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Welcome to this NPTEL online certification course
on artificial intelligence and marketing. And now
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we will talk about module 7. Now, as you can
see that we are we are talking about chapter 2,
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that is how to go about developing marketing
strategies and plans using AI. In module 6,
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we have talked about the customer value and
the role of artificial intelligence in the
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value delivery process. Now this module 7 to
11, they are dedicated to understanding how
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to transform marketing strategy with the help
of AI. So, this is chapter 2 and we are talking
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about the transforming marketing strategy using
AI and which is part 1 and we are in module 7.
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To have a overview of this module, we will start
with exploring the ideas framework and understand
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five elements of technology landscape.
Then we will study the intelligence and
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data landscape of ideas framework in detail.
Then we will understand different dimensions
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of human and machine intelligence. After
that, we will study the trade-off between
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applying human and machine intelligence to
solving marketing and business problems.
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Thereafter, we will understand the shortcomings
of intelligent systems and the various kinds
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of problems that come with them. And then we
will talk about exploring the building blocks
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of the modern-day data foundation. So, now we
let us look at the ideas framework. So, these
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the five elements of the technology landscape
are, one is intelligence, the second is data,
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the third is expertise, the fourth is architecture
and the fifth is strategy and together they form
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this ideas framework, IDEAS. Now, these elements
create opportunities for value creation and
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distribution in innovative ways and change the
way business leaders can manage the procurement,
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technology development, human resource
management and firm infrastructure.
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So, these five elements will help the
leaders in in managing this these three,
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fourth things. Technology implementations
for the sake of technology does not bring
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the desired value for companies. So, it is
not it should not be just for the sake of the
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technology. Technology based on deep learning
have little sense of causality space. So,
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this causality means cause and
effect relationship. Space, time
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or other fundamental concepts that human beings
effortlessly call on to move through the world.
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Now, the first component of ideas framework is
intelligence. So, that is the first component of
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ideas framework. Companies are now creating
applications and machines whose reasoning
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ability is adaptable and savvy more like the
way human approaches a problem and the task. So,
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it is more human-like. For example, new
generation of robots can generalize in real
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world settings like warehouses manipulating
items without being told what to do.
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Consider emotional AI which grew out of work with
autistic children to help them understand and
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express their emotions. It is now evolving into
on board automobile AI that could be as effective
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in saving motorist lives as seed welds by
leveraging the most powerful cognitive characters
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of human that is awareness and adaptability. These
developments promise potentially more intelligent
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solution to pressing commercial and social
challenges. Now, let us look at the intelligence
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from the perspective of human versus machine.
So, we are talking about the human supremacy.
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No machine powered by AI can yet match the ease
and efficiency with which even the youngest
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human learn comprehend and contextualize.
Accidentally drop an object and a one year
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old child who sees you reaching out
for it will retrieve it for you. So,
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this is how one year old child will respond.
Now, throw it down on the purpose and the
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child will ignore it. So, if it falls
then the child will pick it up for you.
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If you throw it then the child
will ignore it. In other words,
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even very small children understand that
other people have intentions. That is an
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extraordinary cognitive ability that seems to
come almost pre-wired into the human brain. That
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is not all. Beginning at a very young age,
they develop an intuitive sense of physics.
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They begin expecting objects to move along smooth
paths. So, this is what a child expects. They
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remain in existence, fall when unsupported and not
act at a distance. Now, where machine supremacy
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comes in, yet AI can do many things that people,
despite being endowed with natural intelligence,
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find impossible or difficult to do well. That is,
one is recognize patterns in vast amount of data.
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So that defeats the greatest champion at chess, Go
and Jeopardy. Run complex manufacturing processes
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efficiently and calls to customer service
centers. Run complex manufacturing processes
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efficiently aid callers to customer service
centers. Analyze whether soil conditions,
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satellite imagery to help farmers examine
crop yields. Scan millions of internet images.
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In the fight against child exploitation, detect
financial fraud. Predict customer preferences,
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personalize the advertising and much else. So,
this is where machines are superior to human. Now,
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the middle ground between the fight of these
two, man and machine supremacy, automating
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such task lies beyond not only the capabilities of
human, but also of traditional procedure logic and
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programming. And most important, AI has enabled
humans and machines to complement each other.
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So, it is not about man versus machine. It
is about how they can come together. So,
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AI has enabled humans and machines to
complement each other, transforming
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mechanistic processes into highly adaptive,
organic and human centered activities. The
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next comes human like machine intelligence. A
2022 report by Accenture shows that more than
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three-fourth of major companies currently
have deep learning initiatives underway.
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Deep learning is a powerful subset of machine
learning. It works through neural networks
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consisting of simple neuron like processing units
that collectively perform complex computations. AI
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based on deep learning must be trained from the
bottom up on massive amounts of data and often
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fine-tuned with additional data. So, deep learning
is trained from bottom up and massive amount of
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data is required. But this data-hungry approach
is beginning to run into significant challenges.
