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By Dr. Sahil Gupta

At its core, artificial intelligence (AI) is a partnership between man and machine (Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO). The embodiment of AI is a computer program that can learn to execute tasks involving forms of intelligence normally ascribed to humans. How well a computer will be able to emulate or exceed humans is the essential question driving AI technology.

The potential introduction of AI into the clinical ART world holds both tremendous benefits of high success rates as well as lower costs. The current use of AI to separate high- quality embryos from those that are chromosomally abnormal is expected to save healthcare professionals time and effort by processing and interpreting more data with greater depth and precision. This might, in turn, improve the efficiency of ART and subsequent pregnancy outcomes, treatment options and care for patients with infertility.

The present Infertility lab hasnt changed since the invention of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) in the late 1980s. There have been some improvements in technology over the last few decades specially in Vitrification, but the current processes have a large amount of subjectivity built into them, thus there is an enormous amount of variance between different experts that that lead to large amounts of inconsistency in results.

A lot of tools are being developed around the world to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict embryo quality. These are extremely helpful in increasing the success rate per embryo transfer. However, the variability and subjectivity could be in the following steps: ovarian stimulation protocols and dosing, the mechanical steps during egg retrieval and oocyte preparation for fertilization, the mechanics of sperm preparation, the variations in technique for sperm injection (ICSI), culturing, embryo manipulation and biopsy, embryo selection, and finally the embryo transfer, and its difficult to pinpoint failures to any one of these steps.

The technology of IVF, four decades after the first IVF baby was born, is largely measured by a single outcome: live birth. Therefore, in order to make a big change in the success rates of the infertility treatments, a wholistic approach in automation is required in multiple steps (if not all the steps).

It is a given that the way forward for infertility is to use artificial intelligence and deep learning models to improve outcomes. However, collecting data in a disciplined and a consistent way remains a challenge. Today since almost everything is done manually by embryologists, high quality digital data is not collected. The infertility lab data has traditionally been pretty much black box for most clinic management. At Aveya, we have been collecting data in a consistent manner and that has allowed us to understand the process and given us a sense on how to move forward with different pieces of the technology that can lead to improvement of the final endpoint.

The article is authored by Dr. Sahil Gupta, founder and CEO, Aveya Fertility.

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By Rao Surapaneni, Vice President of Engineering and Head of India Product Operations, ServiceNow and Lisa Wolfe, Global Director Product Marketing, ServiceNow

Remember when cloud was just a buzzword? Ten years ago, many people thought that cloud technology was overhyped. Now, our future is in the Cloud everything we own digitally is backed up to the Cloud.

Theres a similar discussion about Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) today. Once again, some people are skeptical. However, I predict that AIOps is destined to follow cloud, with widespread adoption across industries. Organizations will quickly learn that theycantremain competitivewithout AIOps. Just like the Cloud, AIOps is going to evolve IT and digital business as we know it.

In India, tech convergence is the new reality for 2020. AI is being leveraged by every sector, in some way, to increase productivity and create efficiencies. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, AI has become vital for smooth workflow systems. With people observing social distancing across the globe, companies have had to create digital workflows that maintain, if not increase, productivity as people adjust to the new norm, for now.

What is AIOps?

AIOps optimizes IT operations using machine learning and big data. Thats the opposite of howmanyIT operationsdepartmentsworktoday, struggling with manual processes and heavily siloed tools that dont share data. Realizing the rising importance of AI, the Government of India in the Union Budget 2019-20 put AI high on its agenda. The Government has already identified nine priority areas and has been playing a pivotal role in augmenting the development of AI through various initiatives. In October 2019, the Government of Maharashtra announced the use of AI- based solutions for agriculture under the Maha Agri-Tech project to help reduce cultivation hazards for farmers.

Four reasons why AIOps is important for businesses

Enabled by the Cloud, businesses are digitizing at unprecedented speed. The pace and scale of change is staggering. And IT operations just cant keep up. Theres just too much complexity and too much to manage.WithSaaS apps and cloud services, business unitsarebypassingIT altogetherand this has been going on for years. AIOps changes this dynamic, ensuring that IT operations can run at digital speed and lead from the front.

