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Sign Language Translating Glove
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sign Language Translating Glove

Consider the broad increase in functionality from these kinds of AI applications.A high-tech glove can translate sign language with 99-percent accuracyIt could ...

Amazon's Project Kuiper to Provide Internet from Space
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon's Project Kuiper to Provide Internet from Space

Have followed this for some time.   Internet from space, globally.  Apparently the technology works well. Some of us are still worried about floating that manyHere...

Microsoft Wants TikTok
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Wants TikTok

The hot global video and music sharing capability it would seem primarily competes with YouTube and Facebook.   Meanwhile Microsoft has largely gotten out of consumer...

Mouse Co-Creator Dies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mouse Co-Creator Dies

In our meeting with the co-creator of the mouse in the 80s, Doug Engelbart, was quick to mention William English as the person to create the first mouse device....

Drug Delivery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drug Delivery

Once again,  its the accurate and efficient delivery problem.  Often a key component of process.COMMANDing Drug DeliveryMIT NewsSabbi LallJuly 10, 2020Massachusetts...

Google Tutorial and Presentation on AI and Machine Learning
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Google Tutorial and Presentation on AI and Machine Learning

Link via DSC to a considerable presentation on Machine Learning from Google. Below a quick intro with a clue to some common uses of what we are now calling AI.Google...

Introductory Guide to the Use of the Data Warehouse
From The Eponymous Pickle

Introductory Guide to the Use of the Data Warehouse

Hardy comprehensive, as the title suggests, but a good introductory piece on the data warehouse.  A minimum you should know when dealing with corporate data.  Non...

Internet of Medical Things
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Internet of Medical Things

From the ACM, Vint Cerf talks about the current and near future state of medicine.On the Internet of Medical ThingsBy Vinton G. CerfCommunications of the ACM, August...

On the Smart Supermarket Shelf
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Smart Supermarket Shelf

A space we did lots of work on with startups and big players.    Our innovation center tested them all.Smart Supermarket Shelves: A Shopping TransformationYuval...

Baidu and Self Driving
From The Eponymous Pickle

Baidu and Self Driving

Update on Baudu's involvement in self driving.Baidu completes its computer for self-driving carsIt'll first be used for autonomous valet parking.Jon Fingas, @jonfingas...

AR Simulation  for First Responders
From The Eponymous Pickle

AR Simulation for First Responders

An example of where AR can work best, where the specific examples are not rare, yet are relatively easy to construct in a form of simulation.AR Tool Shown to Help...

Emergence of Trust Tokens
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Emergence of Trust Tokens

Google buys in, likely create more acceptance.Google’s ‘trust tokens’ are here to take cookies down a pegThe company plans to eventually phase out third-party cookies...

Fully Autonomous AI Running a Wall Street Hedge Fund
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fully Autonomous AI Running a Wall Street Hedge Fund

With a number of implications/   Interesting claim here.  The emergence of legitimate DAOs Distributed Autonomous Organizations?No humans required, the fully autonomous...

On Customization
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Customization

Thoughtful and considerable piece on product personalization.  Psychology at some level,  but also linking direct specific need to function as well as a statement...

Microsoft Backing from Cortana
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Backing from Cortana

Microsoft seems to continue to fall back from having Cortana  as a general assistant.  but has implied they want to tp continue it as a  productivity aid for their...

Conversing Between Soldiers, Robots
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Conversing Between Soldiers, Robots

Will be interesting to see how contextual such conversation can be.  Would seem risk and embedded goals would also be important.   Following to see what more IArmy...

Bad Habit or Addiction to Technology?
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Bad Habit or Addiction to Technology?

A thing to look at again .... ever since gaming started we have been examining, but now its everywhere, all the time.   Examining addiction vs negative behavior...

Why Isn't AI used More?
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Why Isn't AI used More?

Still narrowly defined, fear of bias claims, hype is creating a caution reaction.  Link it to other analytics.AI Is All the Rage. So Why Aren’t More BusinessesBy...

P&G Had a Good Year
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Had a Good Year

Would have liked to see much more detail, consult the WSJ.P&G has had a very good year in the WSJ07/30/2020Procter & Gamble posted its single biggest yearly sales...

Is the Pandemic Breaking AI?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is the Pandemic Breaking AI?

This quickly came to mind in an effort underway, if an event is truly rare it has revealed less data, and current AI methods work best with lots of data.  NoteHow...
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