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Challenges of capacity, challenge
of affordability and the challenge
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of sustainability. So, these are the three
challenges that this deep learning faces. So,
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the three challenges that deep
learning faces are capacity,
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affordability and sustainability. Meanwhile,
on the frontiers of research, the nature of
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machine intelligence is taking radically
human turn, becoming less artificial and
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more intelligent. Less like the autonomous vehicle
that has to be laboriously taught everything and
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more like the human infant who comes equipped
with a remarkable efficient capacity to learn.
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The quest for more human like AI after lying
dormant for decades have taken on a new life.
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Impelled by the limits that current approaches
to intelligence are now running up against. For
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senior leaders, navigating this dilemma begins
with an understanding of those limits. Now,
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what is the trouble with intelligence? The
limit of the present deep learning-based
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AI warrants a new approach to machine
intelligence which is more human like. So,
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deep learning is more suitable
or suited to tackle for certain
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narrowly defined problems and not as
a basis for more general intelligence.
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So, this deep learning is not going to replace
general intelligence. Some key troubles with the
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present-day AI are many AI systems are not all
that smart. AI image recognition was one of the
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great AI success stories of recent years, but it
has been very easily confused by researchers. What
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is at stake is not simply correctly classifying an
image but genuinely recognizing an object. As with
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self-driving cars or delivering drones,
failure could have fatal consequences.
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The next is, so that was one problem.
The next problem is complex systems
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suffer from the black box problem.
AI systems are often used to help
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make highly consequential decisions. Who
gets approved for a loan, who gets hired,
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who wins payroll, who long, how long
a present sentence someone gets,
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where and how a company ads are distributed on
social media and more. But many of these systems,
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especially those that employ deep learning
are opaque, that is they are not transparent.
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So, it is impossible to explain how these
deep learning algorithms working with
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enormous amounts number of parameters and
many intricately interconnected layers of
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abstraction reach their conclusion. And those
conclusions can sometimes be disastrous. So,
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one is that we do not know how they have
reached that conclusion. And then that can
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be sometimes disastrous. Resulting in racial
discrimination in loans and criminal justice,
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respected brands whose ads on social media show up
next to neo-nausea content or conspiracy theories.
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So, they lack fundamental
knowledge frameworks. So,
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that is the third problem that they
lack fundamental knowledge frameworks.
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Causation an essential component of common
sense. Much of the success of deep learning
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has been driven by powerful ability to find
correlations. So, this is what we are looking
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for such as that between a constellation
of symptoms and a particular disease.
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But as we should all know by now correlation
is not causation. So, this correlation does
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not mean cause and effect relationship. If machine
understood that one thing causes another then they
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would not need to be retrained for each new task.
Instead, they should apply what they know in one
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domain to the different domain. Now, let us talk
about the intelligence and human AI augmentation.
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AI has enabled human and machine
to work together efficiently. And
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such collaboration is creating an
array of new high value jobs. So,
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now these humans and machines are coming together,
and they have created high value jobs. Now,
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let us take a look at the case of Obeta a
German electronic wholesaler. At Obeta a
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German electronic wholesaler whose warehouse is
run by Austrian warehouse logistic company NAP.
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Human workers are teaching a new generation
of robo pickers how to handle different sized
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and textured items. To train a robo NAP
workers put unfamiliar object in front of
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it and see if it can successfully adapt
to them. When it fails it can update its
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understanding of what it is seeing and try
different approaches. But when it succeeds
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it gets a reward signal programmed
by humans to reinforce the learning.
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Then a set of SKUs that is stock keeping
units differs totally from other sets.
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The team reverts to supervised learning,
collecting and labeling a lot of new training
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data as happens with deep learning systems.
NAP robo pickers are acquiring general purpose
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abilities including 3D perception and an
understanding of how objects can be moved
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and manipulated. In many cases the items have
not been pre-categorized, which is unusual
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for industrial packaging systems. It means
that the robots are learning how to handle
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them in real time. Now, this is a critical
skill to have when dealing with electronics
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especially when you consider the different care
required to handle a light bulb and a stove.
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What are the implications of using smart
robots? One is the increased reliability.
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Previously NAP robo pickers reliably handled
only about 15% of the objects. The covariant
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powered robots now reliably handle about 95%
of the objects. The second is the increased
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speed. Robots are faster than humans, picking
about 600 objects an hour versus 450 for human.
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The third is no layoff. Human workers instead
of losing their jobs have been retrained to
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understand more about robotics and computers. Two,
we next discuss the future of intelligence. Now
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let us look at the future of intelligence.