With AIOps, your IT operations team dont have to dig through thousands of events from siloed monitoring tools, spending hours correlating disconnected data to identify impacted services and the root cause of failures. Instead, they immediately see a small number of actionable alerts and impacted services on a single console. They also see appropriatehistorical and real-time context, including relevant incidents, problems and changes for affected CIs (configuration items), providing valuable shortcuts to issue diagnosis and resolution. The more senior leadership backing there is for AIOps, the more mature an organizations digital processes will be. A push from the senior leadership will help AIOps process more data types for IT teams, leading to automation, giving free time to experts to focus on more complex decision-making that may not be achievable by AI.

They can also see how similar issues were remediated in the past and can even remediate issues automatically. Taken together, these AIOps capabilities significantly lower MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution),reduce the number of major incidents, and increase operational efficiency.

AIOps is ready for prime time. While the transformative promise of AI hasnt materialized yet for business, AIOps is different. It doesnt need a staff of data scientists or AI translators. It doesnt need a major reorganization like many other large-scale AI initiatives. In fact, AIOps is the perfect pilot for other organizational AI initiatives, building sponsorship beyond IT as it transforms IT operationswhich in turn transforms the business. Seamless adoption into IT operations and rapid productivity gains make AIOps a must-have technology for any CEO who is serious about digital transformation. This appreciation of what could be possible with AI looks set to transform into widespread usage of AIOps over the next few years.

What is the most important success factor when adopting AIOps?

It is aboutorganizational change management. Companies need to establish a data-driven culture where most decisions are based on data, not experience. Additionally, leaders need to startasking the right questions to drive efficiency. They also need to develop their existing talent or replace skillsets to manage the scale and demand.

Investment into AIOps can bring benefits from reduced downtime to a boost in profitability, creating a win-win for customers and companies alike. In an industry where change is the only constant, IT operations will need to become increasingly proactive and dynamic to meet the needs of business. AIOps offers you a proven, pragmatic path to improved service quality, reduced service downtime, and vastly increased operational efficiency. Ultimately, that translates into sustainable business advantage as yourun IT at digital speed.

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The Indian government yesterday stated the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Portal, formed by National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) and backed from National e-Governance Division of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), is now live.

The portals objective is to function as a one-stop platform for all AI-related advancements in India, with sharing of useful resources like articles, investment funding news for AI startup, AI companies and educational firms on AI in India. The portal will also distribute documents, case studies, research reports etc, and provide learning and new job roles related to AI.

The portal brings together ideas and thought leadership from Indian government stakeholders including Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), NITI Aayog, NASSCOM, along with state governments. Such government arms can finally interact with private players, including large tech companies, venture capital funds, startups and educational institutions on the portal to realise the potential of AI too.

The portal is meant to provide information on the entire AI ecosystem comprising startups, investment funds, companies, and educational institutions. This will be achieved with research work, editorial content such as news, interviews, and events. This will serve as an AI-focused platform for accessing AI resources.

The official domain name was announced as ai.gov.in. The domain name instead redirects to https://indiaai.in/ The website has sections on news, articles, ecosystem, resources, skills & jobs, sectors and initiatives. There are also subsections on case studies, research reports, video and datasets for AI professionals.

One of the most talked-about sections is regarding skills and jobs meant to help professionals learn and find work in the field of AI. For example, there are currently AI courses available on the platform, both free and paid for things like AI Foundation, Machine Learning, Data Visualization, cybersecurity, etc. This, according to the government officials, will help in upskilling and understanding of the technology at the core levels of the workforce.

These courses are mostly provided by either educational institutions such as IIT Bombay, third party content providers like SkillUp and edX or private companies like IBM. The other big learning initiatives mentioned on the portal include CBSEs partnership with chipmaker giant Intel. The AI education program is open to students in classes 8-12 across thousands of schools in India.

After the introduction of the National Strategy For AI Discussion paper, the Government of India had recognised nine priority areas, which led to the shift towards creating a national portal for AI. The industry professionals gave positive responses to find out the governments opening up the National Artificial Intelligence portal on social, which will bring forth the ecosystem and research and development measures in the field of artificial intelligence.

