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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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Fixing 3D Print
Instructive example, other applications?3D Print Jobs Are More Accurate With Machine LearningUSC engineers have developed AI that can make any 3D printer more precise...
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China Gives Citizens a Danger Code
Via ACM. Is this a 'troubling precedent', or a reasonable approach for imminent danger?In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, with Red Flags...
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Wal-Mart Fights Amazon Prime with Walmart+
Not so quiet really, have seen several notes on this in the past week. Details will be interesting. Amazon has the really broad reach here with embedded channels...
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Emphasis on Remote Work
In my own work, ver the last few weeks this has been mentioned several times. Obvious reaction. Seen also the effect on physically attending conferences.As coronavirus...
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Robots Learning
Impressed with what is going on behind the scenes at Google, ultimately having systems that will learn about their contexts, both physical and logical.Google algorithm...
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Crowdsourcing Ethical Machines
Qute a remarkable piece, ultimately technical but a good proposal for getting at the problem of exploring 'ethics' in machines. Can machines be more or less ethical...
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Transforming Organizations
My own observation is that this is very haphazardly done. This piece looks at key variables. But how do you make sure these variables are addressed, measured and...
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On Assistants in Healthcare
Much work to be done on voice solutions to health problems. The infrastructure is growing.Industry Voices—Is Dr. Alexa ready to see you now? in FierceHealthcare...
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Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems: IOT Solutions
Spent some time looking at monitoring and troubleshooting systems, with the obvious need to infer causation. Here an intro to 'Pivot Tracing', a means of causal...
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Nordic Countries get 900K Smart Speakers
It seems Amazon has only a small part of this market. Google assistant has the advantage of much more translation and localization of language. Important if these...
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Ingestible Medical Devices
Abilities to ingest and then remove devices readily.Ingestible medical devices can be broken down with lightNew light-sensitive material could eliminate some of...
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Replacing Data Scientists With AutoML?
Excerpt from a current KDNuggets article, which links further to a poll that asks the questions of practitioners. My answer is yes. AutoML will replace the current...
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Extraterrestrial Protein Found
Proteins found in an existential source for the first time. With differences from terrestial proteins.For the first time, scientists found a complete proteinFuturism...
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'Autonomous' Translation at Hand?
A number of mobile devices how have instantaneous translation, so we have the promise of using them in any multilingual environment. I have a Google assistant...
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Technological Advances
Technology Review put out their annual review of tech that will be important in the coming year. Not just the tech areas, but how they will be specifically used...
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Goodbye Freeman Dyson
Physicist, mathematician and well known writer Freeman Dyson has passed away. Followed his work for years. A powerful, widely thinking, iconoclastic mind.Freeman...
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China Digital Currency and Virus
Origin of this comments makes this interesting, a means of regulating otherwise hard to control financial results coming from less controllable events like epidemics...
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The Hutter Prize
Just informed of this work, via a podcast referenced below. Still aiming to make some further sense of this in general. Technical.The Hutter Prize SiteBeing able...
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Tackling Flu with Virus Simulations
We worked with the San Diego Supercomputer center. Quite a global challenge is emerging here and the emerging approaches will be good to track for reapplications...
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