Rise of machines or loyal robots: in which areas is artificial intelligence used
Artificial Intelligence Applications
The digital mind has ceased to be something fantastic and futuristic. There are more and more areas in which artificial intelligence is being applied. Industry, transportation, mining, banking and e-commerce are just a few of the areas in which AI is already being used effectively.
1. Yandex [consumer internet services]
Yandex is the most recognizable Russian brand associated with innovation. The company focuses on machine learning, neural networks and artificial intelligence to cope with the sheer volume of information it receives and produces on a daily basis.
To one degree or another, AI is used in every Yandex project:
• Yandex.Translate, thanks to the neural network, translates texts in a context-sensitive manner. He considers the source in full, and not in parts, so he selects synonyms more precisely and makes sentences.
• "Alice" is a voice assistant that independently learns and adapts to the person. “Alice” takes into account her past answers and thus gains experience. The developers claim that she understands 89-95% of human speech. For people, 96-98% is considered the norm. Alice can tell a story, play games and just chat with the user.
• Yandex.Weather already in 2015 learned to predict the weather (at least, that's what the company wrote in its blog). Meteum's unique technology uses machine learning and classic meteorological models to predict weather with local and home accuracy.
• Yandex.Traffic jams collect data from users' devices, analyze and then predict the traffic situation, and create optimal routes for trips.
• Algorithm "Korolyov" improves search results by analyzing the semantics of pages and taking into account user behavior. Millions of people serve as assessors. The search checks not only the compliance with key queries, but also the meaning of the content.
2. Cognitive geologist [oil and minerals]
The Cognitive Geologist intelligent system is used by Gazprom Neft. Its functions include inventory forecasting, risk assessment and development strategy planning. To improve the accuracy of the analysis, the Cognitive Geologist not only uses the original geological information and exploration data, but also learns itself. He accumulates experience, analyzes it and eliminates defects.
Artificial intelligence helps Gazprom Neft avoid blunders in the early stages of production, which are almost impossible to correct later.
3. ABBYY [linguistics and data mining]
This Russian company implements artificial intelligence in several directions:
• Technology Adaptive Document Recognition recognizes page design, separates text from non-text content, determines the role of elements such as headers and footers and checks the logical structure.
• Bank Tochka uses intelligent solutions from ABBYY for customer support. The system automatically tags requests when handling a call or chat conversation.
• Artificial intelligence from ABBYY allows VTB Bank to serve 25% more clients from small and medium-sized businesses. The algorithm segments documents, checks their composition, compares the data of statements, statements and certificates.
• Compero is a unique technology for understanding texts in natural language. The algorithm analyzes semantics and syntax, extracts events, connections between them and recognizes the meaning of the text.
4. Vision Labs [banking]
This startup makes facial recognition technologies for business clients. The products are focused on security systems, video surveillance, banks, financial sector and retail. The company itself claims that their system processes images 200 times faster than competitors' designs. According to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), it is one of the three best commercial face identification systems in the world.
The largest Russian companies use VisionLabs products: Mail.Ru, MTS, Sberbank, Tinkoff-Bank, MTS. Technology partners are Intel, SAS, ABBYY. In 2016, an open platform for computer vision developers was launched in cooperation with Google and Facebook.
5. Home App [real estate]
Russian mathematician Alexei Igoshin developed and implemented artificial intelligence, which helps to estimate the cost of an apartment in Moscow. Here's what a big data machine analysis system does:
• analyzes ads from CIAN, Avito and six dozen other platforms for the sale of real estate;
• removes false ads from search results;
• analyzes the history of prices for apartments in a particular area in recent years;
• studies the dynamics of demand;
• analyzes the ratio of supply and demand for certain types of apartments or housing in a particular area.
HomeApp helps everyone: buyers - to find good real estate at the best price, sellers - to complete a deal faster, but not cheapen. The efficiency of the system is increased due to the fact that, as a result of the analysis, the target group of clients is determined. She receives offers through targeted ads on websites, social networks and on the ad platforms themselves.
6. Rostelecom [personnel selection]
In 2017, Rostelecom began recruiting personnel using artificial intelligence. The system analyzes the profiles of applicants for specific positions from several specialized resources (Superjob, Headhunter, Avito), and also evaluates pages on social networks. The goal of AI is to find candidates who can work in a specific position for at least 6 months.
At first, Rostelecom used the technology to select operators for call centers. The company has a large staff turnover in this direction. Machine selection of candidates has helped to significantly reduce the costs of interviews, registration and termination of employees. The JungleJobs company (the creator of the system) reported that the budget for searching and hiring personnel was reduced by 1.5-2 times.
7. Avito [online ads]
One of the main ad platforms in Russia uses artificial intelligence to improve the accuracy of recommendations on the pages, improve search results and remove fake applications. The service's mobile application has a "Search by photo" function. The system uses computer vision, selecting from the database products with the most similar image.
8. Tesla [automotive]
This electric vehicle manufacturer develops and implements artificial intelligence to control cars. Elon Musk claims that Hardware 3's digital vision will process up to 2,000 frames per second. This is the company's own product. Previously Tesla used Nvidia Drive hardware that was less efficient (200 fps).
Elon Musk's predictions are fantastic. The billionaire says that in 10 years, artificial intelligence will surpass humans in the safety and reliability of driving a car.
9. Amazon.com [e-commerce]
Amazon is one of the pioneers of real-world AI adoption. The company used AI to select candidates for jobs back in 2014. The next year, the neural network was fired when it turned out to favor men. It is noteworthy that this is not a mistake of the designers, but a feature acquired during self-learning. The system analyzed the resumes of people hired in the last 10 years, and there were simply more men in this selection.
This example says that AI is really capable of simplifying some tasks. The main thing is to use it correctly, check it regularly and correct it in a timely manner.
Here are a few more AI-related Amazon projects:
• Kiva. Amazon bought a warehouse robot company for $ 775 million and began to manufacture them for itself. Kiva cuts shipping times and helps the company stock 50% more goods. Thus, they have reduced operating costs by 20%. It is planned to introduce robots in the stages of sorting and packing.
• Alexa. It is an intelligent voice assistant from Amazon. It is now available on iOS, in the Lexi app, and in the browser interface. The functionality of the system is limited to information about news, weather and online shopping, but it will clearly be improved. For example, developers from Amazon are working on an algorithm that recognizes not only text, but also its emotional coloring.
• The company's research teams operate in Berlin and New York that use artificial intelligence to analyze big data. The technology is aimed at predicting the price of products and finding market patterns. The managing director of Amazon's German development center says the software is scripting customer behavior for the next few seconds and weeks.
Jeff Bezos is a big bet on AI. Now his business empire employs over 100 engineers, designers and scientists who create "smart" machines.
10. Netflix [entertainment services]
The largest and one of the most successful streaming services uses artificial intelligence to recommend the most interesting TV shows and movies to users. The system relies on a person's browsing history, as well as on the habits of other people (the audience is segmented by age, geography, habits and expenses).
Netflix is kind of more fluent and unconventional with AI. So, in 2016, a short film appeared in the catalog of films, created specifically for AI. The film was made for testing codecs that are used to encrypt and decrypt a video stream. They also check the broadcast quality in 4K.
Another project of the company is The Other Side of the Wind. This is a film by Orson Welles, filmed in the 1970s, but did not go through all stages of editing during the director's lifetime. The AI-based system has been doing editing these days and, according to the developers, has significantly improved the image quality (up to 4K).
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