Now, the special website is focused on highlighting accomplishments of India in the field of AI and was inaugurated by Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Law and Justice and Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad on the occasion of the first anniversary of the second tenure of the government.

The focus is on democratising artificial intelligence for everyone. MoS for E&IT, Communications, and HRD, Sanjay Dhotre, while talking about the AI web portal said that the role of artificial intelligence in the COVID-stricken world is immense, and AI can play a vital role during the difficult times. He further added that digital innovation such as AI had been great equalisers for Indian citizens despite several challenges.

The website, according to NASSCOM, is the convergence point for students, AI experts, companies, entrepreneurs, and the government for nationwide sourcing and sharing of best AI ideas. The portal will reinforce the power of the AI to give rise to jobs at state-level and the role of startups in utilising data-driven innovation, among relaxed compliance procedures and regulatory bottlenecks.

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By Associated Press

SEOUL: In a cramped office in eastern Seoul, Hwang Seungwon points a remote control toward a huge NASA-like overhead screen stretching across one of the walls.

With each flick of the control, a colourful array of pie charts, graphs and maps reveals the search habits of thousands of South Korean senior citizens being monitored by voice-enabled "smart"speakers, an experimental remote care service the company says is increasingly needed during the coronavirus crisis.

"We closely monitor for signs of danger, whether they are more frequently using search words that indicate rising states of loneliness or insecurity,"said Hwang, director of a social enterprise established by SK Telecom to handle the service.

Trigger words lead to a recommendation for a visit by local public health officials.

As South Korea's government pushes to allow businesses to access vast amounts of personal information and to ease restrictions holding back telemedicine, tech firms could potentially find much bigger markets for their artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

The drive, resisted for years by civil liberty advocates and medical professionals, has been reinvigorated by a technology-driven fight against COVID-19.

It has so far allowed South Korea to emerge as something of a coronavirus success story but also raised broader worries that privacy is being sacrificed for epidemiological gains.

Armed with an infectious disease law that was strengthened after a 2015 outbreak of a different coronavirus, MERS, health authorities have aggressively used credit-card records, surveillance videos and cellphone data to find and isolate potential virus carriers.

Locations where patients went before they were diagnosed are published on websites and released through cellphone alerts.

Smartphone tracking apps are used to monitor around 30,000 individuals quarantined at home.

Starting in June, entertainment venues will be required to register customers with smartphone QR codes so they could be easily located if needed.

But there's a dark side.

People here have often managed to trace back the online information to the unnamed virus carriers, exposing embarrassing personal details and making them targets of public contempt.

A low point came earlier this month when local media described some Seoul nightclubs linked to dozens of infections as catering to sexual minorities, triggering homophobic responses.

Officials reacted by expanding "anonymous testing,"which allowed people to provide only their phone numbers and not their names during tests.

There was a subsequent increase in tests.

The past months have exposed a stark division about the best ways to make important decisions when privacy concerns collide with public health needs, said Haksoo Ko, a Seoul National University law professor and co-director of the school's Artificial Intelligence Policy Initiative.

Around 3,200 people across the country, mostly older than 70 and living alone, have so far allowed the SK Telecom speakers to listen to them 24 hours a day since the service launched in April 2019.

The company expects users to at least double by the end of the year, judging by local government interest.

The technology has reduced human contact in welfare services while still providing governments with a tool to prevent elderly residents from dying alone.

That's especially needed in a country grappling with an aging population and high poverty rates among retirees.

The speakers are built with an artificial intelligence and a lamp that turns blue when processing voice commands for news, music and internet searches.

The devices can also use quizzes to monitor the memory and cognitive functions of their elderly users, which would be potentially useful for advising treatments.

But it's difficult for SK Telecom's clients to use the information without clear legal guidelines for handling health data on private networks.

Similar reasons may also impede domestic use of health technologies developed by Samsung Electronics, which recently received approval for a smartwatch application that monitors blood pressure.

Officials are preparing regulations for revised data laws that lawmakers passed in January after months of wrangling.

They aim to allow businesses greater freedom in collecting and analyzing anonymous personal data without seeking individual consent.

