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Montreal-made website uses AI to show impacts of climate change on any address
October 14, 2021 Tara Deschamps - THE CANADIAN PRESSTORONTO – Imagine Parliament Hill blanketed in orange skies, floodwaters climbing the sides of BC Place stadium or a thick layer of smog fogging the view of Halifax from Citadel Hill. These are all scenes depicted on a website published…
Claims talent spread thin? No worries: digitize your claims triage
December 5, 2019 by David GambrillWith talent spread thin in greying claims departments, insurers are looking to use AI to help digitize their claims triage process and other workflows. Officially, it’s called “intelligent process automation” (IPA),” a combination of workflow processes, automation and artificial intelligence…
What insurance executives fear will make them go out of business in 5 years
November 27, 2019 by Jason ContantForget about attracting talent, keeping up with rapid change, or complying with a myriad of regulations – what’s really keeping insurance executives up at night is scaling artificial intelligence (AI) for their business. According to a recent report from Accenture,…
Focus on these three areas when developing AI best practices
September 17, 2019 by Jason ContantFinancial institutions looking to adopt and develop best practices on the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) should focus on three areas: explainability, bias and diversity, experts say. A new TD Bank Group survey of 1,200 Canadians found that a…
How AI can help shape a more effective disaster response
June 7, 2019 by Jason ContantArtificial intelligence (AI) should be used not only to predict what will happen, but to shape and influence that outcome, the president of IBM Canada said Wednesday. “Predicting it is good, but the value that you get as an enterprise…
How AI can connect the dots between your systems
April 26, 2019 by Jason ContantArtificial intelligence (AI) should be used to “connect the dots” between different data silos and decisions made within an insurance company, Charles Dugas, head of insurance at Element AI, said last week. The goal is to develop a system that…
How Intact is promoting Big Data and actuarial training
January 21, 2019 by Jason ContantCanada’s largest insurer has teamed up with a Quebec university to establish two new chairs in artificial intelligence (AI) and actuarial science. Intact Financial Corporation and Université Laval announced Friday: The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)/Intact Financial Corporation…
Why future AI will involve less data
January 14, 2019 by Jason ContantMachines and applications with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will soon rely less on bottom-up big data and more on top-down reasoning that more closely resembles the way humans approach problems and tasks, Accenture said Monday. “We will have top-down systems…
One way of predicting whether a computer will take your job
June 15, 2018 by Greg MeckbachDespite a general consensus that many insurance tasks traditionally performed by humans will soon be done by computers, software still lacks some key human attributes, speakers said Wednesday at an industry panel. “If you are good at following and memorizing…
Is investing in AI worth it for Canadian insurance carriers?
June 12, 2018 by Jason ContantWhile the vast majority (94%) of Canadian insurance professionals surveyed believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will transform the insurance industry, the jury is still out on whether carriers are receiving a return on investment from analytics yet. Insurance Nexus released…
Patience urged of insurers who don’t see value in their early AI investments
June 5, 2018 by Jason ContantDespite all the hype about artificial intelligence (AI), and the significant investment in it, most global insurers don’t think they are getting value from their investment. In fact, 85 per cent of more than 1,000 global executives polled by McKinsey…
Here’s a way small brokerages can afford AI
June 4, 2018 by Jason ContantBudget may not be a big concern for larger companies looking to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into their operations, but is AI cost-prohibitive for small, local brokerages? “I don’t think you need a massive budget to do some of this…