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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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Two Minute Papers
Two Minute PapersBrought to my attention by colleague Jeff DyckAwesome research for everyone. Two new science videos every week. You'll love it!Summarization of...
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HSBC Builds a Digital Vault
Transmitting money, or just vaulting it.HSBC to shift $20 billion worth of assets to blockchain-based Digital Vault via Reuters(Reuters) — HSBC aims to shift $20...
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Google Using Humans in Duplex too
Reminds me again of our early use of what we called 'concierge' methods for chatbot implementations. That is, using a combination of logic-AI-learning and humans...
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Celestial Observation by Smartphone.
Have had a long time background in observational astronomy, have been impressed how smartphones can support observation, but always thought there would be muchCelestron...
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Will AI Save Lives?
More on the healthcare uses pf AI methods for accurate diagnosis:It's too soon to tell if DeepMind's medical AI will save any livesArtificial intelligence trained...
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Journal of the ACM: January 2020
This month's CACM was particularly good regarding hot topics and approaches. For both the science and application areas. Below the table of contents. Something...
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IBM Traces Coffee Sourcing with Blockchain
Again, an area we worked in regarding coffee supply chain. An increasingly common use of distributed ledger, and a means of sharing trust about sharing key parts...
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Amazon Looks to Mobile Home Robotics
Bloomberg reports on linking up with a wheeled home robot for mobile tasks. The complexity and maintenance of the latter makes them more problematic as general...
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2 Factor Authentication Compromised
Had always known it had vulnerabilities, here is an example. Still a good approach to utilize. Note the approach requires theft of software tokens. ChineseBy...
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Dependability in Edge Computing
Quite a good pece, broad and deep, on the topic of edge computing. Scale, Security and standardization in Deployment. Below the abstract, more about the specific...
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Considering Statistical Traps
Needs to be carefully considered and checked. We also found that some of these problems could creep in over time, even when not the case at first. Check, recheck...
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Smart Contract Security and Correctness
Intriguing thoughts, but still find the extensibility of SC to be closer to 'agreements', and thus work process, less general than it could be. Security certainly...
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Super Saturday vs Black Friday
Another look, with some numbers, with further expert comment and opinions from Retailwire.Is Super Saturday rivaling Black Friday in importance? in Retailwire Tom...
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Singapore Cashierless Convenience Stores
More experience with cashierless models.Singapore's Unmanned Convenience Stores Learn from China's FailuresNikkei Asian ReviewBy Dylan LohUnmanned stores are appealing...
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On the Trust of AI
Over time this will change, but mere statistical statements of performance are still hard to win with. Augmented a doctor's reasoning capability is still a more...
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Blockchain Impact on Securities
Worth following.Understanding Blockchain Technology’s Impact on the Securities MarketsA team of legal and business researchers from Columbia has been awarded aThe...
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Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Architectures
For an exploration of cryptocurrencies and supporting blockchain architectures. Countries like Sweden and China are considering their direct implementation. Cryptocurrency...
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Palm Scanning Patent by Amazon
I recall we looked at this, as well as retina scans, for identification. Less perception of invasion perceived with palms, but also had some other issues. ...
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Upside Down Reinforcement Learning
New to me, in DSC, about new ways to look at reinforcement learning, see also posts on IRL. See also other links to Inverse Reinforcement Learning. How closely...
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