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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN BUSINESS

Introduction

Business applications utilize the specific technologies mentioned earlier to try and make better sense of potentially enormous variability (for example, unknown patterns/relationships in sales data, customer buying habits, and so on). However, within the corporate world, AI is widely used for complex problem-solving and decision-support techniques in real-time business applications. The business applicability of AI techniques is spread across functions ranging from finance management to forecasting and production.
In the fiercely competitive and dynamic market scenario, decision-making has become fairly complex and latency is inherent in many processes. In addition, the amount of data to be analyzed has increased substantially. AI technologies help enterprises reduce latency in making business decisions, minimize fraud and enhance revenue opportunities.

Definition of AI

AI is a broad discipline that promises to simulate numerous innate human skills such as automatic programming, case-based reasoning, neural networks, decision-making, expert systems, natural language processing, pattern recognition and speech recognition etc. AI technologies bring more complex data-analysis features to existing applications.
There are many definitions that attempt to explain what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is. I like to think of AI as a science that investigates knowledge and intelligence, possibly the intelligent application of knowledge. Knowledge and Intelligence are as fundamental as the universe within which they exist, it may turn out that they are more fundamental.
One of the aims of AI is said to be the investigation of human cognition and AI is part of Cognitive Science. AI is really an investigation into the creation of intelligence and that there is no reason for the intelligence that is created to be exactly the same as human intelligence.

Importance of AI

Enterprises that utilize AI-enhanced applications are expected to become more diverse, as the needs for the ability to analyze data across multiple variables, fraud detection and customer relationship management emerge as key business drivers to gain competitive advantage.
Artificial Intelligence is a branch of Science which deals with helping machines, finds solutions to complex problems in a more human-like fashion. This generally involves borrowing characteristics from human intelligence, and applying them as algorithms in a computer friendly way. A more or less flexible or efficient approach can be taken depending on the requirements established, which influences how artificial the intelligent behavior appears.
AI is generally associated with Computer Science, but it has many important links with other fields such as Maths, Psychology, Cognition, Biology and Philosophy, among many others. Our ability to combine knowledge from all these fields will ultimately benefit our progress in the quest of creating an intelligent artificial being.

Emergence of AI in business

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used in business applications since the early eighties. As with all technologies, AI initially generated much interest, but failed to live up to the hype. However, with the advent of web-enabled infrastructure and rapid strides made by the AI development community, the application of AI techniques in real-time business applications has picked up substantially in the recent past.
Computers are fundamentally well suited to performing mechanical computations, using fixed programmed rules. This allows artificial machines to perform simple monotonous tasks efficiently and reliably, which humans are ill-suited to. For more complex problems, things get more difficult... Unlike humans, computers have trouble understanding specific situations, and adapting to new situations. Artificial Intelligence aims to improve machine behavior in tackling such complex tasks.
Together with this, much of AI research is allowing us to understand our intelligent behavior. Humans have an interesting approach to problem-solving, based on abstract thought, high-level deliberative reasoning and pattern recognition. Artificial Intelligence can help us understand this process by recreating it, then potentially enabling us to enhance it beyond our current capabilities.

Applications of AI

The potential applications of Artificial Intelligence are abundant. They stretch from the military for autonomous control and target identification, to the entertainment industry for computer games and robotic pets, to the big establishments dealing with huge amounts of information such as hospitals, banks and insurances, we can also use AI to predict customer behavior and detect trends.
AI is a broad discipline that promises to simulate numerous innate human skills such as automatic programming, case-based reasoning, decision-making, expert systems, natural language processing, pattern recognition and speech recognition etc. AI technologies bring more complex data-analysis features to existing applications.
Business applications utilize the specific technologies mentioned earlier to try and make better sense of potentially enormous variability (for example, unknown patterns/relationships in sales data, customer buying habits, and so on). However, within the corporate world, AI is widely used for complex problem-solving and decision-support techniques in real-time business applications. The business applicability of AI techniques is spread across functions ranging from finance management to forecasting and product

