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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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Five Nonobvious Remote Work Techniques
Very interesting piece in Queue and the Communications of the ACM, Nov 2020, pp 108-110. Take the problem beyond the technical and to the collaboratively social...
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Deception and Concealment Technology
Worked with MITRE way back. Now it is also about active defense. Not much revealed here, but its interesting. MITRE Shield Matrix Highlights Deception & Concealment...
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AI, the Next Generations
Fairly good, short, non technical piece. I agree with the first item mentioned: 'unsupervised learning', it is the future, and it is hard to do generally. ...
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MonoEye - Human Motion Capture
Most interesting approach. The implications? Note deep neural approach for selection of poses. Accuracy? Gathering information for healthcare, sports, training...
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Singularity Hub Looks at GPT-3
Out of SingularityHub. A look at the writing AI called GPT-3. Scopes some of the possibilities and limitations.OpenAI’s GPT-3 Wrote This Short Film—Even the ...
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Behold the Openbot Smart Phone
A curious and interesting thing. Strap a smartphone to some wheels and sensors, and you have an OpenBot. Is it a toy, a test platform, an indication where Intel...
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Amazon Made a Mistake with Whole Foods?
In Bob Herbold's blog, a strategic error by Amazon acquiring whole foods? Used to go to these, not much anymore. Yes, can see the 'cultlike' tag for its customers...
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Zoom Adding End-to-end Encryption
Been following this for some time. I like Zoom, my favorite to date of the half dozen commonly in use methods I know of. Now even free users can turn on advanced...
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Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Impacting the Bottom Line
Yes, well done, it always has. And further methods like AI, a kind of analytics, does the same. Been doing it for a lifetime. Interesting numbers below.How ...
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Upcoming ACM Talk: Deep Learning and Software Engineering
Plan to attend this ACM talk:VIP Reminder: Nov 2 Talk with fast.ai http://fast.ai/ Co-Founder Jeremy Howard on Applying Software Engineering Practices to Deep....
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Adding a Brain to a Robot
Sounds obvious, but what are the form and function and challenges of such a brain? To be more human, more creative, more engaging? Made me think.How Giving Robots...
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Voice Assistants and Health Care
Thoughtful and considerable piece with statistics. Below an intro, much more at the link.How AI Voice Assistants Can Revolutionize Health in TowardsAi by Alan...
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Fooling Self Driving Autopilots
Had seen this mentioned before, good overview in Schneier. As usual the discussion in the comments there is the most interesting, with experts in the field chiming...
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Learning Common Sense from Animals
The common sense problem. Intriguing view. Not enough details, but has links to related academic papers.Researchers suggest AI can learn common sense from animals...
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Benchmarking Voice Understanding
Good points made. I have been using Google voice assistant versus Amazon Alexa for a few years now. Only now and then using Siri. I see more 'balking' byUnderstanding...
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GM Can Manage an EV's Batteries Wirelessly and Remotely
Seems quite a considerable improvement of automotive battery use and management for electric vehicles.Exclusive: GM Can Manage an EV's Batteries Wirelessly—andThe...
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European Quantum Computing Facility Goes Online
With some useful statistics about usage and capabilities. Note integration with simulator. Good description of use and testing processes in place.Home/News/First...
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Radical Technique Lets AI Learn with Practically No Data
Learning more accurately, efficiently, is always useful.A Radical Technique Lets AI Learn with Practically No DataMIT Technology Review, By Karen Hao, October...
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U.S. Government Agencies to Use AI to Cut Outdated Regulations
Makes sense, we examined related methods for regualations.U.S. Government Agencies to Use AI to Cull, Cut Outdated RegulationsReuters, David ShepardsonOctober...
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