Latest Artificial Intelligence Headlines
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How Laws Will Tell Humans From Robots Is No Joke: Viewpoint
Mar 18 2019 // There’s a lot of loose talk about convergence between people and robots. As some see it, the rise of artificial intelligence will make humans obsolete — or at least force people to think more like machines. Whether...
Aon, Insurtech Zesty.ai Partner to Enhance Property Underwriting with AI Data
Mar 13 2019 // Aon has formed a strategic alliance with Zesty.ai, a San Francisco-based insurtech startup, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance insurers’ property underwriting. Zesty.ai’s technology provides...
Shift Technology Raises $60M to Expand Use of AI for Fraudulent Claims Detection
Mar 6 2019 // Shift Technology has raised $60 million in new venture financing, money that will help grow the reach of its artificial intelligence and big data technology designed to help carriers detect fraud during the claims...
Whew! Human Beats IBM’s AI Machine in Debate
Feb 13 2019 // International Business Machines Corp. fell short in its latest attempt to prove machines can triumph over man. But it came close. The tech giant’s six-year-old artificial intelligence debating system, affectionately...
Artificial Intelligence Startups Win Zurich’s 1st Global Insurtech Competition
Feb 8 2019 // Zurich Insurance Group announced that the gold and silver winners for its first global insurtech competition were startups that have developed artificial intelligence-based solutions. Toronto-based Chisel AI was the gold...
Microsoft Targets Healthcare with Medical Records in the Cloud, Bots and More
Feb 7 2019 // Microsoft Corp. is releasing a service to help health-care companies move vast amounts of patient data to its cloud and connect with other related systems in a bid to offer clinicians, individuals and researchers a more...
Automation and Workers of the Future
Feb 4 2019 // Automation won’t be replacing the entire workforce but about one-quarter of U.S. jobs could be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence (AI) takes hold in the near future. According to a new Brookings...
AI-Driven MGA Clearcover Raises $43 Million; American Family Among Backers
Jan 23 2019 // American Family Insurance joined a new $43 million financing round for Clearcover, a managing general agent with an artificial intelligence-driven platform focused on car insurance. The Chicago-based insurtech startup said...
AXA XL Uses AI to Speed Up Property Engineering Risk Analysis, Underwriting
Jan 10 2019 // AXA XL Risk Consulting announced it is using artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance its property risk engineering capabilities. AXA XL Risk Consulting is working with Expert System, an Italian developer of cognitive...
How Big Tech Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Stop Hackers
Jan 3 2019 // Last year, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company’s administrators, who usually logs on from New York, was trying...
Competition in Artificial Intelligence Is Like New Space Race: Viewpoint
Jan 2 2019 // It’s been another year of relentless artificial-intelligence hype and incremental AI achievement. Machines still beat humans only in carefully constructed environments or at narrow tasks. The good news is that, as...
Los Alamos Lab Research Findings Could Lead to Earthquake Early Warning System
Dec 18 2018 // Machine-learning research published in two related papers today in Nature Geosciences reports the detection of seismic signals accurately predicting the Cascadia fault’s slow slippage, a type of failure observed to...
AI Enhances Highway Safety in Las Vegas
Dec 3 2018 // Artificial intelligence is helping improve safety along a stretch of Las Vegas’ busiest highway. The Nevada Highway Patrol says a yearlong partnership between public safety agencies and a startup technology firm...
Imagery and Artificial Intelligence in Wildfire Risk
Dec 3 2018 // Fires across North America in 2018 have continued the pattern of extreme destruction established by significant insured loss events in both Northern and Southern California last year and the 2016 disasters in Alberta and...
AI Enhances Highway Safety in Las Vegas
Nov 26 2018 // Artificial intelligence is helping improve safety along a stretch of Las Vegas’ busiest highway. The Nevada Highway Patrol says a yearlong partnership between public safety agencies and a startup technology firm...
Google Invests in Insurance Agency Software Firm Applied Systems
Oct 17 2018 // Giant Google’s investment arm has purchased a minority stake in Applied Systems, a provider of insurance technology and cloud-based software for independent agencies. The investment in Applied Systems is being made...
Get Ready for the Insurtech Revolution, Act 2
Oct 8 2018 // The digital revolution in insurance is about to begin its second act. Having in its first phase used science and technology to inspire a rethinking of insurance that is making insurance easier and more efficient to buy and...
For True Disruption, Embrace Innovation
Oct 1 2018 // The auto insurance industry is in the midst of major disruption powered by technology and vibrant new players. Disruption gives way to fresh ideas that can have both profound and positive impacts on our lives and...
Banks and Insurers Have Improved Their Cyber Defenses
Sep 20 2018 // Despite the volume of cyberattacks doubling in 2017, banks and insurance firm firms are closing the gap on cyber attacks, having stopped four in five of all breach attempts last year. According to a study by Accenture,...
Big High Tech Is Big on Reimagining Health Care
Sep 17 2018 // Apple Inc.’s new watch is the latest proof: Big Tech is trying to remake health care in its own image. The device, introduced at a splashy launch event this week, can call for help after a fall. It can monitor...
