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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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Fighting Disasters with AI
We connected with PNNL, an impressive group.DOE Announces ‘First Five Consortium’ to Fight Natural Disasters with AIOliver Peckham in DatanamiAs wildland firesThe...
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CAS Signs Enterprise Agreement with P&G
Considerable agreement for data and process workflow.CAS announces signing of multi-year enterprise agreement with P&GAgreement expands long-term partnership to...
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Human AI Collaboration
Google talks one of the most important aspects of the use of advanced tech. I would further say that this should not be about just 'AI' as it is defined today,...
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Too Many Satellites?
Have been among those to warn of having too many communications sats in orbit. Now it is becoming a reality. Article talks some of the details.Hundreds of astronomers...
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Does Boredom Separate us from Machines
Pondering the proposition. Attention span and creativity.Boredom is what separates us from machines In TheNextWebHumans can't match the attention spans of bots...
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More Small Robots, Exploring
They get smaller yet.Army of a Million Microscopic Robots Created to Explore on Tiny ScaleNew ScientistLayal LiverpoolAugust 26, 2020University of Pennsylvania...
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Wal-Mart and TikTok
Just recently have been exposed to TikTok as a marketing channel, and wondered too what Wal-Mart was up to, here a look at the possibilities with Microsoft..Walmart...
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The Need to become an Adaptive Expert
Been known for a long time, soft skills are important. Expertise is by definition a means of changing to meet the context. Becoming an 'Adaptive' ExpertBy Quinn...
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Platforms for Data Science
Good piece in O'Reilly about this question, largely-non technical and useful thoughts. Passing it on ...Why Best-of-Breed is a Better Choice than All-in-One Platforms...
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Doorbell Cameras Used by Criminals too
I have recently been asked about security issues with doorbell and other smart home camera systems. The following excerpt from The Verge shows a perhaps less than...
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Amazon Prime Air Approved for Trials
Promised some time ago. Now FAA approved. In specifically what parts of the supply chain is this expected to be useful? Some years away?Amazon's Prime AirThe...
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Ikea Tries Virtual Influence, Happiness and More
So what is this? An assistant? An influencer in what sense? Just to engage us? An Android? To do what for whom? Assemble furniture or prepare meatballs?...
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Knowledge Graphs vs Property Graphs
Robert Coyne Writes and points to a number of their resources on this topic:Thank you for attending our webinar: "Knowledge Graphs vs. Property Graphs --a brief...
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Quantum Accelerated Computation as Disruption
Some bits of thoughts on the topic. And new form of high performance computing (HPC)? Ultimately what are the limits of capabilities here, versus more standard...
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More Seeing Around the Corner
More on the topic. Mentioned a number of times here, a seemingly impossible idea. But very useful for driving applications to anticipate and avoid problems. Thought...
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Exoskeletons Advancing
The exoskeleton idea is fascinating ... already in use in automotive. Anywhere that needs improved physical strength and manipulation. Military another area very...
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Surveillance Capitalism
I was just pointed to Shoshanna Zuboff's latest Book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: Our company had been interviewed for her 1988 book: In the Age of....
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Content Factories Emerge
We have many means of converting data and hypotheses to useful testable directions.The Data-Driven Tech Engine at the Heart of Hollywood's Content FactoriesTheChristopher...
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Connecting Computers to the Brain: Update NeuralLink
Had heard of this some time ago. Apparently this updates. Still skeptical as to what the word 'connecting' means here. We can read brain signals readily, but...
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