Mentioned in 70 AI use cases across 20 industries
This is like having a smart assistant watch all your videos and automatically create a searchable index of what’s said, who appears, where logos show up, and key moments—so teams can quickly find and reuse the right clips without manually scrubbing through footage.
This is like a smart weather-and-power crystal ball: it looks at recent weather and production data and uses machine learning to predict how much solar and wind power will be generated in the next few hours.
This is like a smart mechanic for fleets and industrial equipment. It constantly “listens” to machines, spots early warning signs of failure, and tells you when to service them before they break down.
Think of a smart city as a city with a digital nervous system. AI is the brain that helps it see traffic jams, power usage, crime hotspots, and public service demand in real time, then quietly adjusts lights, signals, and services to keep everything running smoother and safer.
Think of this as a field guide to all the ways computers can learn from medical and pharma data—like a tireless junior doctor and data analyst rolled into one—to help spot diseases earlier, pick better treatments, and run hospitals and clinical trials more efficiently.
This is like giving fraud investigators a super-smart digital assistant that can scan huge amounts of payments, claims, and case files in real time and yell “this looks suspicious” long before a human could spot the pattern.
Think of this as a smart control tower for mining and other heavy industries that watches your environmental, social, and operational data in one place and uses AI to flag risks and opportunities before they impact production or reputation.
Think of this as a super-smart test analyst that reads your SAP setup, business processes, and change logs and then writes, updates, and runs SAP test cases for you—so your team mainly reviews and approves instead of building everything by hand.
This is like giving the power grid a very smart weather forecast, but instead of predicting rain, it predicts how much electricity people will use so green energy sources can be used more efficiently.
This is like giving city traffic planners a supercharged crystal ball: AI watches patterns from cameras, sensors, and crash data to predict where and when roads are most dangerous, then suggests fixes such as changing signal timing, speed limits, or enforcement focus.
This is like giving a government benefits program a smart security camera for money flows: instead of waiting until money is stolen or misused and then trying to claw it back, AI watches transactions in real time and flags suspicious behavior before the money leaves the door.
This is like having a warning light on your customer base: it looks at past customer behavior and contracts and predicts who is likely to cancel their phone/internet service soon, so you can reach out before they leave.
Think of this as a digital mechanic that constantly listens to your vehicles, trains, or equipment, predicts when something is about to break, and tells you exactly when to bring it in for service so you avoid breakdowns and warranty fights.
This is like putting a smart ‘check-engine’ light on every critical asset in an oil & gas operation. Instead of waiting for something to break, software constantly watches sensor data and warns you in advance when a pump, compressor, or pipeline component is likely to fail, so you can fix it during planned downtime.
Think of this as putting a “smart brain” on top of every critical piece of oil & gas equipment. It constantly listens to sensors, learns what ‘normal’ looks like, and warns you before something breaks so you can fix it at the best possible time.
This is about using AI as a super-smart control center for factories and supply chains. It watches machines, inventory, orders, and logistics in real time, then predicts problems before they happen and suggests the best way to run production so you waste less time, material, and money.
Think of this as a super-watchful digital guardian angel for banks. It constantly looks at payments, credit decisions and customer behavior to spot anything risky or suspicious in real time – much faster and more accurately than human teams alone.
This is like having an early-warning radar for unhappy phone or internet customers. The AI watches usage and support patterns and raises a flag when someone looks likely to cancel, so your team can reach out before they actually leave.
This is like an early‑warning system for phone and internet providers: it studies past customers who left and learns patterns so it can flag which current customers are most likely to cancel soon, giving the company time to intervene with offers or service improvements.
This is like giving doctors a super-smart assistant that has read millions of medical cases and guidelines, then quietly whispers, “Here are the likely diagnoses and what to check next” while the doctor is still seeing the patient—especially to catch diseases earlier than usual.
This is like giving every clinician a smart medical co‑pilot that can instantly search the trusted UpToDate knowledge base, summarize what matters for a specific patient, and present it in plain, actionable language at the bedside or in the EHR.
Imagine your whole supply chain—factories, warehouses, trucks, and suppliers—running like a smart GPS for your business. It constantly checks traffic (demand), fuel (inventory), and roadblocks (disruptions) and then suggests the best route and timing so you deliver on time with less waste and lower cost.
Think of this as a smart thermometer for customer feelings. It reads reviews, tweets, and comments at scale and tells you whether people are happy, angry, or worried about your products and brand.
Imagine a 24/7 security guard for your telecom network who has read every past fraud case, watches all current activity in real time, and can explain in plain language why something looks suspicious and what to do next. That’s what generative AI brings to fraud prevention: it doesn’t just flag ‘weird’ behavior, it also helps investigate, summarize, and respond to it much faster.
