AI and insurance in broad strokes
AI is the imitation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. In the insurance industry, some people believe that AI is set to revolutionise the customer experience by enabling insurers to provide products and service levels that are more aligned with today’s customer expectations.
According to Hoggarth, the use of AI in insurance should be able to assist with the following:
• Providing simpler, faster, more transparent and more affordable insurance products;
• Allowing insurance providers and other organisations to automate many tasks and processes that may have required human intervention in the past;
• Providing a range of tools and technologies that can understand contextual human speech or text, and reasoning algorithms that can create predictive models and anticipate behaviour, and finally
• Enabling the use of friendly chatbots to help customers with inquiries and questions.
A quick look at the history of AI
“If we look at the history of AI, it begins in the 1950s,” explained Hoggarth. “Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptoanalyst and computer scientist, proposed the Turing Test in 1950, which is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.
“In 1955, computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term ‘artificial intelligence’ to describe the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.”
Today, said Hoggarth, AI forms a significant part of the modern world in which we live, and includes the use of applications and services such as Waze, Google Maps, and Uber, that assist people with travelling to their destinations timeously; and Apple’s virtual assistant Siri, and Amazon’s Alexa—to name but a few.
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