AI Articles and Analysis about Security

Episode summary: In this episode, we speak with Alan O'Herlihy, Founder and CEO of Ireland-based Everseen. Alan speaks to us about how machine vision systems can be used to detect theft or mistakes at a checkout counter (including forgetting to scan items, customers intentionally hiding items, and more). Alan not only explains where these technologies are in use today, but he also breaks down some of his own predictions about what these computer vision systems might make possible in the workplace of tomorrow.

AT&T traces its history to 1875 when Bell Telephone was founded soon after Alexander Graham Bell patented his invention of the telephone. Today, AT&T is the world’s largest telecom and the largest mobile telephone service provider in the US. 

Airbnb started with two roommates, three air mattresses, and expensive San Francisco rent. In late September 2007, Joe Gebbia hatched the idea to Brian Chesky: rent out air mattresses to young designers in town for a conference. They would include internet, a workspace, breakfast, and a roof over their heads.

Leading retailers - like Walmart, Stop & Shop, and Home Depot - are enhancing their payment and fraud detection systems, using artificial intelligence that learns transaction norms and infers risk from the context of each transaction.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused incredible disruption in healthcare systems across the world, as well as an immediate demand for innovative solutions to the growing number of coronavirus patients. Many AI vendors are already trying to find ways they can serve this demand through augmenting their machine learning-powered products - from diagnostics interfaces to radiology solutions and everything in between. 

The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in a new era of digital payments; those who once mailed checks and made purchases in person are now paying their bills electronically and shopping online. As the economy is rattled by the coronavirus, there are some AI startups in the payments space that will succeed and others that will fail. All are pivoting rapidly to eCommerce, if that wasn't already their focus to begin with.

Large insurance companies have been experimenting with AI since the middle of the 2010s, piloting chatbots and collecting telematics data for future AI projects. The insurance industry more than many others relies on the collection of data to make critical business decisions.  Whether writing policies, or processing claims efficiently the way insurers employ data will determine the lifetime value of the customer.  

The top 100 global banks, including Goldman Sachs, are beginning to take AI strategies very seriously.