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In recent months, concerns about the economic impact of the pandemic have been closely tied with a spate of panickedautomation headlines like,Will Robots Take Our Jobs In A Socially Distanced Era??.

But theres a different reality that showcases the importance of having a robust digital transformation strategy.

Already we have seen that incorporating new technologies has led to a dramatic shift in the way industries operate worldwide. We are also witnessing a significant rise in interest for robotic process automation (RPA), intelligent automation and artificial intelligence among business leaders who realize that intelligent automation demonstrates strong transformative potential across all industries.

Business leaders are accelerating the adoption of technologies they view as crucial to digital transformation efforts like intelligent and robotic process automation to help them thrive in this tumultuous business environment and beyond.

Businesses are constantly met with new restrictions and 63% of business decision makers feel they are struggling to meet customer demands. 93% of those decision makers believe intelligent automation will help solve this problem.

Intelligent automation offers a number of key benefits, from time and money savings to improved efficiency. By implementing all capabilities found in RPA and connecting previously silo'ed departments and improving communication, intelligent automation can help businesses focus on more strategic work.

For example: One Michigan-based power company serving 2.2 million customers is using a digital workforce to halve the number of bills that need to be reviewed by human workers. By automating this process, and 35 others,the company is saving 250,000 man hours annually.

Related:How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping the Insurance Industry

Business leaders are looking to intelligent automation to help reap the benefits of a lighter workload and reduced financial burden. In fact, at the start of 2020, 92% of business leaders already had plans to roll out intelligent automation across their organizations this number will only go up as we continue to experience the lasting impact of thepandemic.

Many companies have been building an automation-ready business culture and knowledge workers are ready to embrace their digital coworkers. Only 33% of employees still harbor fears about losing their jobs to automation and 81% have a strong understanding of the benefits intelligent automation can bring to their organizations. Overall, the past year has prepared leaders, and employees alike, to welcome technology that will make for a more agile and efficient hybrid workforce.

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The past year has proved that our workforce is resilient, flexible and capable of adjusting to many challenges. As businesses around the globe embrace new work environments and technologies, weve seen a growing level of trust in automation as employees adapt to digital colleagues. They are excited about the opportunities intelligent automation creates, embracing benefits that allow them to focus more on creative, meaningful work. Businesses that provide employees with training and reassurance as these digital workers are introduced enable the smoothest transition.

As the financial strain of the pandemic continues, investment management firms are applying intelligent automation to end-to-end processes for loan applications, getting funds to those in need as quickly as possible. Healthcare organizations are automating the patient diagnostic process, reducing clinical risk by ensuring the process is fast and accurate.

As organizations in industries like healthcare and financial services introduce intelligent automation, they help their workforce adapt and upskill by retraining employees. In fact, 78% of organizations provide training opportunities when they introduce new technologies. Further80% of knowledge workers feel comfortable reskilling, indicating a willingness to adapt alongside digital colleagues.

What could the future holdwith digital workers operating alongside human workers? Todays intelligent automation is more sophisticated than ever and does not require the level of manual governance it once did. Businesses can train digital workers to do almost anything (paymentprocessing, monitoring data integrity, management, etc.) freeing human workers to engage in more exciting roles.

Blue Prism intelligent digital workers are designed to be more accessible and intuitive to non-tech business users. By offering a no-code automation tool, business teams are empowered with agile operational automation capabilities. This vastly expands access and utilization of both in-house and third party technologies, allowing for business processes to become more easily repeatable, secure, auditable and scalable -- ultimately resulting in higher customer satisfaction rates.

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"As a leader in Japanese beauty, we pride ourselves on offering our customers a meaningful, innovative and highly personalized approach to beauty. We are thrilled to be working with Perfect Corp. to integrate this platform into the consumer's discovery of Japanese skincareon Decorte.com and to ensure we deliver a high-touch experience that addresses key skincare concerns," says Sharon del Valle, GM KOS America. "Millions of customers around the world turn to the brand as a destination for their skincare solutions, and most especially for hydration. For the first time, we are able to easily demonstrate to consumers their hydration needs and then quickly link to solutions that best fit their needs such as our bestselling Moisture Liposome Serum with its groundbreaking proprietary technology for hydration. The combination of Perfect Corp.'s platform with our products allows us to connect with the consumer in a seamless way to help them achieve the radiant, smooth, glowing skin that the Japanese are known for."

"We are thrilled to partner with Decort to integrate our most advanced AI-powered skin diagnostic technology for web with tracking for hydration and other key skin health concerns," said Perfect Corp. Founder and CEO, Alice Chang. "It's an honor to partner with such a forward-thinking and innovative skincare brand like Decort and help guide beauty consumers on their skin health journey with the help of YouCam's beauty tech."

