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With the number of COVID-19 cases crossing 18 million mark, the healthcare system across the globe has suffered a major blow against the management of COVID-19. In India, COVID-19 has proved challenging initially for identifying the COVID patients and diagnosing the disease. However, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the past few years, has rendered the Healthline workers and the government for solutions, to stall this roadblock.

Artificial Intelligence uses the technology of powerful algorithms which then processes the data, thus identifying patterns. Thus, for any Artificial Intelligence to be successful, big data is necessary.

Across the globe, as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is expensive and time-consuming, Chest X-rays are now used as a standardized procedure for the diagnosis of COVID-19. However, a simple chest X-ray cannot distinguish the disease and the extent of infection affecting the lungs.

Artificial Intelligence, in collaboration with Chest X-rays, helps in identifying the abnormal findings, thus diagnosing the ground glass opacities in the lungs, which is a classic feature of the COVID-19 disease. Many companies such asQure.ai, a Mumbai based start-up, andTata consultancy serviceshave used AI in a chest X-ray for the diagnosis of COVID-19. The AI developed by Qure.ai also helps in identifying the extent of infection affecting the lungs. This is usually valuable for patients who remain in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

In April, Apple and Google, the two big tech giants, colluded for developing a contact-based app to trace COVID-19 patients. The app works on Bluetooth and has been mostly used in western countries. In India, the government ruled out a similar strategy by developing the Aarogya Setu app.

In June, India told the UN, that drones and contact tracing apps have helped India in managing COVID cases. The app employs Bluetooth and location data to let the user know of any suspected COVID-19 patients nearby. This app is developed in 12 languages and has a user database of more than 10 million people.

Other mobile applications such as GoCoronaGo and Sampark-o-meter have also been developed for contact tracing by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and IITs.

In Odisha, the state health department co-operated with the IT industry for developing drones which were proven helpful in checking infringement of rules in containment zones.

Apart from using the Aarogya Setu app, for contact tracing, many states have exercised AI to identify people who are mask violators with the help of AI cameras.

InTelangana, due to a surge in the COVID cases, the police department has come up with installing a software tool in the CCTV cameras to identify the mask violators. After identifying it sends a notification to the police headquarters, which in turn sends the update to the patrolling police team.

This model is similar to the AI model developed by China for tracking mask violators. This kind of AI technology is initially installed in Hyderabad, Cyberabad, and Rachakonda.

During the progression of the coronavirus, AI has facilitated manual repurposing of drugs to treat COVID-19. Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) has developed an AI model that can repurpose medicines according to the highest success probability against the disease, instead of going through the entire process manually.

Tata Consultancy Services is also using AI technology to crunch down the large molecule of drugs into highly effective molecules against the disease, thus reducing the time duration of the process.

Besides this, AI has proven effective in providing Tele-medicines and Tele-consultation, online consultation with health experts concerning a particular disease. In many states, likeChhattisgarh, AI is proven as a success by online training of the medics for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Kerala, Robots are used fordelivering hand sanitizersand delivering public health messages at the entrance of the office buildings and in isolation wards, to combat COVID-19.

The IIT and Stanford Alumni have also come up with a solution fordisinfecting public spaces. They have developed a machine called Robo Sapien, which controls the spread of the virus by ionizing the corona discharge.

Many start-ups are nowusing AIto come with solutions against the spread of COVID-19.

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A new world of work is on the horizon, driven by artificial intelligence. By 2025, the World Economic Forum predicts that 52 per cent of total task hours across existing jobs will be performed by machines. By 2030, up to 800 million jobs could be replaced by technology altogether.

That said, the outlook is far from bleak. Rather than eliminating positions, technology is expected to bring about net positive jobs over the coming decade but a fact equally as important (and often overlooked) is that artificial intelligence presents an opportunity for a more socioeconomically inclusive career start.

Throughout much of the past century, a persons success in life could be largely attributed to their socioeconomic circumstances at birth. Studies have shown that children born into middle-class homes have greater access to opportunities that are more highly correlated with successful occupational outcomes, such as good schools and financial support. As a result, these children are far more likely to succeed in primary school, high school and post-secondary education.

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These advantages are compounded when it comes to hiring for jobs out of post-secondary school. Resumes, in this way, mirror our privilege.

The criteria for success in the future of work, however, presents an opportunity for a fairer system to assess job fit: skills.

If machine intelligence becomes a large source of expertise (i.e., cancer-screening detection, market research analytics and driving, just to name a few), people will need to adapt and change their skillsets to remain employable. A recent white paper published by IBM rated adaptability as the most important skill that executives will be hiring for in the future. Moreover, as technology continues to advance, our technical skills continue to depreciate (by approximately 50 per cent every five years).

As a result of all of these changes, we will have to upskill (which is the process of learning new skills or teaching workers new skills). Well have to learn and unlearn throughout the majority of our working lives. This changes the formula from front-loading education early in life to a life of continuous learning. It also places skills, like that adaptability mentioned above, more centrally as the currency of labour.