Think of this as a 24/7 digital fraud detective that reviews every insurance claim, spots suspicious patterns humans might miss, and flags risky cases for investigators before money goes out the door.
This is like turning a farm into a ‘smart factory’ for crops and livestock: sensors measure soil, water, weather, and plant health; AI and machine learning learn from this data; then the system tells farmers exactly when and how much to irrigate, fertilize, or treat plants and animals, reducing waste and improving yields.
Think of this like a supercharged weather crystal ball built specifically for power markets: it predicts very detailed weather patterns that drive electricity supply and demand so traders can buy and sell power and gas at the right time and price.
This is like having an AI assistant watch a live TV channel or livestream for you and take notes in real time—who is speaking, what’s being said, topics, scenes, and key moments—so people and systems can react instantly instead of waiting for manual review later.
Think of it as a 24/7 security guard that watches every phone call, text, and transaction in real time and raises a flag when something looks like fraud, even if no human has seen that pattern before.
This is like giving every hotel guest their own smart concierge who talks, remembers their preferences, and coordinates with hotel systems from check‑in to check‑out – but it’s software, not a person.
Think of this as turning today’s security analysts into ‘AI-augmented guardians’: people who use smart tools that can spot cyberattacks much faster than humans, while also learning how to control and question those tools so they don’t make dangerous mistakes.
Think of this as a control tower that uses AI to watch over all your IT systems, predict issues, and help fix them automatically before they impact customers.
This is like putting a super-fast, super-smart coach and statistician inside the live UFC broadcast. It watches the fight in real time, analyzes every strike, movement, and situation, and instantly tells fans what’s happening and why it matters, in simple on-screen insights.
This is like an AI control tower for your IT systems that constantly watches logs, metrics, and alerts, spots issues before humans notice them, and suggests or triggers fixes automatically.
Think of AIOps platforms as a 24/7 AI control tower for your IT systems. They watch logs, metrics, and alerts from all your tools, spot patterns humans would miss, and automatically fix or route problems before they become outages.
Think of AIOps as an always‑on control tower for your IT systems that watches all the logs, alerts and performance metrics, spots issues early, and suggests or triggers fixes automatically—like an experienced operations team that never sleeps and reads everything at once.
Think of AIOps as an AI control tower watching all your IT systems 24/7. It reads all the logs, alerts, tickets, and metrics, spots patterns humans miss, and then either recommends or automatically takes actions to keep systems healthy and prevent outages.
This is like giving every doctor an always‑on digital colleague that has read every medical textbook, guideline, and journal article, and can quickly suggest possible diagnoses and treatments while the doctor is seeing a patient.
Think of this as a smart GPS for healthcare: it helps doctors and patients follow a single, evidence-based route from first symptom through treatment and follow-up, using AI to give the right guidance at the right moment in each setting of care.
This is like giving every sports fan a smart digital concierge that learns what they love—seats, merch, highlights, stats—and quietly adjusts the entire game-day and at-home experience around them.
This is like a smart farming advisor that looks at past harvests, weather, and soil data to suggest which crop to plant on a field and how much yield to expect, instead of farmers relying only on experience and guesswork.
Think of this as a smart co‑pilot for nurses: it watches patient data, compares it to what’s happened with thousands of similar patients before, and then suggests what to watch out for and what actions might be needed—while the nurse stays in full control.
Think of AI in oil and gas as a super-smart control room operator that never sleeps. It constantly watches wells, pipes, and equipment data, predicts when something will break, and suggests how to squeeze more oil and gas out of the ground at lower cost and risk.
This is like giving your power plant or energy equipment a “check engine” light that warns you days or weeks before something breaks, instead of after it fails. Sensors continually watch vibration, temperature, pressure, etc., and machine‑learning models learn the normal patterns so they can flag early signs of trouble.
This is like having a very smart auditor that has learned from years of historical tax returns. It scans new returns and flags the suspicious ones that don’t “look right” based on patterns seen in past fraud cases, so human investigators focus only on the riskiest filings.
This is like an always-on AI control tower for your IT systems that watches all your apps, servers, and cloud services, spots issues before users notice, and tells your teams exactly what to fix and why.
This is about using open source AI tools as a smart control room for IT operations: the AI watches logs, metrics, and alerts from your systems, spots issues early, and can even fix some of them automatically—without needing an army of engineers staring at dashboards all day.
Think of a Security Operations Center as an airport control tower watching thousands of planes (devices, users, apps) at once. Traditional tools show you every single radar blip and alarm; humans get overwhelmed and miss real threats. AI- and ML-powered SIEM act like an assistant that learns normal flight patterns, filters out the noise, and flags only the suspicious flights that may be hijacked — and often does it in real time.
