2. • Belief: Technology is inherently good.
• Reality: Intrinsic value of technology is neutral.
• How is AI beneficial?
• AI can automate tasks.
• AI can generate value.
• AI can reduce human error.
• AI can replace humans?.
• If AI can replace humans, it has the potential to impact all the domains
3. Industry Perception about AI
• Administration.
• Education.
• Automative.
• Agriculture.
• Disaster Management.
• Healthcare.
• Environment.
• Safety.
Domians:
4. ADMINISTRATION
AI for Disabled
• Hard of hearing individuals rely on sign language to communicate.
• Hugo translates all the texts in website.
• Hand Talk uses AI to translate Portuguese into Brazilian Sign Language.
• Enables digital communication for deaf.
AI in Banking
• AI completely empowering the Banking sector.
• CogniCor a AI software provides digital assistants for wealth management .
• OCBC Bank uses CogniCor to power Emma, their home and loan renovation
service chat-bot.
• After training Emma, it interrupted the terminologies used in loan applications.
• Emma is also able to tell a customer how much they can borrow accurately.
Banking
5. EDUCATION Global classroom
• Education has no limits and AI helped to eliminate boundaries in that.
• Blippar an AI based education company combine’s CV and augmented reality.
• To enhance the way students learn in the classroom.
• The interactive materials bring subjects like geography, biology & physics to a visual
space.
• Example: Instead of reading about volcanic eruption, it shows virtual 3-D model of the
eruption.
Administrative Tasks
• Educators spend a more time on grading, assessments, and on attendance.
• Edx is an online educational platform automated the way of evaluating assesments.
• Evalbox an online test software that automated the grading process in MCQ tests.
• SmartIdentification™ a software by AIndra Labs checks student’s attendance using
face recognition.
8. AGRICULTURE
High-throughput Precision Phenotyping
•“ Imago AI” an ag-tech startup use AI to increase crop.
• ML & CV to automate tasks like measure crop quality & weighing
yeilds.
• AI-based image processing technique capture’s more data points
than human eye.
• Classify best crop variety to use in particular location & climate
condition.
Real time quality grading
Scheduled Irrigation
Intelligent Irrigation
• Irrigation is critical to arid regions.
• But groundwater resources are depleted due to inefficient
irrigation practices.
• University of Beirut applied ML to weather and remotely-
sensed agricultural data.
• Farmers get irrigation schedules that include precise amount
of water needed.
9. East Pest Warning System
Cotton Pest Identification
• AI enabled Integrated pest management.
• Farmers take regular photos of pest traps.
• Smartphone app classifies and counts pets based on photos of pest traps taken by
farmers.
• Farmers get timely advice on reducing crop loss and over-use of pesticides.
• Wadhwani Institute for AI conducting field trials in cotton farms in partnership with
government of Maharashtra.
Vertical Farming
Vertical Indoor Farming
• AI helps to do farming vertically.
• Plenty Farms a greenhouse company uses IOT sensors, AI to grow crops vertically.
• Using CV collected images and data about plants at multiple points in their life cycle.
• The collected information are analyzed using machine learning techniques.
• So, that AI automatically adjust the light frequency, water flow, temperature, & oxygen to
the plants.
AGRICULTURE
10. HEALTHCARE
ECG Analysis
Low-Glucose without FINGERPRICK!
• Hypoglycaemic events from ECG analysis.
• University of Warwick extracted features from ECG to predict low glucose levels.
• Replaced invasive fingerprick testing.
• Works with about 82% reliability.
• ECG can be recorded even while sleeping.
ASTapp on Mobile
Antibiotic Resistance Diagnostics
• Antimicrobial Resistance is a major public health concern.
• Antibiogram needs to be interpreted by a microbiologist.
• ASTapp is a free, offline mobile application help non-expert staff to interept
antibiograms.
• Analysis of antibiogram pictures is done using Computer Vision(CV).
• Ensure patients are receiving the most appropriate antibiotics.
11. Newborn & Child Health
• AI-CV powered anthropometry tool in smart phone.
• Body measurements using CV & Weight compute using AI.
• Empower health workers to screen low-birth-weight babies.
• Newborn Babies from vulnerable society get medical care they deserve and need.
• Wadhwani AI is only team from developing world vying for IBM Watson AI XPRIZE.
AI & CV based Anthropometry
Developing New Medicines with AI
Medicines with AI
• Developing vaccines takes thousands of hours due to human clinical trial.
• Cost around 2.6 billion to put each drug on clinical trail.
• Among that only 10% of drugs are successfully come to global market.
• One of biggest AI breakthrough is Adam a robot with researching functions of yeast.
• Hypothesized the functions of 19 genes within yeast, predicted 9 new & accurate
hypothesis.
HEALTHCARE
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14. ENVIRONMENT
Solar-powered cell phones to detect sounds of illegal logging
Deforestation & Poaching
• Rainforest connection generate real time data from tropical forests.
• Illegal Deforestation: Real-time alerts for trucks & signs of incursion.
• Animal Poaching: alerts for trucks & motorcycles being used by poachers.
• Bio-Acoustic Monitoring: browse rainforest to track endangered species.
Illegal mine
Illegal Mining & Fishing
• Illegal mines pollute surrounding areas, contaminating water and fish.
• Columbian researchers used ML on satellite imagery to detect illegal
mines.
• Global Fishing Watch program pairs ML & data insights to identify
illegal fishing activity.
• Indonesia sank 350 foreign boats which entered EEZ!.
15. SAFETY
Drones
Drone Technology
• Drones can replace humans in dangerous tasks. Eg: Military operations.
• Computer vision is playing a key role in Drone Technology.
• DRDO Rustom a UAV developed by India for the Indian Armed Forces.
• It also plays role in covid-19 situation’s. Eg: Ensure people practice social distance.
Harassment
Monitors Workplace Harassment
• Unfortunately 81% of women in US experienced sexual harassment in workplace.
• Using NLP, AI can scan work emails to spot inappropriate phrases then send alerts.
• By crunching data, AI can discover wage gaps and unequal promotions.
• With voice recognition, AI can recognise who is speaking the most in meetings.
16. DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Earthquake
Earthquake Prediction
• Thibaut Petrol leads an AI project called ConvNet Quake.
• First neural network in the world that can detect earthquakes.
• Uses ML to analyze seismograms.
• Tested in Oklahoma, with 17 times detected many earthquakes.
Landslides
Landslides & Fire
• Pennsylvania state University researchers used AI to predict landslide location, & time.
• Researchers partnered with NYC Fire Dept. to build models to predict similar events.
• Based on weather, traffic, location, type of emergency and more.
• Reliable AI system that can warn ahead of natural disaster could save thousands of life.
17. Random Thoughts
• AI in Defence Forces. Eg: War Prediction.
• AI in Newsroom. Eg: Smarter Journalism.
• AI in Automobiles. Eg: Automatic vehicle repairs.
• AI in Transportation. Eg: Hyperloop an AI based smart Train.
• AI in Gaming Technology. Eg: Virtual world.
• AI in Water Management . Eg: Automatically separate drinking water from ocean water.
• AI in Marketing. Eg: Automatically creates new advertisments based on trend.
• AI in Labour Market. Eg: Replace humans by robots in fields like construction, food delivery.
• AI in Tourism. Eg: Automatically detect customer plans and call them before they ask.
• AI in Entertainment Industry. Eg: Automatically develop movie based on story and script.