As the CEO of Upwork, one of the fastest-growing gig platforms in the world, wrote two years ago, What matters to me is not whether someone has a computer science degree, but how well they can think and how well they can code. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, echoed a similar sentiment, stating that the reality is, the new world of work is about skills, not necessarily degrees.

Of course, degrees will still have value. It will also take some time to readjust our job-fit assessment infrastructures. However, paths that do not include a four-year post-secondary degree will also be included in the job-fit assessment as skills become central. This can make room for more inclusive opportunities for career advancement.

Having a more inclusive job-fit assessment infrastructure, however, will not happen automatically. There are many challenges that governments and employers will have to overcome, and actions they will need to take:

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The adoption of advanced technologies in the workforce will revolutionize work. In fact, our very definition of what it means to work may change. How governments and employers respond to these changes will have a large impact on whether this results in positive gains for more people. We have the potential to build a future that works for more people than it currently does, and it is up to us to make it happen.

Sinead Bovell is a futurist and founder of WAYE (Weekly Advice for Young Entrepreneurs), an organization aiming to educate young entrepreneurs on the intersection of business, technology, and the future. She is the Leadership Lab columnist for August 2020.

This column is part of Globe Careers Leadership Lab series, where executives and experts share their views and advice about the world of work. Find all Leadership Lab stories at tgam.ca/leadershiplab and guidelines for how to contribute to the column here.

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A play written entirely by artificial intelligence is expected to premiere next January.

Created by Czech researchers at Charles University, vanda Theater and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the piece will be a new reimagining of science-fiction script R U R by Josef apek.

The play, which celebrates its 100th anniversary next year, is the first to explore the concept of a "robot" and introduced the word to the English language.

According to TechXplore, who interviewed one of the researchers Rudolf Rosa, the process has been a protracted one, with the team having to break down the overall play into individual scenes and moments that the AI can turn into dialogue.

The team is utilising what is known as a "pre-trained language model" (ie an AI system that has been fed with a wide array of English literature texts). The main limiting factor at the moment is that the existing model has not yet been trained to produce performance-suitable scripts, so the plan is for researchers to "feed" the AI with plays for it to learn from.

The model essentially takes a small chunk of existing text (in this case, apek's original play) and then is "inspired" to create further lines, themes and ideas.

As Rosa puts it: "When we fed GPT-2 a scene setting and a few lines of the drama script, it generated further lines in the same style and focusing on the topic of the input script chunk."

As an open-source AI, it's available for anyone to use, and the results are already rather startling. As Rosa says, "We only fed it a few lines from a script and it picked up its genre, structure, topic and character names, using this information to generate more or less plausible lines.

"This was achieved without any adaptation or fine-tuning: we just used the model as it is available online for download, which shows that GPT-2 models really are quite powerful."

But humans are a vital aspect of the development, with Rosa saying that creatives "touch and retouch" what is created by the machine. Though this doesn't mean the human simply rewrites the lines: "We are trying to be very explicit on what the machine does and what a human does, making their cooperation an integral part of the system design, not a post-hoc fix."

The new play is expected to premiere in 2021, with a final script ready by September for actors to rehearse with. According to the Czech team, future plans include getting a play to be performed entirely by robots, without human performers or guidance.

A recent project led by Andy Serkis sought to use digital technology to allow actor's motions to be captured and then projected onto a table-top to create a "live" at-home experience. Utilising the hit musical The Grinning Man as a test, the machine was also able to swap out character features and alter dialogue.

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Artificial intelligence (A.I.) will one day integrate into human lives.

While some of us are worried this form of technology will take over many jobs, its also being used to enhance currently existing technology.

But for those of you that still dont understand the potential of what AI can do, here are some tools and games you can try on your web browser.

Sometimes when youre playing the piano, you might wish that you could perform a duet with someone else, only to realize that the people around you are tone deaf and should never touch a musical instrument.

The good news is there's a program called A.I. Duet that can listen to the notes youre playing and try to follow up with its own tunes.

It works best when youre playing a real song and not just some random notes. The application even allows you to plug in a MIDI keyboard for a full-on duet experience.

If you love Netflixs Stranger Things and want more of it in your life, youre in for a treat.

Neural network developer David Arcus uses AI that can take an image and turn it into a Stranger Things-like poster. It can also understand whats on the image that youve uploaded and change the title of the show into something like Stranger Public Speaking, Stranger Personal Protective Equipment, and more.

The A.I. seems to use the same design for each image, only with a few differences in the positioning. But its quite impressive that it knows how to pick up on the correct context in the picture.

It also makes for a great profile picture for your social media accounts.

Google has a wide variety of AI experiments for anyone to try.

One of them is called Quick, Draw. A Pictionary game where you have to draw a picture, while AI tries to guess what you've drawn.