Decort will also offer customers YouCam's award-winning beauty try-on technology on the brand website and leverage Perfect Corp.'s artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) innovation. The virtual try-on will help the brand enrich the online experience, increase consumer engagement and allow the North American consumer to discover Decort, Japan's best kept beauty secret.

About DecortEstablished in 1970, Decort is Japan's best-kept beauty secret and beloved by millions of women in Asia. The brand embodies the best of Japanese beauty, and its mission has always been to provide the highest quality skincare and makeup products with unique textures for maximum effectiveness. Decort, has partnered with world-renown universities and acclaimed scientists for decades to deliver products that truly exceed the expectations of each customer.

About KOS CorporationKOSE Corporation was founded in Japan in 1946 by Kozaburo Kobayashi with a vision and passion to provide people during the post-war period with hope and dreams. KOSE continues the legacy of its founder with a commitment to consumers around the world of creating quality skincare, makeup, fragrance, hair care and body care products that exceed expectations. With research and innovation at its core, KOSE has over 800 registered patents. Today, the company's products are sold in over 34 countries and territories with a portfolio of 38 brands that include Decorte, Sekkisei, Addiction, Tarte, Jill Stuart Beauty, Stephen Knoll New York, and Awake. KOSE brands sell in multiple channels including department stores, specialty stores, drug stores and direct.

About Perfect Corp.With over 900 Million downloads globally, Perfect Corporation is dedicated to transforming how consumers, content creators and beauty brands interact together through AI and AR technologies. Our experienced team of engineers and beauty aficionados are pushing the frontiers of technology to create the beauty platform of the future a fluid environment where individuals express themselves, learn the latest about fashion and beauty, and enjoy instant access to the products from their favorite brands. Further information about Perfect Corp. can be found atperfectcorp.comandLinkedIn.

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Privacy restrictions are pushing many marketer toward the use of artificial intelligence in order to ... [+] delive more targeted messages.

The trend toward greater focus on privacy issues has been going on for some time and is starting to come to a head.More restrictions on the sharing and merging of data on individuals has been leading to advertisers to look for effective ways to target and reach consumers, including using the use of behavioral targeting supplemented by the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

At a time when privacy regulations are sometimes fragmented and confusing but changing, it is critically important for marketers to monitor changes in the regulatory environment.Against this backdrop, I interviewed Sheri Bachstein, IBM's Global Head of Watson Advertising to get her insights and predictions on the future of privacy regulation and how it will affect advertisers, particularly as regards the use of AI and came away with three major takeaways:

1)The need for standard federal regulation of data privacy in the U.S. is pressing.

The European Unions General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act are already leading to the devaluation of traditional third-party cookies and the way many advertisers do business.Yet, the lack of uniform regulation creates a significant gray area for companies who want to scale and use AI in targeting, creating problems for technology companies and marketers.

Sheri Bachstein, Global Head of IBM's Watson Advertising

Bachstein believes that federal legislation as opposed to a patchwork of state laws is needed in order to allow for standards that allow marketers to operate effectively while protecting consumer rights.Citing lack of agreement on what sensitive data means to different constituencies, she asserts:We feel that data privacy principles such as transparency, user choice, as well as overall accountability should be taken into greater consideration when designing policy that is consumer driven. When you talk about sensitive data that is a great example of why we need industry standards. We all need to have the same definitions for types of data so that industry players work with clearly defined terms that are consistent across the U.S.

Bachstein also notes that industry needs to unite behind a standard playbook and the effort to get federal regulation should be include an array of industry partners, councils, and big tech companies collaborating with lawmakers in order to incorporate multiple viewpoints and ensure that the legislation is effective across the entire ecosystem.

2)Artificial intelligence is part of the solution to balancing privacy with the consumers right to choose; Unified IDs alone are not likely to be enough.

Even before the pandemic, there was growing consensus that users should have the ability to control their sensitive data and who they share it with. Moreover, there is emphasis in regulatory discussions on consumers knowing where their data is going and how it is used. At the same time, most consumers prefer to have personalized experiences online, including when they receive advertising in the digital context.Old style spray and pray ads have little utility for either marketers or consumers. As such, an alternative targeting solution that does not use data the consumers believe to be sensitive is needed.

Because of its ability to narrowly target messages based on behavioral online data (in some cases combined with consumer approved data that is less sensitive) artificial intelligence has the potential to help get advertising messages that the consumer wants to see, or, at least, does not find invasive.It is also the case that the use of AI combined with informing consumers on how data is used can help lead to a situation where consumers understand that marketers are using data for positive purposes.

