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Disrupting Traditional HRM with Ai

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" Artificial Intelligence in HR: a No-brainier,   This is basically good news for Human Resources and for your business. Usually HR is one step behind in the digital transformation and AI now offers the chance to catch up. AI can help eliminate repetitive tasks, accelerate the search for talent, reduce employee attrition and improve employee engagement. The algorithms train themselves to simulate human behavior and to re-imagine workers experience. AI reacts faster in helping draw out the insights and inferences that might otherwise take reams of manpower or stay uncovered at all. " Taken from :  https://www.pwc.at/de/publikationen/verschiedenes/artificial-intelligence-in-hr-a-no-brainer.pdf Every organization has a human resource management solution. With the whole cloud shift most of the HRM applications run on a cloud environment. Many SAAS vendors provide comprehensive HRM solutions which pretty much covers all of the business cases & rules to manage an organ

First ever Micro:bit hackathon in Sri Lanka

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It was such an inspiring event to be part of. It was a honor to take part in this event as a judge to witness both schools & university students showcasing their ideas and creations. This is what democratizing technology and knowledge is all about. Its about giving the power and knowledge to each and everyone in this little island and letting everyone dream big about the future. I hope to engage in more events and workshops around the country in the future.

AMAZON ALEXA INTEGRATED TO MICROSOFT COGNITIVE LUIS & Q&A

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In the Early Days voice assistants were only good to know about the weather and set your alarm clock, but now with the rapid development of cognitive conversational Ai and the accuracy of the hardware devices, voice interaction is geared up to a whole new set of usecases for businesses. Just take the below example where a bank has developed an alexa skill set so that customers can interact with the bank without even visiting a branch  link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0uRok35EF8  Our requirement was the same, we needed to build an alexa skill set for a customer to handle their inquires and build integrations to pull & push information from back end financial applications. Writing alexa skill sets from ground up takes a considerable amount of effort and time. since we had already deployed an Ai chat bot build on top of Microsoft Cognitive , LUIS, Q&A and the bot framework it made perfect sense of integrating the ALEXA skill set to the Microsoft Cognitive engine.