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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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AI Agents Learning to Communicate
Machines learning and adapting using language. As suggested,the environment/context is also important.AI agents can learn to communicate effectively by University...
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Amazon Alexa-Live Next Week
Am an invited remote participant at the Amazon Skill Developer event: Alexa-Live on July 22 next week. In particular to represent a project with voice assistant...
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Capital One's AI Assistant
Had not seen this assistant example before. Much more at the link.How Capital One’s AI assistant achieved 99% NLU accuracyVB Staff in VentureBeatLike almost every...
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Implications of Working Without an Office
Worth while look based on a broad survey, analysis of the results, with some surprising results. The Implications of Working Without an Office HBR Big IdeaHBR...
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Data Dividend Plan
We worked on a number of projects that linked to 'data as an asset' ideas, and was reminded of this project in Wired. Its value, limitations are and issues worth...
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Japanese Robots Learn Food Prep: Resemble Kangaroos
Note the proposal that at first the food will be prepared by humans remotely, and those motions will be learned. Then the system will use that learning to prepare...
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Politeness of Machines
Do we expect the same politeness from machines? Are we polite to them? They can detect some aspects of our demeanor by the words we use. Will we begin to...
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Revamped GMail to Compete
Used GMail since we tested it in the enterprise. Later because we collaborated with universities who got it for free. Always liked it, and the following GSuite...
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Microsoft Adds Cortana to Outlook on Android
Been following Microsoft and what they are doing with Cortana. Had always thought they could do more, but perhaps because of some early and recent problems with...
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Microsoft Spins off Chinese Chatbot
Somewhat surprising, the demos I had seen looked interesting.Microsoft Spins Off Chinese Chatbot Xiaoice by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 14, 2020Microsoft...
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BMW Sees Car as Digital Platform
Interesting regards the breadth of integrated technology, but the reaction of consumers to 'microtransactions' or payment/subscription for many elemental features...
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MIT Auto-ID Laboratory
MIT AUTO-ID LABORATORYThe MIT AUTO-ID LABORATORY coined the term Internet of Things (IoT) and traces its roots back to 1999 with the founding of the Auto-ID Center...
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OpenAI Monitors Machine Learning Efficiency
For now, the most measurable and definable kind of AI is machine learning, It uses much data and compute cycles. Useful to measure the advances in efficiency...
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Google's Tsunami for Network Security Scanning
Here is a new and somewhat unexpected thing I was just introduced to by TWIT. See their generalized writeup below. Note still in pre-alpha form, but would...
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Avatarin for Healthcare Robotics
We visited Japan in the 90s to talk robotics in retail. Ended up mainly seeing eldercare and related home solutions. Impressed, but did not see that many really...
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Home Robotics with a Reaching Tele-Assistant
What looks like a minimalist robot, but with a great reach. Evidently primarily for tele-operation. And thinking about it, reach is a big component of convenience...
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Thinking Decentralized Dependent Decision Problems
Struck me as quite interesting, how do we make societal decisions? Can we learn the right information to support the right decisions? You can usually state sub...
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Samsung Talks Mobile Holograms and Digital Twins
Piece in Venturebeat talks 6G and says it will fundamentally enable tech like holograms and Digital Twins. Note the date, 2028 is a long way out to predict. Digital...
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Amazon Trys a Re-Emergence of the Smart Cart
We looked at many applications of the smart shopping cart for work in our innovation centers. The idea seemed to fade then, after 2010, and none of them succeeded...
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