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This article is the fifth installment in the AI FutureScape series, and in it, we discuss what our survey participants said when asked about the role international organizations like the UN should play in hedging against the risk of AI.

AI has numerous use cases in legal, from document search to compliance and contract abstraction. This week, we speak with Lars Mahler, Chief Science Officer for LegalSifter, about what's possible with AI for legal departments today and how AI applications for legal teams, such as natural language processing-based contract analysis, work. In addition, Mahler discusses how lawyers at companies and data scientists work together to train machine learning algorithms.

The finance sector has proven itself an early adopter of AI in comparison to other industries. As such, the applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in finance are myriad. Traders, wealth managers, insurers, and bankers are likely well aware of this in some form.

The focus of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to provide information to civilian institutions to help them solve scientific problems at home and in space. This requires a continuous stream of raw data under a constantly shifting environment.  According to a 2017 interview with Kevin Murphy, Earth Science Data Systems Program Executive at NASA, the biggest challenge now is not going where no man has gone before, but managing the data.

Natural language processing (NLP) seems to see less use in pharma than AI approaches such as machine vision and predictive analytics, but nevertheless there are a few applications for NLP in pharma. The industry deals mostly with structured data, but in some business areas, unstructured data is the norm. In this article, we discuss how natural language processing can help pharmaceutical companies make sense of their unstructured data and use it to make decisions.

When clients come to us for custom research projects, sometimes it's because it's a big firm that's looking to make acquisitions or it's a company that's looking for some kind of competitive intelligence. They're looking at who else is offering things like them and how they can position themselves against those other competitors in the market.

In the fourth installment of the FutureScape series, we discuss what our survey participants said when asked whether or not humans will play a role in the world once we reach the singularity.

Episode Summary: There's a lot of venture money pouring into artificial intelligence in healthcare. From pharma to hospitals and beyond, the potential applications in healthcare are promising. 

To some, facial recognition may feel like an AI technology with one chief use case and numerous niche ones that are not helpful outside of the client company that requested it. While security and anti-fraud solutions tend to dominate the conversation, there are many actionable possibilities for facial recognition software.

The insurance industry is dominated by large global firms that deal with thousands of customers filing insurance claims every day. Claims processing is a huge part of the insurance business process and improving turnaround time for each claim is critical to reducing operational costs at insurance firms.