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By rolling out a device equipped with more advanced facial recognition technology, users can enjoy an even more convenient method of paying for goods and services without using smartphones. The Frog Pro features a 10.1-inch double-sided screen, a 3D depth-sensing camera for the facial recognition payment function and a QR code scanner 
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US corporates are currently using facial recognition for everything from fast food orders to trying on makeup to issuing life insurance policies, and more.
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WHY IT MATTER: facial recognition used to be a very difficult thing to do but AI and machine learning specifically has blown this out the water opening the way for a slew of real world useful applications.Â
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The graphs below show Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML) mentions in company earnings calls, by industry. The graph shows Artificial intelligence mentions by industries other than IT. Big data and Cloud mentions are added to put AI / ML mentions in perspective. This analysis uses only companies publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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WHY IT MATTERS: digital technology is something that executives at the highest level must master. The AI report shows how often certain words are uttered in earnings calls of public corporations and it shows what is trendy: AI and machine learning. Big data and cloud are not. What does this mean: if you are not deploying actively big data and cloud solutions, you re behind. If you are not piloting AI or ML projects, then your investors will see you are behind the times and missing out.
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You’re surrounded by disruption and rapid change. Maybe you’re looking for solutions. A way to seize opportunities. We all are. It’s a sprint to stay ahead of technology. Blockchain. Automation. AI. Cybersecurity. It will forever change the way accounting is done. And forever change those who do it. It’s time to reset, redefine and reskill. The way we learn. The way we work. And the way we move forward. Here, you’ll find what you need to not just survive, but adapt and thrive. And disrupt disruption.
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WHY IT MATTERS: I've been blogging about digital disruption since Jan 2013, and doing it since the early days of Internet in 1995. It is refreshing to see it being picked up by non technology professionals. Maybe a sign of the times that this thing is starting to really impact people, businesses and whole industries...?
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By next year, around 75% of financial firms will either explore or implement artificial intelligence technologies, according to a survey by Greenwich Associates. The research and consulting firm thinks some 15% of the industry’s jobs are at risk.
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WHY IT MATTERS: social turmoil in the coming years. Trump has capitalized on coal workers fears of loosing their jobs. In 5 and 10 years, millions of workers in Finance, accounting, clerical jobs, but also truck drivers and warehouse workers will be out of a job - or fearing they will loose their jobs or seeing their salaries frozen or wages pressured in downward trends. They will be asked to retrain and maybe re-locate. Most won't and will expect their unions or their governments to do something against the business world and rich techies. We must - sadly - plan for social turmoil in the coming years.
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Cognitive technologies are transforming capital markets. Once the preserve of IT experts, they are now moving to center stage—offering enhanced speed, accuracy, and efficiency, and creating 20 to 30 percent in additional capacity, as employees in areas such as post-trade processing are freed from automatable tasks to focus on higher-value activities. The challenge for market participants, facing an array of solutions, is to implement at scale and capture the maximum value at the lowest possible risk.
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WHY IT MATTERS AI is entering the financial industry in droves and as this article from McKinsey shows, using digital technology may become essential to survive for many organizations.
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The robots are coming for Wall Street's jobs, and McKinsey & Co has an idea of exactly what jobs they are coming for.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT AI will impact the jobs market in all industries, including banking, Finance, legal, and accounting. As highlighted here, it may help focus humans on higher value activities but may - will? - also lead to job cuts. High paying job cuts. Watch out for possible human anger against the machines in the coming years.
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HighRadius' solution uses AI, machine learning, and optical character recognition to identify a payer, match them to an uncontextualized payment, and match that to an open receivable. Moreover, it gives companies the option of sending an automatic prompt to customers whose debts are outstanding. By leveraging this solution, BAML aims to reduce costs for its large business clients.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT AI is moving into back office operations in a big way, replace "traditional" human activities, reducing costs and improving performance. AI is being applied to receivables, credit scoring, customer service, compliance, trading and many other activities.
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ARK Invest aims to identify large-scale investment opportunities resulting from technological change. We believe innovation is key to growth. From a broad spectrum of disruptive innovations, Big Ideas represents our annual breakout of technologies that we believe will accelerate significantly in the months ahead.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Investment firms tend to be very traditional in their approach. This one appears to be embracing the digital transformation and making very insightful research that - from what they claim - guides their investments. Great idea. Now we'll see if their assumptions prove right and generate more returns than other investment guidance. I have a feeling it will.
Topics covered: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, automation, autonomous taxis, autonomous vehicles, bitcoin, blockchain, CRISPR, cryptocurrency, deep learning, dna sequencing, fintech, genomics, machine learning, mobile, robotics, shared autonomous vehicles
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The most anticipated slide deck of the year is here. Key takeaways:
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT This is an annual bag of goodies. Highlight #1: retail stores are closing at record pace while Amazon opens stores. This is such a huge trend because it transforms stores from a mini-warehouse into something else: a destination for experience, service, and training. Think Apple store with the highest sales per square foot, genius bar, classes and a showroom. Amazon has pushed its Amazon GO, no lines, no registers concept and it is rolling it out slowly. This is just the beginning...
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HTM for Stocks monitors financial and social data (specifically stock price, stock volume and Twitter volume) for a couple hundred stocks and alerts you in real-time when a significant anomaly is occurring.
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Describes an artificial intelligence solution that monitors stock market and raises notifications when things are different than the predicted behaviour of the stock.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Our brain is a massive prediction engine, based on the work that Jeff Hawkins has presented in his book On Intelligence http://amzn.to/2caWZuk
Applications from this brain architecture theory have started to emerge with this stock market prediction being one of them.
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WHY IT MATTERS: this is the obvious killer app for facial recognition - it uses AI technology and similar hardware that iPhone uses to unlock your screen. You can now spend without any friction, not event the need to take your phone out of your pocket. Of course this raises obvious privacy and security concerns - but in China the concept of privacy appears different than in the West. But the most important factor is that Asia is deploying this *at scale* first, waaaaaaayyyy before the USA where you still have to sign paper slips for credit card transactions... Who is leading the techno war these days?