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Multiple value Slots for Improved Dialog
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Multiple value Slots for Improved Dialog

 Reported in Amazon Developer,  Dialog is the thing.   Now Available: Use Multi-Value Slots to build more Natural conversationsKarthik Ragubathy Jan 19, 2021Share...

New AI to Reason about Uncertainty
From The Eponymous Pickle

New AI to Reason about Uncertainty

Good thoughts here.   We spend muct time trying to reduce uncertainty to something useful, like risk, both within rule based logic and prediction.Approach to AI...

Issues with Using RPA
From The Eponymous Pickle

Issues with Using RPA

To get the meat of this article you need to signin below into CIO Mag.   Non technical.10 dark secrets of robotic process automationRPA promises to streamline workflows...

Digital First Approaches
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital First Approaches

Arranging digital approachs.A digital first approach is essential to retail success    By Lee Peterson   in RetailWire with expert commentary Through a specialayfinD...

Possibilities of Wearable Electronics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Possibilities of Wearable Electronics

With more technical details linked to from the the article below. Researchers realizing the limitless possibilities of wearable electronics  by Erin Matthews, University...

Color to Avoid Design Failures
From The Eponymous Pickle

Color to Avoid Design Failures

Coloring your designs to avoid failures.Merging Technologies with Color to Avoid Design FailuresPenn State College of Engineering, Miranda Buckheit, January 21,...

Microsoft and McAfee headline newly-formed 'Ransomware Task Force'
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft and McAfee headline newly-formed 'Ransomware Task Force'

Need new push forward to address these attacks.Microsoft and McAfee headline newly-formed 'Ransomware Task Force'  (RTF) The newly-founded Ransomware Task Force...

MOTORBO Smart Radio better than SmartPhones?
From The Eponymous Pickle

MOTORBO Smart Radio better than SmartPhones?

 Have we gone too far with the smartphone to think of a hand held  'SmartRadio'?   Apprently with lots of business capabilities built in to place  a 'focus on collaboration...

Playing Like Humans
From The Eponymous Pickle

Playing Like Humans

Perhaps a useful strategy for other goals involved.    Or a clever 'false flag' at play?   Or mincing a human frailty.  Like the thought of it.  Chess engine sacrifices...

Cardiovascular Disease: Improving Therapy with Digital Twins
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Cardiovascular Disease: Improving Therapy with Digital Twins

 Digital twins for modeling therapy. An integration of a number of modeling methods are brought together with imaging.  Cardiovascular Diseases: Computer ModelGraz...

Designing Customized Robot Brains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing Customized Robot Brains

Interesting thoughts on the elements of such design, like the use of customized chip design.Designing Customized 'Brains' for RobotsMIT News, Daniel Ackerman, January...

Comparative Mobile Security   IOS vs Android
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Comparative Mobile Security IOS vs Android

Steve Gibson does a good job looking at security in smartphones in a recent Twit.TV.  Reviewing the work by Matthew Green at Johns Hopkins.Comparative SmartPhone...

AI Set to Replace Humans in Cybersecurity
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Set to Replace Humans in Cybersecurity

 Makes much sense in one respect, AI is about automated pattern recognition and reaction.  But it can also be said there will be AI on the other side adapting as...

Wal-Mart Leverages IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Leverages IOT

Good,  relatively simple applications are talked.Walmart Shows the Way on IoT in Food Retail  in  ProgressiveGrocer  By Thad Rueter - 01/25/2021Walmart uses IoT...

Alexa Measuring Energy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Measuring Energy

First I had heard of this, lots of interesting measure graphics at the link.Alexa can estimate how much electricity smart home devices consumeBy Patrick Hearn,A...

Making Smart Plugs Smarter
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Making Smart Plugs Smarter

Considering a broader view of 'smart', more like cooperative towards goals.Engineers make smart plugs smarter  by National University of SingaporeSingapore is in...

More Digital Humans Emerging
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More Digital Humans Emerging

Recall Microsoft's patent of a particular person, just mentioned here.   Recall too the 'uncanny valley', and other disturbing side-effects.   And the magic can...

Computing Turbulence with Competitive AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computing Turbulence with Competitive AI

 We used turbulence analysis in roasting applications. Could have used this as a means to do better predictions in simulations.Intriguing application I had notETH...

Patenting a Chat Bot of a Particular Person
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Patenting a Chat Bot of a Particular Person

The idea has been suggested before, here with slightly different capabilities.  Interesting depending hw well it could be implemented.   With image and realistic...

Camera Based Automated Drone Landing
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Camera Based Automated Drone Landing

Seems a simple action, but can be complex in different contexts. Novel Camera-Based System for Automated Landing of Drone on Fixed SpotShibaura Institute of Technology...
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