The authors of building machines that learn
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and think like humans, a seminal piece on
the new direction in machine intelligence
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state. As long as natural intelligence
remains the best example of intelligence,
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we believe that the project of reverse
engineering, the human solution to
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difficult computational problems will continue to
inform and advance the artificial intelligence.
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The question of for senior leaders in which
more human like cognitive abilities detailed
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next might be most relevant to capture value for
their businesses and delivering value to their
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customers. So, the first is generalizing in real
world settings. While theoretical arguments rage
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over deep learning versus some ideal versions of
artificial general intelligence as the means of
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getting to more human like intelligence,
practitioners are not waiting. They are
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drawing on all the disciplines of AI to open up
new possibilities for machine capabilities and
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performance. For example, covariants are
looking to build out its brain to power
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robots in manufacturing, agriculture, hospitality,
commercial kitchens and eventually people's homes.
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The case of Alberta using smart robots
which we discussed is also an example of
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this kind of applications. The next is the
survival of the fittest algorithm. For a
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e-commerce seller like Zappos, irrelevant
search results are a perennial headache.
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Because queries can now have multiple
different meanings to a website search
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engine. Having accurate search results among
the enormous inventory can be very difficult.
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So potential customers who enter such term
for a particular style of dress shoe who are
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shown dresses instead will soon get fed
up and move on to the competitors. So,
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the customer are asking for dress shoes and
the search engine is showing them dress so
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they will soon be fed up and move on to
the competitors. To solve the problem,
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Zappos is putting algorithm against each other in
a digital game of survival. A relevance text which
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stimulates how users behave rewards the winning
algorithm by passing on its trait to the next
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generation of algorithms. The best performing
algorithm goes live on the website until it
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is superseded by a fitter one, continuously
improving the performance of the search engines.
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Making better bets, so human routinely and often
effortlessly sort through probabilities and act
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on the likeliest, even with relatively little
prior experience. Machines are now being taught
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to mimic such reasoning through the application
of Gaussian processes that is probabilistic models
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that can deal with extensive uncertainty, act on
space data and learn from experience. Example of
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this is the project Loon by Alphabet that is the
Google's parent company. Then comes the closing in
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on causation. AI is good at spotting correlations
and making valuable predictions based on them.
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So that is what the problem with AI is.
For instance, GNS Healthcare, a Cambridge,
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Massachusetts precision machine company uses
causal algorithms to help some of the world's
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largest pharmaceutical companies understand
not only which patient responds to what drugs,
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but also why do they respond. So
that is also important. So, what,
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which patient will respond to what drug that
is one and why are they doing so. So that is
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another important thing that it does so
what and why. Using Bayesian techniques,
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this software platform translates data into
causal models, cause and effect models.
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So this causal model is cause and effect
models. These techniques identify which
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variables in a data set appears to have the
most influence on other variables. The next
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comes taking on the time and space.
Researchers at the MIT IBM Watson AI
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lab have recently developed a new technique for
training video recognition systems that is both
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highly accurate and saves on computation
costs. The researchers were able to train
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video recognition models three times faster
than existing state-of-the-art techniques.
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So it has increased the efficiency of the
of the models. The increased speed could be
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critical for the ability of autonomous vehicles
to recognize and react to visual information and
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to predict what is likely to take place around
them. Retailers would benefit immensely from
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such a video recognition technology. Next
comes calling on common sense. No AI system
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currently deployed can reliably answer a
broad range of simple questions such as,
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if I put my socks in a drawer, will
they still be there tomorrow? So that
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is a simple question that the AI system
are not able to answer. How can you tell
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if a milk carton is full? So, these are
some simple questions where the AI fails.
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To help define what it means for machines to
have common sense, AI2 that is Allen Institute of
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Artificial Intelligence is developing a portfolio
of tasks against which progress can be measured.
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The Defence Advanced Research Project Agency,
DARPA, is investing $20 to $2 billion in AI
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research. In its Common Machine Sense program,
researchers will create models that mimic core
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domain of human cognition, including the domain
of objects that is intuitive physics, places,
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spatial navigation and agents’ intentional
actors. So, this is what this machine common
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sense program is trying to achieve. Researchers
at Microsoft and MacGill University have jointly
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developed a system that has shown great promise
for untangling ambiguities in natural languages.
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Untangling ambiguities in natural language,
a problem that requires diverse forms of
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inference and knowledge. With such systems,
the goal is to produce both the right answer
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and the rationale for the answer. It is not only
about the right answer but also the rationale for
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that answer. Consider chatbots and voice digital
assistants, which often leaves users frustrated.
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They would immensely benefit from these
advancements. Tracking of emotions. Affectiva,
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a Boston startup founded in 2009 by
researchers from MIT framed Media
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Lab and acquired in mid-2021 by Swedish
company SmartEye, is currently working
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on an AI system designed to read emotions. So
now we are moving on to reading the emotions.