But activist Oh Byoung-il said the changes could bring excessive privacy infringements unless robust safeguards are installed.

Doctors' groups have also resisted government calls for legalising telemedicine, raising concerns related to data security and a negative impact on smaller hospitals.

Industrial benefits will be limited if officials can't find the right combination of techniques to process personal information so that it can't be used to identify individuals.

Health and government authorities have failed to do this during the pandemic.

In Seoul's Yangcheon district, officials are using SK Telecom's tech to monitor some 200 seniors who live alone.

"It's nice to have something to talk to,"said Lee Chang-geun, an 89-year-old who has lived alone in his small apartment since his wife died three years ago.

"But I wish they developed an Aria function for opening doors. What good is a distress signal if I die while emergency workers try to force open my door?"

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Business continuity amid the COVID-19 lockdown is a big issue for all companies. Firms are not just at risk of facing outages, but also face continuous data security vulnerabilities and cyber threats. As per a study by PwC, the volume of cyberattacks on Indian companies has gone exponential as cybercriminals utilise the new work paradigm brought about by the COVID-19 outbreak to infiltrate corporate networks and steal data.

With the lockdown around the world, employees are expected to continue working remotely, which is undoubtedly a threat to most companies as the network perimeter has expanded radically. In the new work setting, fraudsters are using fake emails, websites, and VPAs (Virtual Payment Address) for fraud and social engineering.

To understand the situation better, Analytics India Magazine connected with Bharat Panchal, Chief Risk Officer India, Middle-East & Africa, Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) a Fortune 500 company and a leading provider of technology solutions for merchants, banks and capital markets firms globally.

Bharat comes with extensive leadership experience in managing cyber threats. Prior to his current role at FIS, he served as the SVP & Head Risk Management & Compliance at National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI), and previously was also the Vice President and Group InfoSec Audit Head at Kotak Mahindra Bank.

According to Bharat, to mitigate cyber threats and protect data, FIS is taking a comprehensive and multi-layered approach. We make use of advanced tools that include artificial intelligence to monitor and detect fraudulent transactions on a real-time basis, he said. The system continuously monitors various threat vectors and advises our customers to remain vigilant against such cyberattacks.

Here are the edited excerpts from the interaction:

With India under lockdown, organisations are increasingly allowing employees to work from home. However, as greater numbers of staff access sensitive data and process remotely, the possibility of a data breach, accidental data loss, virus or malware attack is a major risk for businesses across the country. The biggest risk is around accidental or unintentional leaks of sensitive information given the potential for reputation loss, customer claims and regulatory actions.

Cloud-based platforms are a key component to enabling business continuity during remote-working. The best line of defence for organisations looking to protect against platform vulnerabilities is ensuring employees are only using licensed platforms, a security-aware employee base, and the automatic deployment of all available security patches in a timely fashion.

The fraudsters are smart and try to find opportunity in every situation. In the current environment, fake emails for donations, emergency medical support, a charity for migrant labours, feeding to daily wagers etc. are rampant; people could easily be tricked into giving donations on those fake accounts possessed by fraudsters. The moratorium by RBI of EMI of any loan is a good attempt to ease the situation for the middle class. But, fraudsters have started making fake calls/messages to gullible customers asking for OTP to delay their EMIs and make use of pre-collected information about a customer to steal money from their account.

Fraudsters are using fake emails, websites, and VPAs (Virtual Payment Address) to solicit donations for a range of fraudulent matters ranging from emergency medical support, charity for migrant labourers, food for daily wagers, to fake hospitals, medicine, and people infected during the pandemic. Businesses can reduce these incidents by monitoring network traffic, transaction patterns, and user access habits. Companies can also reduce data security risks by restricting access to systems and emails for non-critical staff.

FIS takes a comprehensive and multi-layered approach to risk and security. We also make use of advanced tools including artificial intelligence to monitor and detect fraudulent transactions on a real-time basis. Our risk engine with Artificial intelligence is capable of predicting a probability of fraudulent transactions which helps our customers. We continuously monitor various threat vectors and our advice to our customers is to remain vigilant against such cyber-attacks.

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