Oil & Gas Industry Transforming Itself with the Help of AI
By AI Trends Staff
The oil and gas industry is turning to AI to help cut operating costs, predict equipment failure, and increase oil and gas output.
A faulty well pump at an unmanned platform in...
AI Being Employed to Predict Wildfires with Greater Accuracy
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
As wildfire risk has grown larger and more destructive in recent years, especially in the drought-plagued West, AI is being employed to assess wildfire risks more accurately and...
Social Listening Tools Powered by AI Going for Deep Personalization
By AI Trends Staff
Social listening tools powered with AI are becoming a powerful way to measure customer sentiment and conduct audience research. These tools are good at mining unstructured text, such as in social...
AI Helping Customer Analytics Dive Deeper into Customer Experience
By AI Trends Staff
Corporate marketers are using AI to more deeply analyze the customer experience, and to augment analytics with new approaches and new tools. Here is a review of recent trends in the...
AI Employed to Model Progression, Research Drugs, Therapies to Fight Coronavirus
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
AI is being used on multiple fronts to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19), including for monitoring the spread, finding effective drugs, developing therapies and customizing clothing wearables embedded with...
AI Put to Work to Help US Steel Industry Stay Competitive
By AI Trends Staff
As the US steel industry looks for ways to lower costs in a global market facing slowing demand, a modern steel plant in Arkansas is using AI to help it become...
Insurance Companies Using AI to Build Safety Systems, Optimize Rates
By AI Trends Staff
Leading insurance companies in the $500 billion/year insurance industry are studying what types of ML applications to try to gain a business advantage, and startups are using AI to disrupt the...
AI Driving Personalization Efforts at Restaurants; Dynamic Drive-Thru Menus Coming
By AI Trends Staff
AI is no longer an under-the-radar experiment in the restaurant business, with many chains making substantial investments and headway with AI apps that seek to advance customer personalization.
Taco Bell, for example,...
AI in Weather Forecasting: Predicting When Lightning Will Strike
By AI Trends Staff
Researchers in Switzerland have figured out how to use AI to predict when and where lightning will strike.
Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne used standard meteorological data and machine learning...
Using AI to Help Find The Right Customer
By Benjamin Ross
Companies are finding unique ways to implement artificial intelligence (AI) in business practices, though the path to implementation hasn't been an easy one.
A major issue stems from current data models being weak....