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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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Fraunhofer and IBM with Quantum in Europe
Notably bringing in the IBM Q quantum computer for exploration.Milestone for quantum computing research and development in EuropeIBM and Fraunhofer bring Quantum...
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Longer Form Translation for Assistants
Have mentioned some experimentation with real time longer form translation, as it can exist within the framework of voice driven assistants. Impressive so far....
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Predicting Epidemics and Other Complex, Dynamic and Dangerous Events.
And several decades ago, we also examined these data and methods, also aimed at epidemics, that aimed at doing this and bioterror as well. We did not have all...
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Debater Improves the way Watson Uses Language
Things that came of of the 'Debater' project, some interesting ways to include in a system the way we construct words and phrases creatively. The kinds of things...
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Free Books for ACM Members
I have been a member of and blogger for ACM https://acm.org for decades and a big proponent for membership in this professional society, now much more practically...
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Digital Bank of England banknotes?
Some indication that major countries are considering/testing possible implementations.Is this the digital future for Bank of England banknotes? By Kevin Peachey...
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IOTA Execs Refund Hack Losses
I have in the past talked about IOTA, a unique kind of blockchain system. This past February it was a subject to a hack and lost some $1.4 Million in cybercurrency...
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Could We Forgive a Machine?
Still at the edge of real life considerations. It is really still an exploration. But even in the last era of AI, we looked at aspects of fault and liability....
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McKinsey: COVID-19: Implications for Business
Good, detailed piece about this, worth a look:COVID-19: Implications for businessMarch 2020 | Executive BriefingBy Matt Craven, Linda Liu, Mihir Mysore, and Matt...
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AI Powered Contract Management
Another example in the legal space, here specifically looking at contracts, and the management of related data. Much more at the link. Note machine learningExigent...
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Scaling up Digital and Analytics Results in Consumer Goods
Thoughtful formulation here.Solving the digital and analytics scale-up challenge in consumer goods in McKinsey" ... Many consumer-goods companies have entered the...
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Reinforcement Learning for the Real World
Conceptually reinforcement learning should work well, but in practice it can be problematical. Like that it is being considered for business applications. Which...
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Data Driven Farming
Interesting development, maps with my background in this area. Could have used this in forestry and vineyard applications.Arable launches a new generation of ...
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Goggle Assistant Adds Support for Passive Sensors
As I read this quite interesting, but the Dash buttons of Amazon, now discontinued, did a similar thing. But this appears to do things with more general sensors...
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Acceptance of AI as a creative Inventor
In Forbes, more examples in the space, here using a zero-knowledge approach. Ernst & Young Doubles Down On Its Bet With EthereumBen Jessel ContributorCrypto &...
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AI and Legal Discovery
More developments for the textually and logic intense world of Law. How much of legal tasks be replaced by systems? Following this.Everlaw announces $62M Series...
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Cortana Going Away
At least as a standalone assistant for the home. Now linking to their business systems, yet have yet to find it useful there.Cortana, say goodbyeThe digital assistant...
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Reducing Bias in AI by Forgetting
Intriguing thought. When we built a learning system we included the notion of forgetting as an aspect of scheduling maintenance, re-running and retesting particular...
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Google Maps Restaurant Dishes with Images
Clever idea. Integration of crowdsourced images for search. Recall when the idea of consumers providing images to businesses came out, seems it has slipped in...
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