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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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistant IOT Regulation
Specifics of the IOT aspects would seem to be beyond these, and to any assistant, depending on the definition of an IOT.Siri, Alexa Targeted as E.U. Probes Internet...
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Automatically Generating Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Can be expected that many current machine learning techniques will move towards automation. Papers mentioned are worth looking at.DeepMind’s AI automatically generates...
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Pandemic Shopping Habits
An interesting peek into corporate bahavior.Our pandemic shopping habits are here to stay. Brands are racing to adapt By Hanna Ziady CNN Business Three days a...
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The Industrial Internet Consortium
Was just reminded of the Industrial Internet Consortium. Has some interesting documents within.THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET CONSORTIUM: A GLOBAL NOT-FOR-PROFIT PARTNERSHIP...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Open for 2021 Microsoft Research Fellowships
Nominations are now open for the 2021 Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship and Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. Doctoral students must be nominated by the...
From Schneier on Security
On the Twitter Hack
Twitter was hacked this week. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the...
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A Look at Transfer Learning
Good generalized look at the concept of Transfer LearnigEverything you need to know about transfer learning in AI in TNWToday, artificial intelligence programs...
From insideHPC
UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation Breaks Data Bottlenecks
In this compelling use case provided by our friends over at HPC storage solution provider Panasas, we look at how the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation...
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Facebook Reveals Holographic Optics for Thin, Light VR Headsets
Technically interesting next step via Facebook. Still apparently in early stages. Facebook Reveals Holographic Optics for Thin, Light VR HeadsetsVentureBeatJeremy...
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AI, CoronaVirus and Investing
I am guessing probably because most learning models depend on machine learning, and the data is not there to predict rare events. A classic caution for any AIEven...
From Computational Complexity
Erdos-Turan for k=3 is True!
(All of the math in this post is summarized (without proofs) in a writeup by Erik Metz and myself which you can find here. It is a pdf file so you can click onGil...
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Sankey Diagrams for Visualization
A reader reminded me that I had posted on the Sankey Diagram, a form of 'pie' chart with room for lots of relationships. A kind of concept diagram too. Even...
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Virtual Try Ons
An idea with a long history that we also examined as part of a broader smart-store effort. Would not say it has been generally successful to date, but with increased...
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Has AI Lived up to its Hype?
I say No and Yes. No because it cannot live up to the implied magic of the term AI. People still expect it to do far more than it can do currently. I hear...
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AI Agents Learning to Communicate
Machines learning and adapting using language. As suggested,the environment/context is also important.AI agents can learn to communicate effectively by University...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Mathematical Search
A flying start from nearby Rochester Anurag Agarwal and Richard Zanibbi are tenured faculty in Mathematics and Computer Science, respectively, at RIT. They partner...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
Weapons of Math Destruction has been out for a couple of years now and it is one of those books that a lot of people reference. I finally got around to reading...
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Amazon Alexa-Live Next Week
Am an invited remote participant at the Amazon Skill Developer event: Alexa-Live on July 22 next week. In particular to represent a project with voice assistant...
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Capital One's AI Assistant
Had not seen this assistant example before. Much more at the link.How Capital One’s AI assistant achieved 99% NLU accuracyVB Staff in VentureBeatLike almost every...
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