To commemorate the silver jubilee of FICO’s use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we asked FICO employees a question: What does the future of AI look like? The post below is one of the thought-provoking responses, from Shafi Rahman, a principal scientist at FICO, working in Bangalore. The most memorable scene in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey is when HAL 3000 turns off the life-support functions of the crew in an attempt to keep itself from getting disconnected. This was my first encounter with what we call artificial intelligence. Then in Terminator, we were introduced to Skynet, a neural network based AI, which raised an army of robots for self-preservation. Hollywood has always portrayed the future of AI in a dystopian, cataclysmic manner. In reality, I believe things will be different — benign and beneficial to the human-kind. In the last 10 years, we have seen huge revival... [Read More]
As artificial intelligence reaches new areas such as risk management in banking, explainable AI will become more important. That’s the message FICO’s Derek Dempsey gives in a video interview recorded with Compare the Cloud. Derek, a principal consultant with Fair Isaac Advisors who was named one of the Big Data 100 by DataIQ magazine in 2015, discusses the impact AI and machine learning have had in fraud detection, and the growing use in financial services. Risk management has greater requirements for explaining decisions, Derek says, and this will force AI developers to think differently. For more on this topic, read Scott Zoldi’s blog posts on explainable AI. Watch the video on Compare the Cloud
To commemorate the silver jubilee of FICO’s use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we asked FICO employees a question: What does the future of AI look like? The post below is one of the thought-provoking responses, from Sadat Nazrul, an analytic scientist at FICO, working in San Diego. Looking at the next 20 years, I see us moving well beyond the productivity enhancements AI has brought about so far. With the advent of AI, we will be seeing a renaissance in our own personal lives as well as society as a whole. Healthcare Today, our gadgets have the ability to monitor the number of steps we take, the rate of our heart beat, as well as the contents of our sweat. All this rich information allows a team of doctors, engineers and analysts to monitor our well-being and to maintain our peak performance. Similarly, with innovations in genomic sequencing... [Read More]
To commemorate the silver jubilee of FICO’s use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we asked FICO employees a question: What does the future of AI look like? The post below is one of the thought-provoking responses, from Chahm An, a lead analytic scientist at FICO, working in San Diego. Artificial intelligence, like human intelligence, uses observations from the past to learn a general model that can be used to make predictions about future similar occurrences. The future I see for AI is based on current work being done in this field, and grounded in what I saw 20 years ago, when I first began to study AI. What’s Really Accelerating AI? In 1997, and IBM’s Deep Blue had just defeated reigning world champion Garry Kasparov at the game of chess in what was seen as a landmark event of artificial intelligence surpassing a human champion at an intellectual challenge.... [Read More]
A company that solved an “unsolvable” wind farm optimization problem. An automaker that uses analytics to keep more delinquent customers in their cars. An airline that uses optimization throughout its business to improve customer service and efficiency. These are just some of the past winners of the FICO Decisions Awards – and now it’s time to find the next set of innovators. We’re looking for companies that are achieving outstanding success using FICO analytics and decision management solutions. Awards will be presented in six categories: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Customer Onboarding and Management Debt Management Decision Management Innovation Fraud Control Regulatory Compliance. Winners will receive recognition at FICO World, which will be held April 16-19, 2018, in Miami. Winning implementations will be featured in conference activities, and two representatives of each winning company will receive complimentary conference passes. Nominations are due September 1, and winners will be announced in... [Read More]
To commemorate the silver jubilee of FICO’s use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we asked FICO employees a question: What does the future of AI look like? The post below is one of the thought-provoking responses, from Imran Ali, a senior engineer in our Tools Department, working in Bangalore. “I propose to consider the question, Can machines think?” Artificial intelligence has come a long way since that opening statement was made by A. M. Turing in his seminal 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence. AI has become very popular because it has metamorphosed from being of theoretical interest to something that is creating value in business. To gain further success, AI has to answer an important question that every business has to answer. Consumers will ask, “You are good at what you do, but should I trust you?” Can I trust you with my money to trade with? Can... [Read More]
This is a guest post from Nikola Marcich with the Policy team at the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. Walking into Bernie Madoff’s home in 2005, you would not have found piles of money under a mattress, behind a sofa or in his garage. At the time, Madoff had been running an elaborate Ponzi scheme through the wealth management arm of his business that reached $65 million by the time of his arrest in 2008, deliberately hiding the money intricately within the financial system. Serving as Madoff’s primary bank for over two decades, JP Morgan was one of the culprits of Madoff’s fraudulent actions and money-laundering tactics. In their innocent incompetence to identify clear red flags about Madoff’s returns and file a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR), JP Morgan’s was fined $1.7 billion in 2014. JP Morgan’s fine highlights the... [Read More]
FICO has been named a Category Leader in IFRS 9 solutions by Chartis Research in its report IFRS 9 Technology Solutions: Market Update 2017. “Like other regulatory mandates of the past decade, IFRS 9 is another transformational event for all financial institutions (FIs),” the report states. “In all likelihood, it will reduce FIs’ profits and retained earnings, increase their loan loss provisions, and have a negative impact on their regulatory and economic capital. To mitigate these impacts, FIs will have to rely heavily on the rigor of their data management and the quality of their data, and on the application of Expected Credit Loss (ECL) modeling and overall governance.” The FICO® IFRS 9 Impairment Management Solution includes industry-leading predictive modeling for loss forecasting; software for high-speed model execution, loss reporting, process governance and “what-if” scenario analysis; and strategy consulting from advisors with extensive domain and analytics expertise. “Effectively addressing the challenges of this... [Read More]
African Bank, a large retail bank in South Africa, recently went through a large-scale restructuring in order to bring more efficiency, transparency and collaboration to the way it made decisions. Working with FICO, the bank applied a standards-based decision management methodology to fully modernize its decision system. Now that the new solution has been implemented, we spoke with Dawid Van Zyl, Program Executive of Credit Decisioning at African Bank, to learn more. Q: What challenges was African Bank facing with its existing credit decision process? Dawid: Our credit decision lifecycle was fragmented over different applications and teams. This was causing inefficiencies and missed opportunities for our executives to react to the market. We knew we needed to do a complete overhaul of the existing process in order to be effective and profitable. Q: How did you and the FICO team create a solution for this challenge? Dawid: The first step... [Read More]
In another sign of the growing use of the cloud for fraud protection, EnterCard — one of the leading Scandinavian finance companies — will use the FICO® Falcon® Platform to combat card fraud and communicate with its 1.7 million customers. EnterCard is upgrading to a cloud-based version of Falcon to protect customers in Sweden, Norway and Denmark from fraud. “The cloud-based version of Falcon gives us greater flexibility to serve our customers with better fraud protection,” said Yannick Leclerc, head of fraud in EnterCard Group. “We will have greater control over how we communicate with customers when fraud is suspected, which will help us improve the customer journey in a fraud context.” For more information, read our news release.
