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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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Can We Trust Our Impressive AI Language Models?
As usual an excellent, heavily linked and considerable and serious piece by Irving, below just an intro, ldo ink-through...Irving Wladawsky-BergerA collection of...
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Cryptocurrency Meltdown
Why cryptocurrencies have gone from the next hot thing to a full-on meltdownJune 17, 2022 5:00 AM ET, David Gura The cryptocurrency world is in chaos. Just...
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Should Analytics Drive Category Planning? AI Approaches
Classic problem of category planning, which we worked with closely ... Using AI methods ... More links at article below.Should analytics drive category planning...
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Closer Autonomous Vehicular
Research Brings Safer Autonomous Vehicles a Step CloserUniversity of Surrey (U.K.), June 9, 2022Scientists at the U.K.'s University of Surrey have brought safer...
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FAST Chinese Radio Telescope Detects Alien Signals
Noted comparision to US Arecebo Radio telescope, recently damaged. Good complex data gathering example. Chinese Scientists Might Have Detected Signals From...
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Are Blockchain and Decentralized Cloud Making Much Headway?
-Always like indicative measures of use, could use more than there is here. Are Blockchain and Decentralized Cloud Making Much Headway?There continues to be chatter...
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Preserving Culture
More from the world of war. What if this had been done in WWII, other wars?Ukrainians Use 3D Technology to Preserve Cultural Artifacts By CNN. June 13, 2022Civilians...
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The Meta Virtual Bar Experience
Reminds me of some of the silliness of Second Life, a decade plus ago. Is this different? Or is it no sillier than most advertisement? ACM TECHNEWSBelly Up,...
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A Basic Robotic task, Rummaging?
Task of everyday life.Robot Can Find Keys in a Bag by Listening as It RummagesNew Scientist, Jeremy Hsu, June 13, 2022.Stanford University's Maximilian Du and colleagues...
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Using the Craft of the Pitch
Having worked with a company that was well known for pitches of all sorts. Persuasion, Hollywood style in Strategy-Business Professors Peter Desberg and Jeffrey...
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Once Again: Smart Shopping Carts
Experimented with similar approaches in the 90s in our retail labs. Will it work now? Still needs a really clear reason to play.Will smart shopping carts transform...
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Next Generation Weather Reporting/Prediction
We now all have increasingly good phone based weather systems. Adding better sensors.Next-Generation Weather Reporting: Versatile, Flexible, Economical Sensors...
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Calgary to become Canada Quantum City Hub
Canada using regional hubs for emerging tech. ACM TECHNEWSAlberta Investing C$23 Million Toward U of C's Quantum City, By Calgary Herald (Canada), June 14, 2022...
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An AI Can Invent in the US?
Related to some of the work I did with the DOD on intellectual property definition and rights. How will this influence use? How will the invention be assigned...
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Metaverse, Reality and Myth
We worked with the Metaverse in some of its earliest forms, like Second Life. And integrated it with gaming systems. Wrote about all that here. Probing reality...
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Seeking Hyperautomation?
Should be started by addressing key processes. Automating and checking the results, while putting in place a means of re-checking the results over time. Schedule...
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Simulating a Faster Path to Quantum Computing
Impressed by the number of efforts underway regarding quantum ...Simulating a Faster Path to QuantumBy Tim Hornyak, Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 14, 2022 in...
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How Do Quantum Computers Work?
Here a non technical view, intro here, more at the link: What Is Quantum Entanglement? Skip the heady and abstract physics lectures. Let’s talk about socks By...
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Having Your Very Own Digital Twin
Beyond Alexa or Meta Avatars. Likely healthcare applications early on. New realm of plug in simulations to model the possibilities. Why you may have a thinking...
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