Artificial Neural Networks

An artificial neural network (ANN), often just called a "neural network" (NN), is a mathematical model or computational model based on biological neural networks. It consists of an interconnected group of artificial neurons and processes information using a connectionist approach to computation. In most cases an ANN is an adaptive system that changes its structure based on external or internal information that flows through the network during the learning phase. In more practical terms neural networks are non-linear statistical data modeling tools. They can be used to model complex relationships between inputs and outputs or to find patterns in data.
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Real life applications of ANN

The tasks to which artificial neural networks are applied tend to fall within the following broad categories:
• Function approximation, or regression analysis, including time series prediction and modeling.
• Classification, including pattern and sequence recognition, novelty detection and sequential decision making.
• Data processing, including filtering, clustering, blind source separation and compression.
Application areas include system identification and control (vehicle control, process control), game-playing and decision making (backgammon, chess, racing), pattern recognition (radar systems, face identification, object recognition and more), sequence recognition (gesture, speech, handwritten text recognition), medical diagnosis, financial applications (automated trading systems), data mining (or knowledge discovery in databases, "KDD"), visualization and e-mail spam filtering.
The proven success of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and expert systems has helped AI gain widespread adoption in enterprise business applications. In some instances, such as fraud detection, the use of AI has already become the most preferred method. In addition, neural networks have become a well-established technique for pattern recognition, particularly of images, data streams and complex data sources and, in turn, have emerged as a modeling backbone for a majority of data-mining tools available in the market. Some of the key business applications of AI/ANN include fraud detection, cross-selling, customer relationship management analytics, demand prediction, failure prediction, and non-linear control.
A majority of the enterprises adopt horizontal or vertical solutions that embed neural networks such as insurance risk assessment or fraud-detection tools, or data-mining tools that include neural networks (for instance, from SAS, IBM and SPSS) as one of the modeling options.
Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing
As the manufacturing industry becomes increasingly competitive, sophisticated technology has emerged to improve productivity. Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing can be applied to a variety of systems. It can recognize patterns, plus perform time consuming and mentally challenging tasks. Artificial Intelligence can optimize your production schedule and production runs. In order for organizations to meet ever increasing customer demands, and to be able to survive in an environment where change is inevitable, it is crucial that they offer more reliable delivery dates and control their costs by analyzing them on a continual basis. For businesses, being capable of delivering high quality goods at low costs and short delivery times is akin to operating in a whirlpool environment like the Devil's Triangle, and this is no easy task for any organization. Managing so that production takes place at the right time, on the right equipment, and using the right tools will minimize any deviations in delivery dates promised to the customer. Utilizing equipment, personnel and tools to their maximal efficiency will no doubt improve any organization's competitive strength. In return, proper utilization of these capabilities will result in lower costs for the organization
Optimal scheduling of jobs on equipment, without the use of computer software, is a truly difficult undertaking. Performing planning using the "Deterministic Simulation Method" will provide you with schedules that will indicate job loads per equipment. Even in the case limited to a single piece of equipment, as the number of jobs to schedule on that equipment increases, finding the right solution in the "Possible Solutions Set" becomes next to impossible. And in the real world, the difficulties arising from the large size of the solutions set due to the recipes formed by jobs, equipment and products, and shaped by the technological restrictions, as well as the complexity in finding a close to ideal solution, are readily apparent.
Research and studies are being conducted worldwide on the subject of scheduling. Software vendors working in this area follow developments closely, and they are coming out with new products to better meet demands. "Genetic Algorithms", "Artificial Intelligence", and "Neural Networks" are some of the technologies being used for scheduling

Advantages

• View your best product runs and the corresponding settings.
• Increase efficiency and quality by using optimal settings from past production.
• Artificial Intelligence can optimize your schedule beyond normal human capabilities.
• Increase productivity by eliminating downtime due to unpredictable changes in the schedule.

