Future Automation: Changes To Lives And To Businesses

by Timothy E Carone

Overview

remove Listen to Timothy Carone, one of our authors of 'Future Automation', on CNN Ryan Noble's latest podcast 'Rigged Election/Wikileaks fallout' here - cnn.it/2ez7NRf remove The world overstates the present fear of future risk. Autonomous systems are our future. One day we will wake up to some event that will make it clear that the robots have taken over but just not in the way we always thought. Robots take many forms. A driverless car is a robot. A drone over Afghanistan is a robot. Siri is a robot as are high frequency trading systems. And the autonomous systems that Amazon uses to manage their warehouses and logistics are collections of robots acting in concert. In short, robots, or autonomous systems, are slowly taking over the execution of key processes that run our businesses and our lives. We define an autonomous system to be an integration at the data and process level of three components: sensors or the Internet of Things that collect data; big data that stores and processes data; and artificial intelligence, which takes the information, makes decisions, and acts. On occasions, we add in actuators, which are motors that are responsible for moving or controlling a mechanism or system. Other words for an autonomous system with actuators are 'robot,' 'driverless car,' and 'unmanned drone.'This book describes the coming disruptions caused by autonomous systems (AS), which are unique blends of AI, analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). An example of an AS is a driverless car. Analytics is the key element here that is still receiving scant attention as compared to the advances in AI and IoT. This book shows how disruption across many industries caused by the presence of AS will be pervasive and that analytics, which is created by the IoT and other sensors, provides the content from which AI can make decisions. These decisions are no longer the purview of humans only. AS will transcend what machines currently do. We will show how the impact of AS will start to manifest in the coming years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813142329
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/20/2018
Series:	Advances And Opportunities With Big Data And Analytics , #2
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

About the Author ix

Preface xi

Chapter 1 Autonomous Systems 1

Chapter 2 Analytics 37

Chapter 3 The Internet of Things 57

Chapter 4 Artificial Intelligence 71

Chapter 5 Autonomous Systems Enablers 91

Chapter 6 The Global Food Supply 103

Chapter 7 Logistics 123

Chapter 8 Financial Services 137

Chapter 9 Manufacturing 157

Chapter 10 Healthcare 173

Chapter 11 Speculations 201