7 Secret insights about Pet Parents
Pet Owners: Secret Insights of pet parents in India Sherlock AI embarks on a cute mission this time. It identifies people who have pets in Mumbai & Pune and understands
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Story of data – Aug 22, 2021
Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan pushed the country back by decades and it has been extremely tough news to take in. While the future of so many Afghan girls is at stake, in a heroic act, 60-year-old Allyson Reneau, a mother of 11 from Oklahoma, was able to fly to Mideast and rescue 10 of the all-girls robotics team of the country with the help of her friend in Qatar.
The world of AI is getting smarter by the day and while Alexa may have been your companion over the past few years, it already has competition. There is a hot new AI assistant in town. Astor, a mid-size SUV is set to be India's First Car with AI Inside. It comes with an in-car personal AI assistant. Astor which goes on sale next month will have Level 2 ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems), but more importantly in the era when most cars come armed with voice commands and such, MG India's Astor will feature the personal assistant which will answer the queries of the owner.
If this wasn't big news, we gasped upon reading Elon Musk's unexpected unveiling of Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot that runs on the same AI as Tesla's fleet of autonomous vehicles. This friendly robot will be 5 ft and 8 inches tall, will be built with lightweight materials, and most importantly will be able to navigate through a world built for humans. The life-size humanoid robot set to make a debut next year, is said to "eliminate dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks."
AI is also making leaps in healthcare. Diagnosing dementia is an uphill task as of today but this may change in the very near future. This week's blog post explores how AI has been able to help humanity make big strides in the treatment of dementia. The blog post also speaks about AI-mind, a project dedicated to making AI backed tools to screen the brain for the risk of dementia. Diagnosing dementia in just a day will be possible soon! In fact, a simple line drawing of two children stealing cookies behind their (supposedly) mother's back is being used by an AI system to detect the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
The AI model, developed by IBM Research and Pfizer, has been using the test for many years for diagnosing dementia and other cognitive illnesses. The model asks the respondents to describe what they observe in the picture and then analyses the voice samples of the respondents to predict whether they are healthy or likely to get the disease. It is said that the model can predict with 70% accuracy compared with human doctors about the onset of the disease seven years earlier.
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Video editing and film-making
If you have ever been in the business of video editing, especially when a famous celebrity was involved, and no matter how much you try to salvage the video, you cannot; deepfakes will help with that clip and your video will be made uninterrupted. Earlier, movie directors would spend millions on creating the perfect location for their movies. This is now achievable with a far lesser sum using deepfake and AI. Deepfakes can be real game-changers in film-making. Imagine new movies starring Charlie Chaplin opening to full houses. This, ofcourse, after all the copyright issues are taken into consideration..
7 mind-boggling insights from Consumer Electronics Store footfalls
What is the brand which comes to people's mind when they think about purchasing consumer electronics- is it Reliance Digital Retail Ltd.? Has Xiaomi Technology finally positioned itself as a premium brand? What is common between multi-brand electronic retailers and the people who visit them? What is consumer mindset of someone who wants to purchase consumer electronics and what other places these people go to and what are their brand affinities like?
Sherlock AI (powered by Infinite Analytics) looks into all the people who visited consumer electronics stores in the month of October and connects the dots. Take a 3 minute journey and understand consumer mindset of electronics buyers analytically!
Gold: Dhanteras Dhamaka leading to 125% footfall surge
Did you know that jewelry stores’ visitation went up by 125% during the Dhanteras weekend? Sherlock AI analyzed all consumers who visited jewelry stores pan-India and revealed that though typical weekend footfall surges in Jewelry shops is around 16%, the Dhanteras weekend contributed to a whopping 125% surge! WHOA!
Indians have always preferred gold as an asset class and an investment vehicle. With Dhanteras being among the most auspicious occasions to buy gold, Indians did indeed flock to the ‘market’ to buy gold.