Artificial Intelligence in Financial services

AI has found a home in financial services and is recognized as a valuable addition to numerous business applications. Sophisticated technologies encompassing neural networks and business rules along with AI-based techniques are yielding positive results in transaction-oriented scenarios for financial services. AI has been widely adopted in such areas of risk management, compliance, and securities trading and monitoring, with an extension into customer relationship management (CRM). Tangible benefits of AI adoption include reduced risk of fraud, increased revenues from existing customers due to newer opportunities, avoidance of fines stemming from non-compliance and averted securities trade exceptions that could result in delayed settlement, if not detected.
Warren Buffet is known as the ultimate investor in this age. So good is he, in fact, that artificial intelligence software developed in Carnegie Mellon that predicts stock movements was named after him by. But can machines really take the place of human traders, much less surpass them? When Deep Blue defeated Chess Grandmaster Kasparov in 1997, AI was propelled into the limelight. Indeed, if a machine can whiz through the intricacies of the ultimate game of strategy, why not beat man in other fields as well – thereby facilitating work, decreasing costs and errors and increasing productivity and quality. This study focuses on applying AI in Finance, particularly in stock trading. In the field of Finance, artificial intelligence has long been used. Some applications of Artificial Intelligence are
• Credit authorization screening
• Mortgage risk assessment
• Project management and bidding strategy
• Financial and economic forecasting
• Risk rating of exchange-traded, fixed income investments
• Detection of regularities in security price movements
• Prediction of default and bankruptcy
• Security/and or Asset Portfolio Management
Artificial intelligence types used in finance include neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, expert systems and intelligent agents. They are often used in combination with each other. When AI first appeared a decade ago, it generated mass media hype but delivered inconsistent results. A number of those who praised its ability were paralyzed in the end. One such case is Fidelity Investments. In this paper, we set the stage by describing how traditional stock trading differs from AI-powered stock trading. We define the various AI systems available and also explore the various solutions available in the market, their IT foundations and how salient they are. Then, we move into how AI systems for stock trading will affect traders, companies and individuals. Benefits, risks and competitive strategy will be defined and real-world examples cited, as grounding for our recommendations in the end. Recommendations include getting management buy-in, implementing the system and managing the whole structure to succeed.

Artificial Intelligence in Marketing

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) eventually could turbo-boost customer analytics to give companies speedier insights into individual buying patterns and a host of other consumer habits.
Artificial intelligence functions are made possible by computerized neural networks that simulate the same types of connections that are made in the human brain to generate thought. Currently, the technology is used mostly to analyze data for genetics, pharmaceutical and other scientific research. It's seeing little use in CRM right now, though it has tremendous potential in the future
AI-enhanced analytics programs also provide survival modeling capabilities -- suggesting changes to products based on use. For example, customer patterns are analyzed to learn ways to extend the life of light bulbs or to help decide the correct dosage for medications.
High-tech data mining can give companies a precise view of how particular segments of the customer base react to a product or service and propose changes consistent with those findings. In addition to further exploring customers" buying patterns, analytics could help companies react much more quickly to the marketplace.
According to Meta Group vice president Liz Shahnam, intelligent agents could let companies make real-time changes to marketing campaigns. "New technologies would have the model refreshed on the fly based on each new incoming piece of customer information -- reaction to the campaign -- for a more targeted offer,"

Artificial Intelligence in HR

It is widely believed that the role of managers is becoming a key determinant for enterprises' competitiveness in today's knowledge economy era. Owing to fast development of information technologies (ITs), corporations are employed to enhance the capability of human resource management, which is called human resource information system (HRIS). Recently, due to promising results of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and fuzzy theory in engineering, they have also become candidates for HRIS. The artificial intelligence (AT) field can play a role in this, especially; in assuring that the fuzzy neural network has the characteristics and functions of training, learning, and simulation to make an optimal and accurate judgment according to the human thinking model. The main purposes of the study are to discuss the appointment of managers in enterprises through fuzzy neural network, to construct a new model for evaluation of managerial talent, and accordingly to develop a decision support system in human resource selection. Therefore, the research methods of reviewing literature, in-depth interview, questionnaire survey, and fuzzy neural network are used in the study. The fuzzy neural network is used to train the concrete database, based on 191 questionnaires from experts, for getting the best network model in different training conditions. In order to let decision-makers adjust weighted values and obtain decisive results of each phase's scores, we adopted the simple additive weighting (SAW) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) methods in the study. Finally, the human resource selection system of Java user interface has been constructed by FNN in the study.