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Affectiva algorithms read people faces to detect
their emotional and other cognitive states.
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The technology is being used in
AI-assisted semi-autonomous cars. So,
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we are not talking of only the autonomous car,
we are talking of semi-autonomous cars. The
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company has also developed an emotion tracking
system that enables media and advertisers to
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test responses to their programming and
video ads with the target audience. The
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system is based on the analysis of more
than 7.6 million faces in 87 countries.
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So this is the data set that is being used
for this kind of study. About one-fourth
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of the Fortune Global 500 have used the
technology to test their ads around the
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world and help them predict purchase
intent, sales lift or the likelihood
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of content to go viral. The next component
of IDR's framework is data. Business data
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is often locked in legacy on-site platforms
that are siloed, making it difficult if not
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impossible for employees to get different
types of data to work together. Creating
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a robust data foundation requires breaking
information out of traditional file silos.
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So this is what is required. So that it
can be unified, one, optimally stored,
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two and easily accessed three and readily
analyzed with new tools all in the cloud.
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With a solid data foundation, more data from
more sources managed with the help of AI and
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widely disseminated within an organization
can help in maximizing data potential. Now
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let us look at the case of McDonald's. In
2018 McDonald was facing a major challenge.
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Its competitors have used online delivery to
leapfrog its lock on the fast-food markets.
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So the competitor were given online delivery
using online delivery for the competitors were
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using online delivery. So, McDonald leaders
quickly devised an online delivery solution
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through a global partnership with Uber Eats
that by 2019 was adding dollar 4 billion
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to the annual sales. But top executives
knew that the company's long-term future
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depends on making a rapid and complete
transformation to become data driven. So,
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this kind of stopgap arrangement will not
last long and therefore something more
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needs to be done and that is a complete
transformation to become data driven.
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This required reconfiguring its restaurants
into enormous data processes complete with
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machine learning and mobile technology to support
highly customized customer orders and delivery.
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Data crunching also aids in calculating
how external factors from weather to big
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sporting events would impact demand and
restaurants ability to serve customers.
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So now you see that we are also looking
at the effect of external factors like
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the change in weather or a big sporting
event and then predicting and forecasting
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the restaurants’ ability to serve the
customer. And gathering and processing
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data were important for developing new
products and initiatives that could be
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immediately successful. Now implications of using
data driven approach is first is the financial
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success. Within two years the transformation
effort successfully achieved financial results.
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Few companies in the S&P 500 have outperformed
McDonald creating a modern data foundation. So,
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mastering the use of big and small data
to generate value from AI requires that
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organization lay a solid foundation and for that
three capabilities are key. First is modern data
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engineering, second is AI assisted data governance
and the third is data democratization. So,
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in modern data foundation data comes from a
variety of internal and external sources through a
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number of organisms including batch and real time
processing and APIs. It get stitched together into
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highly curated and reusable data sets that can
be consumed for a variety of analytic purposes.
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A good foundation relies on reusable frameworks
for data ingestion and ETL that is extract,
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transform and load that support diverse data
types. These frameworks also handle rules of
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data quality and standardization so that
new data pipelines for analytic use cases
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and data products can be developed quickly and at
scale on the cloud. AI assisted data governance,
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cloud-based AI tools offer the
advanced capabilities and scale
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to help automatically. Cleans, classify and
secure data gathered on the cloud as it is
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ingested which supports better quality
data veracity and ethical handling.
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Data democratization. A modern data foundation
gets more data into more hands. It makes data
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accessible and easy to use in a timely manner
while enabling multiple ways to consume data
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including self-service, AI, business intelligence
and data science. The latest cloud-based tools
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democratize data and empower more people across
the enterprise to easily find and leverage data
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that is relevant to their specific business needs
faster, create a modern data foundation. Together
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these three capabilities help companies overcome
some of the most common barriers to value.
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Data accessibility, data trustworthiness, data
readiness and data timeliness. So, these are
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the four things. They enable companies to blend
data from big and small data sets together in
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real time, build agile reporting and leverage AI
to create broadly accessible customers, markets
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and operational insights that deliver meaningful
business outcomes. In order to conclude, we have
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discussed the intelligence and data landscapes of
IDEA’s framework. There are many shortcomings of
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deep learning-based AI. Machine intelligence is
now being augmented with human intelligence and
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human have superior cognitive intelligence
and machines excels in pattern recognition.
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We have also studied the implementation
of smart robot augmented with human
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intelligence at Obeta helped them to increase
reliability and speed. Three key capabilities
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are required to build a modern-day data
foundation. One is modern data engineering,
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AI assisted data governance and the third
is data democratization. These are the five
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books from which the material for
this module was taken. Thank you.