Doctor’s: 3 Ways how AI and Machine Learning is going to Change your future!

Doctor’s: 3 Ways how AI and Machine Learning is going to Change your future!

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Introduce Yourself

Introduce Yourself

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“My Experiment with Truth”​ in Process Automation!

“My Experiment with Truth” in Process Automation!

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Financial Data – Machine Learning Approach!

Financial Data – Machine Learning Approach!

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A Diagnostic Approach – Blockchain for Environmental and Social Governance (ESG)

A Diagnostic Approach – Blockchain for Environmental and Social Governance (ESG)

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Nature Prefers disorders (Entropy)! We to tie them back as clusters called ‘linking’​!

Nature Prefers disorders (Entropy)! We to tie them back as clusters called ‘linking’!

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The second machine age! – Do we need a new Education system?

The second machine age! – Do we need a new Education system?

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Financial Data – Machine Learning Approach!

Financial Data – Machine Learning Approach!

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Design thinking solution for human resource management!

Design thinking solution for human resource management!

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The second machine age! – Do we need a new Education system?

The current education system was developed over 2000 years back, when knowledge and data was scarce resources, only available in few books and with some experienced people. If you have seen the popular web series of “Game of Thrones”, you must have seen some of the books could only be accessed by the kings, riches, and wealthy. Kids had to go to the libraries and schools learn from the knowledge available in those books. Many of them, we did not even know are fictions or actual stories. The authoritarian teacher’s job was to impart the knowledges to their student so they can move from far away villages, to get some job at a factory in a small town and work until their retirement!

These days, the problem is not scarce resources or knowledge, it’s just a ‘click’ away, irrespective of if you are sitting in Congo or a small village Sweden or India. The problem is now reversed, we have so much data and knowledge, we do not even know which one to consume and which one not. Are we still not surprised, when we see our kids going to school carrying a big school bag but their cell phone has quick access to all the data? In the evening, when they try to mug up “what is crusade” and “who is the president of United States” or “learning programming in C++” or “learning Sanskrit on Chinese”.

Just take a deeper look now, why do our kids need to learn “what is crusade” and “who is the president of United States”, when it’s just a click away anyway 24*7? Most of the time, when they go to school, they already know much more than what they learn in school. When we are in the beginning of the second machine age using AI, neural network, deep learning in 2019, by the time, they come out of the school, either C++ is obsolete or the AI is writing the computer codes much better than humans, so the skills they learnt for 20+ years, are obsolete. ‘Google Translate’ is translating so flawlessly from few words or even gestures that we don’t need to teach our kids to learn German, Sanskrit, Chinese, or French in 2030!

So, what do we teach our kids? The basic skills that made us human! We are talking about what people says, 4Cs of 21st century.

Þ  Critical thinking

Þ  Creativity

Þ  Collaboration

Þ  Communication

Critical thinking is all about solving problems.

Creativity teaches students to think outside the box.

Collaboration shows students how to work together to achieve a common goal.

Communication lets students learn how to best convey their ideas.

You may find some variation on the wording for these skills, but they all encapsulate the same ideas. When you are not sure of the future skill and you just wanted to be agile, and future ready rather than learning something that we know are going to get obsolete! 

Abhijit Ghosh is the CEO of StanShare, in addition to an enthusiastic learner with deep understanding of both data, technology, and concurrent people management policies and practices. An exceptional achiever, well-rounded, multilingual, culturally aware professional with a strong background in building and leading multi-discipline, geographically dispersed teams to manage complex operations and automation. Specializes in highly cross functional collaborations with Operations, Finance, HR, Data Management in financial services industry. He has over 17 years of hands-on management experience in planning, creating, data products and solutions through design thinking. Extremely skilled strategist for robotics and cognitive automation solutions.

Robotic Process Automation, UI, and Rise of Bots….

When I started my career with a data company, we used to collect data points from various documents into Microsoft excel spreadsheets and after the quality checks, the data used to be uploaded into the SQL database as batch file. The chances of errors were high, as at times, Excel used to replace zeros in the front unless, the cell formats were text, and the spell checks bare minimum.

After few years, we got our own UI or tool to enter data that had all the inbuilt error checks. It was in ASP or similar format simple five shades of grey, page that looked like more of a Microsoft Access form. We were happy with the progress, after all, we are having out first tool.

Years passed by, and our expectations were growing higher and higher, we started working with the developers to add some jazzy functions into the tool using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) so, we can drag and drop data points from one corner of the monitor to the other. In personal life, we still did not see a touch screen phone by then. Isn’t it pretty cool?

Few more years passed by and we started finding problem with the AJAX systems, data items got stuck to the mouse pointers or got dropped at a wrong place. We definitely needed a new technology!

We designed a set of cool looking apps this time using .NET frame work. Those tools were super cool and we could change the color of the buttons depending on our persona, smoothly drag and drop large data items, used two computer monitors instead of one. This lasted for the longest time around five plus years and then came so called RPA or robotic process automation.

When we started adding bots on the top of the tools, like every other people working in similar industries got stuck again! Designing bots on an ASP page was much easier than creating bots on an app! On top of it, your bots, if they used your app, can go only be fast as the underlying app is! After, so many years the apps were not faster as before any way. So, what’s the solution?

We took two approaches, in one, we tried to downgrade our tools to ASP/HTML pages, like it was 15 years back and in the second approach we bypassed the tools to use the Microsoft Excel files, so the bots can directly upload it to the database!

Why do we need to design an UI, where there is no user? If bots are the users, isn’t the.txt, xml, JASON much better? Although, we lost lot of data validations that were built into those apps through years of experience, but we could add our own anomaly checks programmatically. So, at the end of the day the concept of UI is going as the users are no more human!

When I keep thinking about the cycle, what comes to our mind is, isn’t it a way of going back to square one? In an ideal scenario, we should have skipped creating any apps/tools and directly ingests those Excels programmatically through scripts, into the database? Is it just a human nature to create a problem first and then try to solve it and call it a win?

I don’t know the answer to this, if you know, please feel free to comment. May be this is the last date for UIs…. The good question is (good questions never have answers!), If we auto ingest data from text, directly through bots to the backend tables, through a script (in near future through AI) , who do I need RPA? Isn’t it a simple auto extraction and standardization process? 

Disclaimer: The views expressed are mine and don’t necessarily reflect those of my past or present employer.

Abhijit Ghosh is the CEO of StanShare, in addition to an enthusiastic learner with deep understanding of both data, technology, and concurrent people management policies and practices. An exceptional achiever, well-rounded, multilingual, culturally aware professional with a strong background in building and leading multi-discipline, geographically dispersed teams to manage complex operations and automation. Specializes in highly cross functional collaborations with Operations, Finance, HR, Data Management in financial services industry. He has over 17 years of hands-on management experience in planning, creating, data products and solutions through design thinking. Extremely skilled strategist for robotics and cognitive automation solutions.