Conclusion

It is difficult for business to see general relevance from AI. This is probably one of the reasons for the compartmentalization of AI into things like Knowledge Based Systems, Neural Networks, and Genetic Algorithms etc. Some of these separate sub topics have been shown to be very useful in solving certain difficult business and industrial problems and consequently funding bodies influence research directions by encouraging work on these more application based areas. This can have a positive effect for business benefit and has lead to some very useful systems that have found their way into the heart of business activity. Business should not lose sight of where AI could go because there are many potential benefits to current and new businesses of future research. The idea of robotic domestic workers is still far fetched but companies are making progress even here. There is already a Robot Vacuum Cleaner marketed by Electrolux and doubtless improved systems with better functionality will follow. .
I would like to close by quoting from Tom Peters, a leading management guru: "When you think you've reached the top, tear down everything and do it all over again. If you don't, your competitor will." To this, I would like to add my own: "If your competitor won't, new investors will enter the market segment who will do the same job better."

Artificial Intelligence in Business — Presentation Transcript

• 1. Artificial Intelligence In BusinessPresented By:-Ajay Kumar KabirSandhuSimmiBalujaSavisca Singh

• 2. What is Artificial Intelligence?Artificial intelligence is a branch of science which deals with helping machines find solutions to complex problems in a more human-like fashion.This generally involves borrowing characteristics from human intelligence, and applying them as algorithms in a computer friendly way.

• 3. Cont/…AI is generally associated with Computer Science, but it has many important links with other fields such as:- Mathematics Psychology Cognition Biology Philosophy

• 4. Why Artificial Intelligence?Computersare fundamentally well suited to perform mechanical computations, using fixed programmed rules efficiently and reliably.computers have trouble understanding specific situations, and adapting to new situations.Artificial Intelligence aims to improve machine behavior in tackling such complex tasks.

• 5. Why Artificial Intelligence?Humanshave an interesting approach to problem-solving, based on abstract thought, high-level deliberative reasoning and pattern recognition.Artificial Intelligence can help us understand this process by recreating it, then potentially enabling us to enhance it beyond our current capabilities.

• 6. A BRIEF HISTORY OF ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCEAncient History5th century B.C. 13th century15th century15th-16th century16th century17th century18th century19th century

• 7. Cont/…20th centuryMODERN HISTORY:- “John McCarthy” coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" as the topic of the Dartmouth Conference, the first conference devoted to the subject.

• 8. Types Of AI

• 9. What are the branches of AI?Logical AI:-What a program knows about the world in general the facts of the specific situation in which It must act, and its goals are all represented by sentences of some mathematical logical languageSearch:-AI programs often examine large numbers of possibilities, e.g. moves in a Chess Game or inferences by a Theorem proving program.

• 10. Cont/…Pattern Recognition:- When a program makes observations of some kind, it is often programmed to compare what it sees with a pattern. Genetic Programming:- It is a technique for getting programs to solve a task by mating random Lisp programs and selecting fittest in millions of generations.

• 11. Cont/…Inference:-From some facts, others can be inferred.Common Sense Knowledge And ReasoningLearning From ExperiencePlanningEpistemology:-This is a study of the kinds of knowledge that are required for solving problems in the world.Ontology:-Ontology is the study of the kinds of things that exist.

• 12. Applications of AIcomputer visionGame PlayingSpeech Recognition Understanding Natural Language Computer VisionExpert Systems Heuristic Classification

• 13. Artificial Intelligence in Financial servicesCredit Authorization screening Mortgage risk assessment Project management and bidding strategy Financial and economic forecasting Risk rating of exchange-traded, fixed income investments Detection of regularities in security price movements Prediction of default and bankruptcy Security/and or Asset Portfolio Management

• 14. Artificial Intelligence in MarketingAdvances in artificial intelligence (AI) eventually could turbo-boost customer analytics to give companies speedier insights into individual buying patterns and a host of other consumer habits. The technology is used mostly to analyze data for Genetics, Pharmaceutical and Other Scientific Research. High-tech data mining can give companies a precise view of how particular segments of the customer base react to a product or service.