Think of today’s big AI models as brilliant general doctors who know a little about everything but aren’t yet safe or precise enough to treat complex, high‑risk patients. This paper is about how to retrain and constrain those general doctors so they can safely become top‑tier specialists in specific medical tasks, like reading scans, summarizing patient records, or supporting treatment decisions.
This is like giving European police a supercharged search and pattern-spotting engine that can sift through huge piles of digital information—messages, photos, travel records, financial data—to flag suspicious links between people, places, and events that humans would struggle to see in time.
This is like giving your company a super‑listener that reads what customers write (emails, chats, reviews, social posts) and instantly tells you if they’re happy, angry, or confused—at large scale and in real time.
Think of AIOps on AWS as putting an autopilot on your IT operations. It watches logs, metrics, and alerts across your cloud systems 24/7, learns what “normal” looks like, and then automatically flags problems, finds root causes faster, and can even fix some issues without a human jumping in.
Think of it as a “check engine” light on steroids for jets, ships, and vehicles: AI constantly watches sensor data and maintenance logs and warns commanders *before* something breaks, so they can fix it during downtime instead of in the middle of a mission.
Think of this as a smart co-pilot for buildings: it watches how your facilities are used, how equipment behaves, and what work orders come in, then suggests what to fix first, when to schedule maintenance, and how to run the building cheaper and smoother.
This is like a supercharged weather crystal ball built with AI, tailored for people trading electricity and gas. Instead of just saying whether it will rain, it predicts the kind of weather details that move energy prices and grid demand, faster and often more accurately than traditional forecasts.
Think of this as a ‘medical weather forecast’ system powered by AI: it looks at a huge mix of patient data (labs, scans, genetics, history) to predict who is likely to get which disease and which treatment is most likely to work for each person.
Think of a city where every bus, traffic light, and parking space can talk to each other in real time, and an AI ‘traffic conductor’ continuously listens and adjusts things so people and goods move faster and more safely with less waste.
Think of a bank’s AI like a super-fast junior loan officer that reviews thousands of applications a day. This paper is about putting clear rules, guardrails, and audits around that junior officer so it doesn’t secretly treat some groups of customers worse than others, even by accident.
This is about using machine learning as a smart ‘check engine’ light for factories and vehicles. Instead of waiting for a part to fail or doing maintenance on a fixed calendar, models watch sensor data (vibration, temperature, voltage, etc.) and warn you ahead of time when something is likely to break so you can fix it before it causes downtime.
Think of AIOps as an always-on "control tower" for your IT systems that watches all logs, alerts, and metrics at once, spots real problems in the noise, and suggests or triggers fixes before users feel the pain.
Think of a modern power utility as an enormous, complex train set: thousands of tracks, switches, and trains (power plants, lines, and customers) all moving at once. AI is like a smart traffic controller that watches everything in real time, predicts where problems will happen, and automatically reroutes and reschedules to keep the system running safely, cheaply, and reliably.
Imagine giving your software tester a super-smart assistant that can read requirements, write test cases, suggest missing checks, and even help explain bugs—just by talking to it in natural language. This paper surveys how those assistants, powered by large language models like ChatGPT, are being used in software testing and what still goes wrong.
This is like giving every customer a smart digital helper that can chat with them 24/7, answer common questions, and solve simple problems without needing a human agent each time.
This is like giving your call center or helpdesk a smart ear that listens to what customers say (emails, chats, social posts) and instantly tells you if they’re happy, angry, or worried, using prebuilt AI from cloud providers.
This is like hiring a smart mechanic that constantly listens to all your vehicles and equipment, predicts what’s about to break, and schedules repairs before anything actually fails or delays service.
This is like a super-smart recipe helper for cosmetics chemists: it analyzes huge amounts of ingredient and formula data to suggest greener, more sustainable product recipes that still meet performance and safety standards.
Think of Azure AI Video Indexer as an AI librarian for all your videos. It automatically watches every video, recognizes people, objects, brands, spoken words, and emotions, and then turns that into searchable labels and timelines so your teams can instantly find the exact moments they need instead of scrubbing through hours of footage.
Think of this as a specialist AI toolkit for retailers and consumer packaged goods brands that helps them better understand shoppers, predict demand, and personalize experiences across stores and ecommerce—like having a data-driven co-pilot for merchandising, marketing, and operations.
Imagine your entire IT environment—servers, networks, apps, cloud services—constantly watched by a smart assistant that never sleeps. It reads all the logs, alerts, tickets, and performance data, spots early warning signs, figures out what’s really important, suggests fixes, and in many cases can trigger automated responses before users even notice a problem.
Imagine giving your fraud investigators a tireless digital assistant that reads billions of transactions, emails, and claims every day, flags anything that “looks off,” and explains why it’s suspicious so humans can step in before the money is gone.