A key to the promise of AI in advertising, says Bachstein, is its ability to use data to predict future behaviors without relying on consumer-level data.AI is a great path forward in this era of privacy because it can work with data to predict future behaviors, while simultaneously delivering valuable insights, she states, This allows publishers such as IBMs The Weather Channel, to create relationships with their consumers without the need to know specifically who the consumer is.

While some have suggested unified ID programs such as the The Trade Desks Unified ID 2.0, which is a pool of industry collaborators who seek to create to new, standardized ways of collecting user data without using third-party cookies, instead relying on audience data collected directly from the publisher, Bachstein does not see it as being able to replace what was available via third-party cookies.While we welcome industry collaboration and view this solution as progress, its important to note that there will be challenges that are dependent on which path the big tech companies will pursue, she says, Unified IDs may offer a partial fix, but we could ultimately run into the same privacy constraints moving ahead. While Unified IDs are a step in the right direction, the solution alone isnt enough to replace what marketers will lose when third-party cookies are phased out and mobile identifiers are changed to opt-in.

3)The use of artificial intelligence is poised to grow, lead to additional innovation, and drive the future of digital advertising.

Bachstein and IBM Watson estimate that only 25% of global companies understand the true value of AI but that this will grow as marketers realize its value. In addition, consumers have not historically understood the benefits of AI and in part due to its futuristic image are nervous about how its application affects their everyday lives.IBM Watson believe the onus is on industry to explain the benefits in a delicate way to get across that AI will be a force for good.

As cookies have the drawback of only tracking the past, AIs nature of being rooted in the future and leveraging data can deliver important insights without the publisher (e.g., IBMs The Weather Channel) needing to know who specifically the consumer is.Bachsteinsummarizes the situation regarding adoption as follows, As with any new technology, the pace of adoption and the consumers level of comfortability is ultimately tied directly to the education and experimentation of the technology itself. While there has not been a true resistance to AI today it is not widely used across the digital advertising ecosystem. Adoption will take time for some, while others will see the benefits immediately. We need to ensure that AI is no longer perceived as a buzzword, but rather a tangible solution that can deliver real outcomes while keeping consumer privacy intact.

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It is undeniable that the technology industry has seen a wide variety of innovations over the years. The use of artificial intelligence at any level has proved to be fantastic. It automated a significant number of workers, reducing human effort and has led everyone to believe that there is even more to come.

As per report of Artificial Solutions, Recent results from a large survey of machine learning researchers predict AI will outperform humans in many activities in the next ten years, such as translating languages (by 2024) all the way to working as a surgeon (by 2053). Researchers also believe there is a 50% chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks in 45 years and of automating all human jobs in 120 years.

Nearly every aspect of our lives is being affected by artificial intelligence machines in order to boost profitability and enhance our human capabilities. AI has become so ingrained in our everyday lives that its difficult to comprehend life without it.

As a result, we will be eternally grateful to those who were the driving force behind this incredible technology and who have contributed to making computer science even more human-like and efficient.

After playing a significant role in defining the area devoted to the creation of intelligent machines, John McCarthy, an American computer scientist pioneer and inventor, was called the Father of Artificial Intelligence. In his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference, the first artificial intelligence conference, the cognitive scientist coined the term. The intention was to see if there was a way to create a machine that could think abstractly, solve problems, and develop itself like a human. Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can, in principle, be described so precisely that a machine can be made to simulate it, he claimed.

Programming languages, the Internet, the web, and robots are just a few of the worlds technological innovations that John paved the way for. He coined the term Artificial Intelligence, invented the first programming language for symbolic computation, LISP (which is still used as a preferred language in the field of AI), and invented and established time-sharing. Human-level AI and commonsense reasoning were two of his major contributions.

According to Britannica, McCarthy received (1951) a doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University, where he briefly taught. He also held professorships at Dartmouth College (195558), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (195862), and Stanford University (195355 and 19622000).

His efforts in the field of artificial intelligence have been immaculate throughout his career. McCarthys contributions were widely recognized and he received numerous awards. He has won a number of prestigious awards, including:

In 1971, he received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

In 1988, the Kyoto Prize was awarded.

In 1990, he was awarded the National Medal of Science in Statistical, Computational Sciences, and Mathematics by the United States of America.

In 2003, the Franklin Institute awarded him the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Cognitive Science and Computers.

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Application deadline: April 30, 2021.

The application material consists of a CV, a two-page summary of research plans and a one-page teaching statement, along with the contact information for three referees. The application should be emailed to Sophie Grimard (sgrimard@uottawa.ca), secretary to the Chair Prof. James Harden, by April 30, 2021.

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