• 15. Artificial Intelligence In HR The Artificial Intelligence (AT) field can play a role in assuring that the fuzzy Neural Network has the characteristics and functions of Training,Learning. It has simulation to make an Optimal And Accurate Judgment according to the human thinking model.

• 16. The Future Of Artificial Intelligencefamily robots may be permanently connected to wireless family intranets, sharing information with those who you want to know where you are.Crime may get difficult if all family homes are full of half-aware, loyal family machines. A mixture of horse intelligence in car technology.If cars were all (wireless) networked, and humans stopped driving

• 17. Conclusion we shouldn't expect that the human race will become extinct and be replaced by robots. We can expect that classical AI will go on producing more and more sophisticated applications in restricted domains - Expert Systems, Chess Programs, Internet Agents

• 18. THANK YOU!

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Artificial intelligence in business — Presentation Transcript

• AI is a broad discipline that promises to simulate numerous innate human skills such as automatic programming, case-based reasoning, neural networks, decision-making, expert systems, natural language processing, pattern recognition and speech recognition etc( It is the study and design of intelligent agents.(1. is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it.

• Customer relationship management( Fraud detection( Multiple variables( Enterprises that utilize AI-enhanced applications are expected to become more diverse, as the needs for the ability to analyze data across:-(2.

• Artificial Intelligence can help us understand this process by recreating it, then potentially enabling us to enhance it beyond our current capabilities.( Humans have an interesting approach to problem-solving, based on abstract thought, high-level deliberative reasoning and pattern recognition.( Artificial Intelligence aims to improve machine behavior in tackling complex tasks.(3.

• AI techniques are spread across functions ranging from finance management to forecasting and product( Complex problem-solving and decision- support techniques in real-time business applications.( Customer buying habits( Unknown patterns/relationships in sales data(4. Business applications such as:-

• In practical terms neural networks are non-linear statistical data modeling tools. They can be used to model complex relationships between inputs and outputs or to find patterns in data.( It consists of an interconnected group of artificial neurons and processes information using a connectionist approach to computation.( An artificial neural network (ANN) is a mathematical model or computational model based on biological neural networks.(5.

• The tasks to which artificial neural networks are applied tend to fall within the following broad categories: • Function approximation, or regression analysis, including time series prediction and modeling. • Classification, including pattern and sequence recognition, novelty detection and sequential decision making. • Data processing, including filtering, clustering, blind source separation and compression.(6.

• Increase productivity by eliminating downtime due to unpredictable changes in the schedule.( Artificial Intelligence can optimize your schedule beyond normal human capabilities.( Increase efficiency and quality by using optimal settings from past production.( View your best product runs and the corresponding settings.(7.

• ( Detection of regularities in security price movements( Risk rating of exchange-traded, fixed income investments( Financial and economic forecasting( Project management and bidding strategy( Mortgage risk assessment( Credit authorization screening( In the field of Finance, artificial intelligence has long been used. Some applications of Artificial Intelligence are:-(8. Security/and or Asset Portfolio Management(Prediction of default and bankruptcy

• Buying patterns, analytics could help companies react much more quickly to the marketplace.( High-tech data mining can give companies a precise view of how particular segments of the customer base react to a product or service( Customer relationship management (CRM).( Computerized neural networks( In Marketing, Some applications of Artificial Intelligence are :-(9.

• fuzzy neural network, to construct a new model for evaluation of managerial talent, and accordingly to develop a decision support system in human resource selection.( Use of neural networks and fuzzy logic in human resource information system(HRIS).( Some applications of AI in HR are:-(10.

• It is difficult for business to see general relevance from AI. AI can have a positive effect for business benefit and has lead to some very useful systems that have found their way into the heart of business activity. Business should not lose sight of where AI could go because there are many potential benefits to current and new businesses of future research. The idea of robotic domestic workers is still far fetched but companies are making progress even here. There is already a Robot Vacuum Cleaner marketed by Electrolux and doubtless improved systems with better functionality will follow. .(11.