The program is connected to a data set of 50 million doodles from which it learns terrible drawings and works of art. It tries to combine both these skill levels and use them as a reference to what youre drawing. The cool part about this program: It will show you which doodles it used as a reference to guess your drawings.

If you're a master doodler, you can contribute to the drawings by uploading it to the doodle data set, which in turn, will improve the AI's guessing feature.

Moving away from fun and games, lets look at some tools that use AI to help those in need.

One of the best accessibility apps that Ive ever seen is the Seeing AI phone application from Microsoft. Seeing AI, to put it simply, is an app that narrates the world around you.

Just point the camera at literally anything, and the app will give you a context of whats around you. It has multiple features built-in, like text dictation and scene identification. It can even read banknotes.

Sadly, Seeing AI is only available on iOS, and Microsoft currently has no plans to release it on Android.

Yes, Im talking about Google Assistant and Siri for Android and iOS, respectively.

These virtual assistants are your training wheels when getting into the world of A.I. Even for those who have disabilities, Google Assistant and Siri have come a long way in making life better and smarter.

While some might argue that Google Assistant is more superior, nevertheless, both can make calls, play music, answer questions, and control your smart home appliances. Ill admit, Google does have the upper hand when it comes to smart assistants with their Google Duplex feature.

It can make calls and appointments on your behalf. It mimics the voice and tone of a real human when speaking with the person on the other end. It can even use filler words like 'mm-hmm' to add to the human-like experience.

I dont think we should fear the impending doom of AI taking over our jobs. I believe it will be here to enhance our lives and daily tasks. As is evident above. they can be fun and helpful too.

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The global geospatial solutions & services market accounted for US$ 238.5 billion in 2019 and is estimated to be US$ 1013.7 billion by 2029 and is anticipated to register a CAGR of 15.7%

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In April 2020, HERE Technologies, a leading provider of mapping and location platform services, today announced its partnership with Gurgaon-headquartered Deduce Technologies with an aim to offer accurate information about Indian roads and traffic conditions. The partnership is expected to enhance HEREs Real-Time Traffic solution that identifies congestion areas and its reasons by delivering high-quality flow and incident content every minute.

In February 2020, Microsoft extended its partnership with TomTom in order to expand its mapping scenarios and secured location APIs for providing geospatial context to data.

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Geospatial technology comprises GIS (geographical information systems), GPS (global positioning systems), and RS (remote sensing), a technology that provides a radically different way of producing and using maps that are required to manage communities and industries. Developed economies are expected to provide lucrative opportunities to the industry for geospatial solutions. The application of geospatial techniques across the globe has witnessed a steady growth over the past decades, owing to simple accessibility of geospatial technology in advanced nations such as the U.S. and Canada, thus further driving growth of the target the market. Moreover, rising smart city initiatives in emerging countries have resulted in the growing need for geospatial technologies for use in 3D urban mapping, monitoring and mapping natural resources. Increasing adoption of IoT, big data analysis, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the globe is projected to create profitable opportunities for global geospatial solutions & services market throughout the forecast period.

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The global geospatial solutions & services market accounted for US$ 238.5 billion in 2019 and is estimated to be US$ 1013.7 billion by 2029 and is anticipated to register a CAGR of 15.7%. The market report has been segmented on the basis of solution type, technology, end-user, application, and region.

By solution type, the software segment accounts for the majority of revenue share in the target market and thus has a greater share of the geospatial technologies and solutions sector.

By technology, the earth observation segment is expected to account for the largest market share by 2024. Technologies such as satellite imagery, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), and other related technologies are expected to drive growth of this segment over the forecast period.

By end-user, the target market is classified into utility, business, transportation, defence & intelligence, infrastructural development, natural resource, and others.

By application, the target market is classified into surveying & mapping, geovisualization, asset management, planning & analysis, and others.

By region, Currently, North America dominates the global geospatial solutions & services market in terms of revenue terms due to high adoption of latest technologies such as internet of thigs (IOT), cloud, and big data in the region. The market in Europe estimated for second-largest revenue share in the global geospatial solutions & services market, closely followed by the market in Asia Pacific.

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Competitive Landscape:

The prominent player operating in the global geospatial solutions & services market includes HERE Technologies, Esri (US), Hexagon (Sweden), Atkins PLC, Pitney Bowes, Topcon Corporation, DigitalGlobe, Inc. (Maxar Group), General Electric, Harris Corporation (US), and Google.

The market provides detailed information regarding the industrial base, productivity, strengths, manufacturers, and recent trends which will help companies enlarge the businesses and promote financial growth. Furthermore, the report exhibits dynamic factors including segments, sub-segments, regional marketplaces, competition, dominant key players, and market forecasts. In addition, the market includes recent collaborations, mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships along with regulatory frameworks across different regions impacting the market trajectory. Recent technological advances and innovations influencing the global market are included in the report.

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