AI has potential applications across many domains including administration, education, automotive, agriculture, healthcare, environment, and safety. In administration, AI can help disabled individuals communicate through translation technologies and empower banking through chatbots and loan analysis. In education, AI enhances classroom learning and automates administrative tasks. Across domains, AI can automate tasks, generate value, and reduce human error.
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.