siliconindia | | June 20208The Avatars of Artificial IntelligenceACT 1: Soft AI There was an experiment held at San Francisco recently by OpenAI where an AI agent was interviewed by a human. This is not something new, for example, Disney Parks had such technology "cool stuff" way back in 2005 at their To-kyo theme park. 15 years back, those were novelties, and people perhaps did not understood much of its implications then, vis-à-vis the way that is experienced now. The name of the AI Agent was GPT-2, trained on a 40 gigabytes of text from the internet on an unsupervised language model. Here are some of its (unedited) ¬answers to our questions on the big themes of 2020.Q: Which technologies are worth watching in 2020?A: I would say it is hard to narrow down the list. The world is full of disruptive technologies with real and potentially huge global impacts. The most important is artificial intel-ligence, which is becoming exponentially more powerful. There is also the development of self-driving cars. There is a lot that we can do with artificial intelligence to improve the world.Q: What is the future of AI?A: It would be good if we used the technology more re-sponsibly. In other words, we should treat it like a utility, like a tool. We should put as much effort into developing the technology as necessary, rather than worrying that it's going to harm us and destroy our lives.Q: How worried do you think we humans should be that machines will take our jobs?A: It depends what role machine intelligence will play. Ma-chine intelligence in some cases will be useful for solving problems, such as translation. But in other cases, such as in finance or medicine, it will replace people.Q: Thank you very much for talking to us.A: You are welcome.ACT 2: Mixed Reality AI In July 2019, Julia White, the CVP of Azure Marketing, unveiled this technology in a demonstration at the Micro-soft Inspire 2019 Conference, which discussed in detail the company's vision for the coming year. The Azure AI hologram simply creates a digital avatar of person and lets them speak in the speaker's voice in another language. Technologies like Azure AI and neural text-to-speech were used to make this possible. To get the speaker's voice and intonation right, multiple recordings of the speaker's voice were used to make a personalized voice signature. This is how the technology was able to translate the entire speech from English to Japanese, in her voice!A life-size hologram of a person, the translation of speech from one language to another and rendering it in the person's voice - these are the essential features that make this mixed reality technology undeniably game-changing! This is nearest to "Teleporting", as depicted in science fic-tion stories. But then, huge inroads are being made by this technology in the areas of Healthcare, Disaster Relief, Law enforcements etc.ACT 3: Hard AIIn 2009, Google started its project on Self Driving Cars, or autonomous vehicles, later named as Waymo owned by Google's parent Alphabet. In 2015, Google provided "the world's first fully driverless ride on public roads" to a blind friend of principal engineer Nathaniel Fairfield. The ride was taken by Steve Mahan, former CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center, Austin TX. It was the first driverless ride that was on a public road and was not accompanied by a test driver or police escort. The car had no steering wheel or floor pedals. Abhijit holds PhD degree in Customer Experience Management and he enjoys teaching and research. He has served in renowned companies and also has teaching experience in NIFT.By Abhijit Dasgupta, Director ­ BDVA & BDS, SP Jain School of Global ManagementHOW DATA ANALYTICS HELP IDENTIFY PATTERNS AND TRENDS FROM VARIOUS SECTORS LIKE MANUFACTURING, BANKING,FINANCE, RETAIL AND HEALTHCAREIN MY OPINION
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