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Key Takeaways
• Understanding the debate about the impacts of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is good but your organization is more likely to intersect AI in a narrow application. Understand the role that the volume and quality of data will play in your implementation. Be clear about responsibilities and obligations of data stewardship.
• Introduction of AI is enabling the successful achievement of corporate objectives. Consider AI as a driver or amplifier of existing risks already on your radar.
• Change is inevitable. Your career will change, and you need to participate in that evolution. Opportunities exist for those who can apply the principles of continuous learning
How pricing insurance for cars of future could bring Insurers, Carmakers together
On Jan. 30, Peate announced the creation of Avinew, with $5 million in seed funding led by Los Angeles’ Crosscut Ventures. Its insurance product will monitor drivers’ use of autonomous features on cars made by companies including Tesla, Nissan, Ford and Cadillac, determining discounts based on how the feature is used. Avinew has agreements with most manufacturers, and is working to tie up the rest, Peate said, allowing it to access driving data once a customer gives it permission.
NPCI identifies new type of digital banking frauds
The entire ecosystem including Banks & Fintech companies have to work collectively towards creating awareness and educating customers to refrain from sharing their account/card credentials, OTP/PIN and/or giving access to their mobile handsets to unscrupulous persons through such remote screen access apps.
How tech giants are safeguarding global data centres from cyber attacks
“While physical security is given utmost importance at data centres, it is critical for organisations to beef up their cybersecurity posture through regular vulnerability assessments and penetration testing to check their readiness to tackle cyber threats,” Sanjay Katkar, Joint Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer, Quick Heal Technologies Limited, told IANS.
AI to tackle UK insurance fraud and assess flood damage
The project is one of 40 backed by £13 million in Government investment to support collaborative industry and research projects to develop the next-generation of professional services.
Shortage of skilled IT workforce looms over India: Nasscom
The demand-supply gap for skills affected the industry’s performance in 2018, due to shortage of 140,000 skilled techies for 500,000 jobs in the industry across verticals. “Going forward, the industry will face a shortage of 230,000 skilled techies as jobs in AI and Big Data are estimated to be 780,000 by 2021.”
Self-driving cars ‘learn’ to predict pedestrian movement
Equipping vehicles with the necessary predictive power requires the network to dive into the minutiae of human movement: the pace of a human’s gait (periodicity), the mirror symmetry of limbs, and the way in which foot placement affects stability during walking
Google, Amazon expanding smart home device data gathering
The commercial success of voice assistants has bolstered dozens of companies working to build interest in internet-enabled televisions, kitchen appliances and other devices. Many people first start tinkering with connected appliances after buying a smart speaker. Surveys show about a quarter of U.S. smart speaker owners regularly use them to control something else, a percentage analysts expect to rise.
Insuring The Sharing Economy
As traditional ways of doing business become more fluid, new risks and uncertainties are emerging. In particular, many sharing economy companies currently assert that whatever happens in the course of a peer-to-peer transaction is between the participants and all they are doing is supplying the platform.
`Regulatory Sanbox: IRDAI Irdai to allow testing of products before launch
The applicant can apply in any one of more of the five categories namely insurance solicitation or distribution, insurance products, underwriting, policy and claims servicing and any other. The applicant could apply singly or jointly in one or more than one category, provided that if the category involves insurance product or underwriting, then the applicant necessarily has to partner with an insurer.