The International Monetary Fund (IMF) assesses the Artificial Intelligence (AI) readiness of 174 Countries. The report tracks 174 economies globally for Artificial Intelligence readiness.

 The Index classifies each country as an Advanced Economy (AE), Emerging Market Economy (EM), or Low-Income Country (LIC). Singapore (0.80), Denmark (0.78), and the United States (0.77) are among the highest-rated Advanced Economies. India, with a rating of 0.49, is categorized as an Emerging Market Economy and ranks 72nd out of 174 countries. Meanwhile, Bangladesh has a rating of 0.38 and ranks 113th, Sri Lanka has a rating of 0.43 and ranks 92nd, and China, with a rating of 0.63, ranks 31st.

Earlier this year, on January 14, the IMF published a blog based on their research paper, highlighting that AI could threaten 33 percent of jobs in Advanced Economies, 24 percent in Emerging Markets, and 18 percent in Low-Income Countries. They pointed out that AI will impact 40 percent of jobs worldwide, replacing some and complementing others(technology).

           AI USES 

Healthcare
AI has been particularly useful in the healthcare industry because it generates massive amounts of data to train with and enables algorithms to spot patterns faster than human analysts. It can be used to organize bed schedules, make a staff rotation, and provide medical information and diagnosis.

Medecision developed an algorithm to detect 8 variables in diabetes patients and determine if they require hospitalization.

Entertainment

Services like Netflix and Amazon use AI in everyday life by having algorithms analyze the user’s activity and compare it with other users’ activities to recommend shows or products. 

 The algorithms are becoming intelligent with time—to the extent of understanding that a user may want to buy a product as a gift and not for himself/herself, or that different family members have different watching preferences.

Finance
Financial services companies use AI-based natural language processing tools to analyze brand sentiment from social media platforms and provide actionable advice.

Fraud detection is an important application of AI in financial services. For example, Mastercard uses Decision Intelligence technology to analyze various data points and detect fraudulent transactions. It improves real-time approval accuracy and reduces false declines.

Data security
Cyber attacks are becoming a growing reality with the move to a digital world. There are also concerns about AI programs themselves turning against systems. Automatic exploit generation is a bot that can determine whether a software bug, may cause security issues, is exploitable. If the bot finds a vulnerability, it automatically secures it. AEG systems help develop automated signature generation algorithms that can predict the likelihood of cyberattacks.

Manufacturing

AI algorithms can influence the manufacturing supply chain. It detects the patterns of demand for products across geographies, socio economic segments, and time, and predicts market demand.

Automotive industry
Tesla introduced TeslaBot, an intelligent virtual assistant that allows users to interact with their car from their phone or desktop.

Uber AI Labs is working on developing self-driven cars with the help of the best engineers and scientists.