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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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GE Bores Like an Earthworm
Novel kind of robotic task and environment, example of biomimicry.GE’s soft robot bores holes like a giant earthworm by Brian Heater in TechCrunchA giant earthworm...
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Geometry Points to Drug Target Candidates
The fact that geomety and math are indicative of targets is intriguing . Points perhaps to similarity to folding problems, with huge combinatorics.Geometry Points...
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Can AI tell Moral right from Wrong?
As suggested moral choices have much to do with context, and are hard to extract from just words. I like that changes over time are being considered. Time is...
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Masks as Apparel
The thought came to mind as I walked retail yesterday, made me shudder as I counted the mask wearers in the aisle. Gathering data. There seems to be no endWill...
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Google Knowledge Graphs, Knowledge Panels
Want to build from these basics. an introduction:A reintroduction to our Knowledge Graph and knowledge panelsDanny Sullivan In Google BlogPublic Liaison for Search...
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Like People, AI will also Fail.
A very nicely done, non-technical and usefully skeptical view of AI. Making the case that even if your AI solves a problem today, it is likely to fail tomorrow,...
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Forestry System for Growth Prediction
Another example of my previous work in forestry. Would have been useful to manage harvesting schedules.Researcher to Receive Top Global Forestry Award From Swedish...
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Spot Herding Sheep and other Farm Tasks
Intrigued by the use of robotics for agricultural and other classic farming applications. Here the use of the Boston Dynamics Spot ... and a link to a video of...
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Why We Need Bayesian
This link is first a reminder to myself that we need to continually promote means of risk and uncertainty awareness in models. Meta-reasoning is always important...
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Augmented Paper as a New Media
Good illustrations at the link. Clever thought, we still will use paper (and other media) How can we effectively get important virtual content there too. Saw...
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Apple, Google and Europe on Contact Tracing
Continuing to follow this. Since Europe has different ideas about security, some disagreement was inevitable.Apple, Google Start to Win Over Europe to Their Virus...
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Alternatives to Powerpoint
I used to take a stronger point on this, but now think that powerpoint works, is understood by many people, and I have lots of my previous presentations therePowerPoint...
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Microwaves Sensing Your Health?
This struck me at first as being even more interesting than it actually seems to be: Detect what machines you are using. And derive some health measures from behavior...
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Pandemic Disruptions of Education:
Had an idea that universities would change greatly. Was struck by the prediction below. My own was more process-systematic. That Universities would be replaced...
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Embracing Responsible AI from Pilot to Production
A topic rarely addressed well, we discovered early on it had to be carefully done. Upcoming DSC webinar:Embracing Responsible AI from Pilot to ProductionJoin us...
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What is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
A good non technical look at AGI, why its not solved yet, while the narrow kind continues to spread. I would further suggest that the narrow kind is also context...
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Future of Smart Fabrics
Also a space we examined. Especially about how these fabrics could be maintained. Good to some thoughts about how this is evolving.3 Questions: The rapidly unfolding...
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Combining Museum and a Lab
When we built our retail innovation spaces, which sought to help us understand what the future of these spaces when inserting innovations, we looked at several...
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Automating Complex 3D Modeling
Better complex 3D models, that require less adjustments, can lead to beter understanding and manipulation and thus use of the model.Automating Complex 3D Modeling...
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