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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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Shaping Future Strategy with Wargaming
Early in my career worked in the DOD. We worked lots of simulated decisions for many operational reasons. More like you might see in classic gaming, than you...
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Alexa Turns Six
Hard to imagine it, Voicebot.ai reports on the birthday and the future of voice assistance. A big step forward, but what are the other steps we need?Amazon Echo...
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Cyborg Cockroaches
Remain interested in small and very small robotic devices. And cooperating swarms. They don't need to be scarythough.A Swarm of Cyborg Cockroaches That Lives...
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Continued Rise of Home Assistant Devices
My array of devices and their use continues to rise, despite the less that 'Smartness' still in evidence. Transactions With Voice Assistants on Smart Home Devices...
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Can AI Help Save Forests
Our own work with managing forests in Canada also address problems like forest fires. While at the same time we wanted to maximize harvest and conservation. Note...
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Podcast from Recorded Future on Trickbot
Been following the security implications. Here a podcast by former security connections at Recorded Future on the topic: Trickbot is Down But Not Out By Caitlin...
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Robots and ReStocking
Despite the recent news that Wal-Mart was backing out of this for now, here is a link to get an eBook from Braincorp that discusses the robotics approach ... How...
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Printing Quasi Textiles
Had not heard of this before ... had examined how 'smart' fabrics would need to be maintained. Intriguing direction. Quasi textiles.Leveraging a 3D Printer...
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Drones Doing Autonomous Acrobatics
Why, you might ask beyond artistic maneuvers? Seems more an approach to training than anything else. And as they say, addressing the limits of autonomy for tasks...
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Drones use Darts to Create Networks
At first I thought the idea was to sense the state of forestry plantations. But no, it was for setting up apparently temporary networks to share sensor data. ...
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What Deep Learning can Learn from Software Engineering
I attended the following ACM webcast last week, now available, very useful thoughts: ,,, Thank you for attending It's Time Deep Learning Learned from Software...
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State of AI Report
An investors eye view:State of AI Report 2020 The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. We aim to trigger an informed conversation...
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Open Source Intrusion Detection
First I have seen such a capability offered. Worth a look to see about following: World's Fastest Open-Source Intrusion Detection Is HereCarnegie Mellon University...
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Free CERN Quantum Lectures and Course
Looks to be of interest, in particular includes D-Wave (who we connected with early on) and IBM implementations. Been asked to drop in on this and comment on its...
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Dubber in the IBM Voice Cloud for Conversation Value
Ultimately voice is data, and that data needs to be converted into intelligence to create useful conversations of value. With logic, learning and AI. To create...
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Digital Twins for Heavy Machinery
Again, a means of creating a 'digital twin', or simulation, to prototype, operate in context or design some 'thing'. Here the object is heavy machinery. But...
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White Castle Fast Food Using Flippy Robot
Inevitable to see more of these robotic solutions for food preparation, here the most common example. White Castle Plans to Use Robot in More LocationsForbes, By...
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Things that Quantum Computing will be Useful For
Thoughtful, but non-technical look at the question.6 Things Quantum Computers Will Be Incredibly Useful For By Mark Jackson in SIngularity HubComputers don’t exist...
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App Analyzes Coronavirus Genome on Smartphone
Amazing how we can get advanced bioinformatics on a handheld. Open source too.App Analyzes Coronavirus Genome on SmartphoneGarvan Institute of Medical ResearchResearchers...
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