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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 Schneier on Security
Identifying a Person Based on a Photo, LinkedIn and Etsy Profiles, and Other Internet Bread Crumbs
Interesting story of how the police can identify someone by following the evidence chain from website to website. According to filings in Blumenthal's case, FBI...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Relaunches Cortana without Alexa
Was initially impressed by the cooperation between Microsoft and Amazon, but admit I saw little from it. Why not not have a joint effort to provide assistant intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Nature of Visual Illusions
Always have been interested in visual illusions, and here a study of probably the most famous one. These gives us insight into how our brains and seeing apparatus...
From Computational Complexity
Winner of Ramsey Meme Contest
My REU program had a Ramsey Meme Contest. The winner was Saadiq Shaik with this entry: I Don't Always... I challenge my readers to come up with other Ramsey...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Introduces Watson Works with AI
Newly introduced:Watson WorksWork safe, work smart, and ensure the health and productivity of your people in a changing workplace ... Watson Works is a curated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marty the Robot at Stop&Shop
Good view of what they are doing with robots at Stop@Shop. Mostly to map and feed video images and alerts to spills. Will not talk to the shopper. ImpressiveMarty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blogger Being Updated
I have been alerted that the underlying Blogging capability here will be updated by the end of June. A quick test seems to show that no problems should occur,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oil and Gas use of AI Technology
Worked with this industry for a while. Here a good non-technical overview:Oil & Gas Industry Transforming Itself with the Help of AI By AI Trends StaffThe oil...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Not Self Driving Cars, But Robots that Could Drive cars?
Interesting and bold challenge. Build a robot that would autonomously drive cars. With vision, decision making, interaction with car systems. Adapting to...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Some Real and Some Virtual News
Gossip and more. Composite of , src1, src3 Jessica Deters, Izabel Aguiar, and Jacqueline Feuerborn are the authors of the paper, “The Mathematics of Gossip.” They...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithmic Design for Building
Algorithms both generating data and using data for the design and construction of buildings. Like managing pertinent metadata.Algorithms are designing betterSilvio...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value Creation
Good piece. Take care to carefully measure the value.The Value of Value creationBy Marc Goedhart and Tim Koller, McKinsey Quarterly ( link to PDF)ChallengesThis...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 20th 2020)
UCLA researchers have achieved widespread rejuvenation in old mice through blood plasma diluation, a relatively simple process. (…) these results establish broad...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Aibo Updated, will Greet You at the Door
Seems to be only assistant system left that makes a claim to being mobile and family friendly. Home oriented. With elements of a home pet emphasized. We visited...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patient Survey for Telemedicine
Useful to get some real experience from this event:Doctor.com's Patient Survey Reveals Surprising Trends About Telemedicine Adoption Amid ReopeningsPR NewswireJune...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Quality Images of Moving Objects
I recall having to solve this problem for diagnosing from images of manufacturing machine parts.Capturing Moving Subjects in Still-Life QualityEPFL News (Switzerland)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming ISSIP/CSG Talk: Robots in the Pandemic
Correspondent Jim Spohrer talks about robot tech in our pandemic futures. I will post about this and point to the transcript.ISSIP Speaker Series: COVID-19 &...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant and Duplex can Listen Better
This made me think a while about the implications. It does not necessarily imply a loss of privacy, these are the actions-skills that we accept as extensions to...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Washes Up on South African Beach
Fourteen feet long and 450 pounds. It was dead before it washed up. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
From Schneier on Security