AI’s Bumpy Road to Fruition

Areas where artificial intelligence has begun to show returns are industrial automation (smart factories), decision support in medical diagnosis, new drug formulations (e.g., COVID medications), and automating business processes such as fraud detection and intervention in financial transactions.

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CIOs’ Top Priorities For 2022 Include Monitoring The Metaverse, Advancing AI And Securing Tech Supply Chains

Like Arumugavelu, who says he and his C-suite colleagues will be using insights gleaned from these and other technologies to keep improving how Verizon serves customers, plenty of other CIOs will be focused on finding new, digital ways to enhance products and services.

“In any early [tech] disruption, the only way to make something real is with simple use cases,” says Chandrasekaran, whose team is looking into using virtual reality to help in nurse training and certification, with a goal of producing a prototype experience within a few months.

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Chase CIO Gill Haus Discusses Recruitment, Agile, and Automation

We’ve made a large move to be an agile organization to organize around our products versus organizing around our businesses. The reason for that is we need to be able to build solutions quickly and those local teams — the product, technology, data, and design leaders — they’re more able to see what’s happening in the market, make decisions quickly, decide what to build or what service to provide, and make sure we’re applying that for our customer versus being organized in a way that makes it more difficult to operate.

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How Machine Learning Observability Helps America First Credit Union Stay A Step Ahead

Last month, we hosted an event on “Best Practices in ML Observability for Lending & Insurance” that featured a fireside chat with America First Credit Union’s Data Science Manager Richard Woolston. 

In the wide-ranging interview, Woolston shared his thoughts on the use of AI in the financial services industry and how his team approaches model monitoring and ML observability. Here are some of the more pointed questions from that session, and Woolston’s takeaways.

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Five Retail Shifts That Could Shape The Future

For retailers, 2022 holds both promises and challenges. It could be a banner year for shopping, with e-commerce poised for its first trillion-dollar year, according to estimates from Adobe. But before brands and retailers can take advantage of pent-up shopping demand, they must navigate a few hurdles, including supply chain issues, staffing shortages and the pandemic’s unpredictable trajectory. Beyond these immediate challenges, retailers must consider new consumer patterns and expectations, the point and purpose of the retail space moving forward and the growing role of technology innovation in their business strategy.

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