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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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Beware of Assumptions
Bob Herbold tells a good story about the danger of assumptions for leaders.There is a powerful lesson for leaders here:Beware of Assumptions – Regularly isolate...
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Predictive Maintenance Driving 3D Printing
A long term interest and application area. You could do a good job of prediction, but had to have a complex array of replacement parts in inventory. Here, for...
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Bot Activity During Coronavisus
Don't know what to fully make of this. How accurate is the machine learning of the model working to identify bots?. Looking for the Carnegie piece supporting...
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Kubernetes Workflows
This presentation was just brought to my attention. Especially useful when maintenance will be required, and it should always be built in for serious operations...
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The Ethics of Dark Patterns
A look at 'Dark Patterns', had not heard the term. Linking to ACM look at ethics by people that build such interfaces.Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future...
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Talk: The ACM Code of Ethics vs Snake Oil and Dodgy Development
And directly related to the last post, note the excellent archive of past talks linked to below.Register Now: "Leveraging the ACM Code of Ethics Against Ethical...
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Touch Sensors
Touch sensors are advancing. We sought for understanding and adjusting how how products felt via a sensor.OmniTact: A Multi-Directional High-Resolution Touch...
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Vizient and IBM Watson Health
Been following for some time how Watson is being embedded in real world business process and problem solving. Here another example in healthcare. Note the replacement...
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Refraction AI Contactless Food Delivery
Here is an excerpt from Spectrum IEEE on robotic solutions. Featuring Refraction AI, a contactless food delivery system. Plus a number of videos of related...
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Ideo Designer Designing Smarts to Compete with Apple
We worked with Ideo in some of our shopping labs and problem solving spaces. So the emergence of the emergence of a new smart speaker from an Ideo designer was...
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Basic, Non-technical look at Quantum Computing
Looks to be a good, basic, non technical introduction, and also links to further free courses.Quantum Computing for the NewbIntroductory ConceptsBy Amelie Schreiber...
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Wal-Mart Grounding Jet.com
No new news, but some of the motivations provided of interest, Would they have thought differently if they knew of the virus coming? Will it fundamentally change...
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Google Letting You Buy with Voice
This has been possible directly with Amazon Alexa for a long time, I use it fairly often, but the claim here is that Google Assistant is much more secure, using...
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Plasma Jets may Propel Aircraft
Some of the interesting details in the link below.Plasma Jets May One Day Propel AircraftPlasma thrusters could help jet planes fly without fossil fuelsBy Charles...
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Facebook's Blenderbot
Good indication of what Facebook has been doing in this space.. From O'Reilly: Facebook open-sources BlenderBotFacebook AI has open-sourced BlenderBot, an open...
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Embedding Machine Learning into RPA Process
Something we did, but with BPM models and process flow. Makes sense because you can better understand the context involved. Process models, even simple visualizations...
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Could You Run your Business as a Sim Game?
The overall idea here was pitched to us, especially the supply chain aspects of such a sim. Since we were already doing related analytics, you could see how such...
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Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes
Ultimately in delivery, workflow design is key, here a presentation on the topic.Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application...
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Useful Plans vs the Activity of Planning
Below the intro to former IBMer Irving Wladawsky-Berger article on planning vs plans ... much more at the link. I like especially the differences when you meet...
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