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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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Optimizing Robots with Evolution
Home/News/A Novel Way to Optimize Robots/Full TextACM NEWSA Novel Way to Optimize RobotsBy The Economist November 3, 2021It might sound obvious that if you want...
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Wal-Mart Now Doing Driverless Delivery
My connections say that qualified drivers are very hard to get. Which may push driverless adoption hard. Wal-Mart use will also likely push the industry's use....
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Drone Attacked Infrastructure
Appears to be the first infrastructure targeting drone attack reported. Expect more.Drone at Pennsylvania Electric Substation First to 'Specifically Target Energy...
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Banking Malware Threats
Banking malware threats surging as mobile banking increases – Nokia Threat Intelligence ReportPress Release Banking malware threats surging as mobile banking increases...
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Antibiotic Resistance Outwitted by Supercomputers
No mention of AI here, just computational speed. Likely in the detail.Antibiotic Resistance Outwitted by SupercomputersBy University of Portsmouth (U.K.)November...
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Robots and Computers learning Morals
Yes, but Whose Morals?Machines Learn Good From Commonsense Norm Bank New moral reference guide for AI draws from advice columns and ethics message boards CHARLES...
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Facebook Goes Tactile
Been surprised by directions Facebook is taking, Giving AI a bad name? In Spectrum IEEEWhy Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots Durable and...
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Phases of Analytic Evoloution
Been a while since I looked at KelloggInsight4 Phases of Analytics Evolution: From Spreadsheets to AI WorkbenchesWhat lies ahead for business leaders looking to...
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AWS Using Gaudi Acceleration
This was brought to my attention some time ago. Here an overview of what Amazon is doing there. Technical. Looking up some notes on gaudi generators, Know of...
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Kroger to Take Bitcoin? .... NO!
Having worked with Kroger was stunned by this earlier today, consider the implications. But no was a hoax. To influence share prices? Walmart had earlier been...
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Practical Holograms?
Ever since seeing early versions of holographic images ay Disney World have thought of their uses, both in interaction with consumers, and as a means to graphically...
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Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality
Some optimistic views but challenges still exist, good overview.Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality, By Samuel GreengardCommunications of the ACM, November 2021...
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Tales of Grace Hopper
Told of my own minor interactions with Grace Hopper at the Pentagon, towards the end of her career, here is more:Grace Hopper, Minicomputers, and Megabytes: It's...
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Example of Key Health IOT
Have become educated in advanced BP measurement lately which led me to note this IOT example. And the need for it. Note this is something in progress, as yet...
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Impact of Covid on Automation
Wladowsky-Berger does a good job in covering the topic:Impact of Covid-19 on Job Automation“Why are there still so many jobs?,” asked MIT economist David AutorAs...
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Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech From TV, Not School
Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech Careers From TV, Not SchoolZDNet, Liam Tung, August 6, 2021(Note this is about careers, not the tech itself, Assume its...
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Edge Computing and Healthcare
Many applications and emerging possibilities.How Edge Computing is Transforming HealthcareBy Vanessa BraunsteinWhen analyzing healthcare and life science data from...
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Words vs Images?
Considering WorthNot Worth a Thousand Words By Bertrand Meyer October 12, 2021Three minutes into my talk at my first meeting of the IFIP working group on programming...
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Businesses Offerred OpenAI By Microsoft.
Microsoft built an API for its use. Seems it needs some cautions due to liability.Microsoft is giving businesses access to OpenAI’s powerful AI language model...
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