The use of artificial intelligence
The digital mind has ceased to be something fantastic and futuristic. There are more and more areas in which the use of artificial intelligence is carried out. Industry, transport, mining, banking and e-commerce are just a few of the areas where AI is already being used effectively.
1. Yandex [consumer Internet services]
Yandex is the most recognizable Russian brand related to innovation. This company is engaged in machine learning, neural networks and artificial intelligence to cope with the amount of information that it receives and produces daily..
To one degree or another, AI is used in every Yandex project:
• Yandex.Translator, thanks to the neural network, translates texts taking into account the context. He considers the source code in full, and not in parts, so he selects synonyms more precisely and draws up sentences.
• “Alice” is a voice assistant who independently learns and adapts to a person. Alice takes into account her past answers and thereby gains experience. The developers claim that she understands 89-95% of human speech. For people, it is considered the norm of 96-98%. 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, as the company wrote in its blog). Meteum’s unique technology utilizes machine learning and classic weather models to predict weather accurate to the area and home.
• Yandex. Traffic jams collect data from users’ devices, analyze and then predict the traffic situation, make up optimal routes for trips.
• The Korolev algorithm 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 stock forecasting, risk assessment, and development strategy planning. To increase the accuracy of the analysis, the Cognitive Geologist not only uses the source geological information and exploration data, but also self-learns. He accumulates experience, analyzes it and eliminates shortcomings.
Artificial intelligence helps Gazprom Neft to avoid blunders in the early stages of production, which are almost impossible to fix in the future.
3. ABBYY [Linguistics and Data Mining]
This Russian company implements the use of artificial intelligence in several areas:
• Adaptive Document Recognition technology recognizes page layout, separates text from non-text content, determines the role of elements such as footers and checks the logical structure.
• The Tochka Bank uses ABBYY smart solutions to support customers. The system automatically arranges request tags by processing a call or chat.
• Artificial intelligence from ABBYY allows VTB Bank to serve 25% more customers from small and medium-sized businesses. The algorithm segments documents, checks their composition, compares the data of applications, statements and references.
• Compero – a unique technology for understanding natural language texts. The algorithm analyzes semantics and syntax, extracts events, the relationships between them and recognizes the meaning of the text.
4. Vision Labs [banking]
This startup makes face recognition technology for business customers. Products are focused on security systems, video surveillance, banks, the financial sector and retail. The company itself claims that their system processes images 200 times faster than competitor designs. According to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), this is one of the three best commercial facial recognition 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 developers of computer vision systems was launched together with Google and Facebook.
5. Home App [Real Estate]
Russian mathematician Alexei Igoshin has developed and implemented the use of artificial intelligence, which helps to evaluate 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 the issuance;
• analyzes the history of apartment prices in a specific 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 – find good real estate at the best price, sellers – faster to complete a transaction, but not to cheapen. The effectiveness of the system increases due to the fact that as a result of the analysis the target group of customers is determined. She receives offers through targeted advertising on sites, on social networks and on the ad sites themselves..
6. Rostelecom [staff recruitment]
In 2017, Rostelecom began to recruit staff to work using artificial intelligence. The system analyzes profiles of applicants for specific posts 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 on a specific position for at least 6 months.
At first, Rostelecom used technology to select operators for call centers. In this direction, the company has a large staff turnover. Machine selection of candidates helped significantly reduce the cost of interviews, registration and dismissal of employees. JungleJobs (the creator of the system) reported that so the budget for the search and hiring of staff decreased by 1.5-2 times.
7. Avito [online classifieds]
One of the main ad sites in Russia uses artificial intelligence to provide accurate recommendations on pages, improve search results and remove fake applications. In the mobile application of the service there is a function “Search by photo”. The system uses computer vision, selecting products with the most similar image from the database.
8. Tesla [Automotive]
This electric vehicle manufacturer designs and implements artificial intelligence for driving 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. Tesla previously used Nvidia Drive, equipment that was less efficient (200 fps).
Elon Mask’s predictions are fantastic. Billionaire says that in 10 years, artificial intelligence will surpass man in safety and reliability of driving a car.
9. Amazon.com [e-commerce]
Amazon is one of the pioneers in introducing artificial intelligence into real life. The company used AI to select candidates for work back in 2014. The next year, the neural network was “fired” when it turned out that it preferred men. It is noteworthy that this is not a mistake of designers, but a feature acquired through self-training. The system analyzed the resumes of people hired over the past 10 years, and there were simply more men in this collection.
This example says that AI is really capable of simplifying some tasks. The main thing is to use it correctly, regularly check and timely adjust.
Here are a few more Amazon related AI projects:
• Kiva. Amazon bought a company-manufacturer of warehouse robots for $ 775 million and began to produce them for themselves. Kiva reduces transportation time and helps companies to store 50% more goods in warehouses. So, they reduced operating expenses by 20%. It is planned to introduce robots in the stages of sorting and packaging.
• Alexa. This is an intelligent voice assistant from Amazon. Now it is available on iOS, in the Lexi application and in the browser interface. The functionality of the system is limited to information about news, weather and online purchases, but it will obviously be improved. For example, Amazon developers are working on an algorithm that recognizes not only text, but also its emotional coloring..
• In Berlin and New York, there are company research groups that analyze big data using artificial intelligence. The technology is aimed at predicting the price of products and the search for market patterns. Amazon Germany Development Center Managing Director says this software provides a scenario for customer behavior in the coming seconds and weeks.
Jeff Bezos makes a big bet on AI. Now in his business empire employs more than 100 engineers, designers and scientists creating “smart” cars.
10. Netflix [entertainment services]
The largest and one of the most successful streaming services uses artificial intelligence to recommend the most interesting series and films to users. The system is based on the history of the person’s views, as well as on the habits of other people (the audience is segmented by age, geography, habits and expenses).
Netflix partly communicates with AI more freely and non-traditionally. So, in 2016, a short film created specifically for AI appeared in the catalog of films. The film is made to test the codecs that are used to encrypt and decrypt the video stream. They also check the quality of broadcasting in 4K.
Another company project is “The Other Side of the Wind”. This is a film by Orson Welles, shot in the 1970s, but did not go through all the stages of editing during the life of the director. An AI-based system did the editing already today, and, according to the developers, significantly improved image quality (up to 4K).
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