4 In Japan, an artificial intelligence has been appointed creative director Automation will cause further disruption to the labor market in 2017. Just as mechanisation has had a profound effect on manual labour, AI is now similarly impacting traditional “white-collar” professions. For example, AI-CD β is an AI that is being treated as an actual employee by McCann Japan, contributing to the agency’s creative strategy. With 2016 also seeing the arrival of Armenia’s ever-evolving Lifos bots, AI being used to predict epidemics (Artificial Intelligence in Medical Epidemiology), and a Chinese AI-powered chatbot that provides medical diagnosis (Baidu’s Melody), 2017 will be a year dominated by even more breakthroughs in AI.
5 Online ratings turned into one reputation score
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6 Training people with disabilities to become drone pilots
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The anonymity of the online world can provoke a lack of trust in both vendors and buyers. Positive ratings and reviews can make all the difference, but until now these have been confined to individual e-commerce platforms, meaning newcomers have to start from scratch on each new site. Deemly aims to fix this by enabling users to consolidate all of their scores into one reliable, shareable ‘trustworthiness’ rating. To begin, users create a profile and connect it to their existing accounts. Then, Deemly calculates an overall score between 1-100 using a unique algorithm. Deemly takes into account factors such as how recently a score was given and assigns weighting accordingly. Then, newcomers can use their Deemly score to vouch for their reputation when using new services. In the future, Deemly scores could be used in other fields such as in job applications, banking and dating. For example, Israeli social network PersonalHeroes rewards good deeds online with kindness points. Are there any other positive characteristics, which could be leveraged online?
To many, if you utter the word “drones” it will call to mind negative military and surveillance connotations, but over the coming year we’re expecting to see a number of drone innovations that counter this association by helping make the world a better place. Last year, HandiDrone was an initiative we spotted that enables those with mobility issues and disabilities to learn how to fly modified, first person drones. The aim of the program is twofold: to enable participants to experience the tranquility and control of being outside their own bodies through First-Person-View flying, and to expose them to the emerging job of drone pilots, which could be compatible with their disability. In the UK, there is Pouncer — an eco-friendly humanitarian food aid drone adaptable to local dietary requirements.
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