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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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Did IBM Lose the Cloud?
Did IBM Lose the Cloud and was Emphasis on Watson to Blame? Interacted with them during the early Watson days and there was quite an investment in that. How ...
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Retail Hyperautomation?
My friend Gib Basset authors this piece in Retailwire, including further discussion: Will ‘hyperautomation’ determine retailing success from this point forward?...
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Swarm Robotics
The power of the swarm? Collective application to a task? Sharing tasks. Data and path aware solutions? Researchers Successfully Build Four-Legged Swarm Robots...
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US Commerce Dept Bans Selling Hacking Tools to China, Russia
Not sure this means very much, but the list of tools mentioned within the article is interesting. Commerce Department announces new rule aimed at stemming sale ...
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Qualcomm Smart Cities And Cepton
Cepton Joins Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program, Bringing Expertise in Smart Lidar Technologies for Higher Levels of Safety, Intelligence and Connectivity...
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Robots Sewing
Useful to see examples where robotics have problems with manufacturing steps.Why Robots Can't Sew Your T-ShirtBy Wired, September 28, 2021SoftWear Automation https...
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IBM's Journey to AI Blog
IBM taking a fresh look at AIIBM's Journey to AI BlogData: It’s becoming richer, cheaper, and increasingly open in the post-pandemic world of broad digitalization...
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The Security of Pin Codes
Disconcerting suggestion. Via Schneier, see where there are comments of interest .... Credit card PINs can be guessed even when covering the ATM pad in Bleepingcomputer...
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Lucy as a Robot Archaeologist
Archaeologists adapt to the context to make the best use of their time and resources. Is this what is being done or are just doing remote control? Following.Why...
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Small Data Also Crucial, With Tested Transfer Assumption
We tried related ideas but found that the transfer assumption rarely held well enough to be useful. Useful to keep in mind to potentially simplify models, with...
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Quantum Data Link over Chinese Cities
Repeated, was asked for new comment on this: via ACM TECHNEWSQuantum Data Link Established Between 2 Distant Chinese CitiesBy New ScientistResearchers at theThe...
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AI Forecasting
All of AI is a kind of forecasting and I like see the comparison of statistical and AI style methods. Some related examples below.New Post: Updates and Lessons...
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Robot Trains for Clogged Infrastructure
Intriguing solution.How to Move More Goods Through America's Clogged Infrastructure? Robot TrainsThe Wall Street Journal, Christopher Mims, October 9, 2021Autonomous...
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Facebook's Tools can Target a Single User
Well I would think the title above is clearly true, but the question is how effective is it in a useful context? And is that ethically more powerful than a typical...
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Pentagon Predicting Events
Long after I worked for NCSS at the Pentagon, but you could start to hear the same questions at the time, when we were predicting events using large scale visualization...
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Adaptive Queueing Systems
Did quite a bit of work in queueing systsems. Even recently saw a presentation by McDonald's on how they address drive-through and the resulting queues/Mathematicians...
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More Smart Glasses
Additional experiments with the idea. Will this become common, replacing phones and watches?TCL unveils Thunderbird Smart Glasses with a full-color transparent...
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Better Detection of Earthquakes with Machine Learniing
New work in the space using Machine Learning, we had proposed related methods when studying neural models. Here a convolutional neural network.Researchers Create...
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Robots Learning to Walk with an Obstacle Course
Establishing a means for training that matches the elements of the real word. Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to WalkWired, Will Knight, October...
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