marketingedit

CIOL

In 2015, Google introduced Rankbrain, a Machine Learning based search engine algorithm that helps Google process search results and returns relevant answers to the user. The algorithm uses Artificial Intelligence to parse and respond to user queries in a manner close to how a human would.

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Indian businesses most likely to have high impact of cybersecurity incidentsedit

Deccan Chronicle

The report highlights that India is most likely to have a high impact (58 per cent) of cybersecurity incidents. The report further identifies data breach, data tampering, and fraud as the top three risks Indian enterprises will be prone to in 2021, in addition to newer risks such as defacement.

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Goodbye, smartphone decade…edit

Business Standard

The sharing economy is built on the smartphone foundation with the help of other technologies such as cloud computing. Smartphone communication is mediating our careers and communities and having a salutary effect along with another recent trend: The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in almost every walk of life.

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Deepening tech innovation ties on BRICS agenda this year: Reportedit

Express Computer

What small companies are creating in terms of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) has not yet been created by big ones it has not been created by anyone, for that matter, he added.

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AR-VR Can Be The Healthcare Game Changeredit

PC Quest

With the vast potential of the virtual world, it’s no wonder that most of the big tech players have come up with AR-VR platforms. Microsoft, Sony Corporation HTC, Samsung and Amazon are leading the pack but other big players include Unity 3D, OpenVR, Unreal, Vuforia, Google VR, Amazon Sumerian, AR Core and Apple’s AR Kit

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Artificial General Intelligence: An Advancement to Foreseeedit

Analytics Insight

By Priya Dialani

A key part of the account of Artificial General Intelligence is Moore’s Law, named after Intel fellow co-founder Gordon Moore, who anticipated a doubling in the number of transistors on integrated circuits every two years. Today, Moore’s Law is commonly expected to mean computers multiplying in speed every 18 months

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AI is more profound than fire: Pichaiedit

Hindustan Times

Google’s chief executive officer (CEO) has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity. “AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity. It’s more profound than fire or electricity,” Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Watch: Everything you need to know about electric vehiclesedit

CNBC TV18

Electric vehicles are slowly but surely making inroads into the transportation industry, but is this enough to actually change the way we travel Here in Singapore, there were more than 930,000 vehicles on the road in 2018. Only 707 of them were electric. That doesn’t sound like much, but just 5 years before that, there were only seven electric vehicles

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Financing may not come easy for purchase of highpriced EV’sedit

The Economic Times

Inadequate charging infrastructure, reliance on battery imports, range anxiety and high prices are not the only problems in India’s electric vehicles (EV) industry. Financing these cars isn’t too easy either.

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E-bus plan hits roadblock againedit

The Hindu

The ambitious project to introduce electric buses in Bengaluru has run into yet another hurdle. This delay comes in the wake of a series of back and forth over the last few months. Under the FAME India-II scheme, the State will get 400 e-buses, of which 300 will be leased by the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation.

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Industry News: Future of Work

What top CEOs think about AI, upskilling for future jobs: Read on to find outedit

CNBC TV18

Prevailing sentiments are not positive and CEOs feel that the global economy is not going to pick up steam anytime soon, While concerns over data collection, cybersecurity and privacy continue to haunt executives, they are keen on adopting artificial intelligence.

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What Does New Age Work Culture Entailedit

BW Education

A second aspect of new age skills is flexibility. With the emergence of gig economy, the rigid boundaries of office environment physical infrastructure, time of work, place of work etc. which are, to some extent, considered sacrosanct today, are getting dimmed. Getting work done is gaining greater currency than following a rigid process.

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Virtual bosses may oust middle managers in 10 yearsedit

The Times of India

The report calls human and technology productivity a killer combo where technology will not take away the jobs but will become a coworker. From recruiting to performance reviews, departments of robot resources will rival human resources by 2028. Artificial intelligence itself can replace nearly 400 million workers globally over the next decade. It means organisations would need workers that can work with AI.

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The hits and misses of using Artificial intelligence for recruitmentedit

Live Mint

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been occupying some of the best minds of this century, but the hype around it is just as massive. AI is entering everyday lives and products, and many of us find ourselves in positions, where we need to evaluate the genuineness of claims to using AI.

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Industry News: Education

Why we need to revamp higher edu right nowedit

The New Indian Express

The two issues of significant interest that currently loom over the higher education scenario in India are the phenomenal numbers of high school graduates produced by the country annually and the relevance of what we provide to them in terms of higher education.

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These two ideas of UGC may reform education in India, liberate studentsedit

The Times of India

The UGC has finalised in idealevel two new programmes to reform higher education in the country national academic credit bank and semester outreach programme and formed teams to frame regulations for the same, said University Grants Commission vice chairman Bhushan Patwardhan on Wednesday.

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India joins WEF reskilling initiativeedit

The Hans India

India on Wednesday joined as a founding government member the World Economic Forums Reskilling Revolution, an initiative to provide one billion. Davos: India on Wednesday joined as a founding government member the World Economic Forums Reskilling Revolution, an initiative to provide one billion people with better education, skills and jobs by 2030.

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