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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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7-Eleven Seeks Japan Labor Efficiency
There are worker shortages in Japan, so 7-Eleven stores are experimenting with RFID tagging to eliminate or greatly simplify checkout, and thus decrease labor needs...
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Virtual Assistants Control GE Air Conditioning
Another example of voice control being pushed to common home devices that need control. A simple example. Been testing the idea in our homeDon’t get up to ...
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Linkedin Changes its Agreement with You
A look at how Microsoft is altering the Linkedin user agreement you are very likely to say OK to. Evan Schuman points out some of the risks. Linkedin is a place...
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Team Stress Levels
In the enterprise saw much lip service given to this kind of issue, but few solutions other than cautions, here an attempt at measure. In the HBR: An Early Warning...
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On the Future of Augmented Reality
Israel and Scoble in a Podcast on the near future of Augmented and Virtual reality. Suggesting that Apple is about to push this strongly. Via my colleague Walter...
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Smarter Manufacturing Robotics with Watson
Interesting play, had never thought of Watson in terms of Robotics. Note the wide variety of things ABB manufactures, which could lead to efficiency considerations...
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Oracle Wants Advanced Tech
Oracle looking to AI and VR initiatives.Oracle Launches New In-House 'Startup'The company wants to stay ahead of the tech game by working on new, cutting-edge initiatives...
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Cheap not Deep Learning is the Future
Had not heard of the term 'cheap-learning' before, but have been thinking of the concept for a long time. Building higher levels of abstraction is a matter of...
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Microsoft Channels Process for Intelligence
This sounds remarkably like using/building a process model for given tasks. We experimented with this do define and decompose jobs-tasks. Like the idea that...
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Smart Home Tracks Health
Great thought, but its still a bit of an effort to set things up just to turn the lights on and off. Our own smart home demonstrations made it clear that most...
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Thoughts on Data Engineering
All analytics is data engineering. Manipulating data content in context to achieve useful results, using a proven process.A Data Engineer's Guide To Non-Traditional...
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IBM Announces Watson Marketing Insights
Just announced, looked at this in beta form. IBM continues to apply Watson learning to different expertise domains, following retail applications. Likely to...
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Which ML Algorithms to Use?
A somewhat unusual thing to see from SAS. In the SAS blog, a cheat sheet for using machine learning algorithms for the beginner. Largely non technical. Nicely...
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Amazon Wants to Handle Your Subscription Replenishment
Pushing the subscription model used to be one of the biggest futurist conversations in CPG enterprise, I am sure the conversation continues. Assure your sales In...
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AI Driven Clothes Shopping
I think I have seen at least three recommender-engine driven apparel selection systems pitched to me, none have survived. This is a tough sell. Touch and 3D would...
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Sensor Filled Gloves
A prototype for gloves that contain health sensorsSensor-filled glove could help doctors take guesswork out of physical exams" .... Now, an interdisciplinary team...
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UPS Using Beacons for Accuracy
It sounds like the beacons are being used to get indoor accuracy to affirm location. And alert the system to misplacement. Reducing error. In ChainstoreAge: ...
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Editing Photos with Neural Networks
In NVidia Blog, quite interesting piece on generating new photos from collections of photos. In other words editing them. The article is quite technical, but...
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A Broad View of Amazon
Interesting view from CBInsights about Amazon. Pointer to a further strategy document. I agree, quite a breadth of directions by a former book seller. AmazonSeattle...
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