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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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Alexa Accelerator
Amazon seeks more startups for Alexa:Alexa Fund Opens Virtual Startup Accelerator ApplicationsEric HAL SCHWARTZ in VoicebotAmazon announced a new startup accelerator...
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IRI Offers Updating Retail Oriented Virus Information
IRI Market Research offers resources (via Retailwire)The coronavirus is top of mind for all right now, and understandably so. There remain a lot of unanswered questions...
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Reproducibility on Machine Learning
In The Gradient ....Reproducibility and Machine LearningPeer review has been an integral part of scientific research for more than 300 years. But even before peer...
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Machine Learning and NanoIndentation
What appears to be a novel application of machine learning which uses the sensory gathering of large numbers of inputs.Deep learning for mechanical property evaluation...
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D-Wave Announces Leap-2 and Discusses it and Matching with Machine Learning
Fascinating progress here. We have followed D-Wave Quantum computing here since our original conversations with them. Excellent update here.D-Wave: Quantum computing...
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Ideal Glass
For the material scientist in me, a fascinating piece in Quanta MagazineIdeal Glass Would Explain Why Glass Exists at AllGlass is anything that’s rigid like a crystal...
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Monitoring Virus Patients by Phone
With an expectation of a certain degree of violation of privacy and the need for regulating that.Israel Takes Step Toward Monitoring Phones of Virus PatientsAssociated...
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Learning New Ways to Continually Learn
Not quite I think of when I think of AGI (Artficial General Intelligence). But sequences of useful tasks/learning can be seen as what humans do, provided they...
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Bing Launches Interactive COVID-19 Map
Instructive map, do wonder how up to date it is.Microsoft Bing launches interactive COVID-19 map to provide pandemic newsBut it’s struggling to provide relevant...
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Automation vs AI
Some useful observations and possible application to work and tasks emerging.Automation and AI sound similar, but may have vastly different impacts on the future...
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VR Physiotherapy
An example of using feedback to get real results.Physiotherapy Could be Done at Home Using VRUniversity of WarwickFebruary 28, 2020Researchers at the Warwick Manufacturing...
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Airport Facial Recognition
More examples of regulating facial recognition in new contexts.ACLU is suing the US gov for blocking airport facial recognition probeBy Ryan Daws Editor at TechForge...
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Post Google Economics
Blog: Man on the MarginClassical Economics in a Quantum World By Michael KendallBrought to my Attention by the book: 'Life After Google', by George Gilder
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Slowing Down for Decisions in Crisis
Sensible, but depends on the flow of risk as well.Slow Down to Make Better Decisions in a Crisis by Art Markman in HBRThe news about the spread of COVID-19 is...
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Integrating Voice Synthesis for Business
API from Amazon AWS to synthesise speech in multiple languages to communicate and persuade in varying real and artificial personas.Simple-to-Use APIAmazon Polly...
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Simple Uses of RPA in Business
Good example of the simple use of RPA in businessAI Is Coming for Your Most Mind-Numbing Office Tasks By Will Knight in WiredRoutine work, like cutting and pasting...
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Tech Firms Seek to Head off Bans on Facial Recognition
Don't expect foreign uses to be banned.Tech Firms Seek to Head Off Bans on Facial RecognitionThe Wall Street JournalBy Ryan TracyMarch 8, 2020Technology companies...
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Speak Math, not Code
Makes sense to understand the math and its implications. I would add that the logic involved in implementation is often ignored by the mathematicians involved....
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The Value of the FuzzBench
A means to support debugging code and thus searching for code vulnerabilities. We used it the early days. Google uses it and recently published some public capabilities...
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