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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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Towards Better Forecasting: Less Noise
A forecast prediction is key for any business decision. Short intro, then the entire podcast follows at the link.Wharton’s Barbara Mellers and Ville Satopӓӓ from...
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Google Announces Ambient Mode on Some Phone Devices
What they have called an 'intent based' rather than 'App based' design, for some phones now, and likely to happen on all their devices. I would imagine this would...
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Technology and the Future of Utilities
In the Cisco Blog, a good overview of how tech is helping redesign and enable energy utilities. Making them more efficient and secure. Energy - Oil & Gas and...
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Will IOT Reinvent the Supply Chain?
We always thought so, starting with the use of the simplest IOT, RFID tagging. Though it may ultimately require new kinds of ledgers, contracts and modeling that...
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P-Hacking as Malpractice
In the early days we used to have rooms full of statisticians and economists, and we were trained in the craft as well. Yet I don't ever remember the term 'P-value...
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Taking AI and ML from Research to Production
Good, though too short piece from O'Reilly. I add, its 90% the same as getting any kind of important IT into production.Moving AI and ML from research into production...
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Alexa to be Seen in Much Smaller, Simpler Devices
Will be interested to see where this emerges, with voice, or delivering new kinds of skills?Alexa is coming to low-spec devices like light switches and thermostats...
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Supercomputers at the Exascale
Continued work on faster and better solutions to hard problems. Still think its mostly about designing and delivering better software in context and to scale....
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Deepfakes being Addressed
Continued look at the process of validation.Tech Companies Step Up Fight Against 'Deepfakes'The Wall Street JournalBy Betsy MorrisCompanies such as Facebook, Twitter...
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Ahold Testing Cashierless
More on Ahold's working on cashierless stores.Ahold has a go at cashierless store format By Dan Berthiaume in CSAA major supermarket conglomerate is taking a...
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3D Printing 'Living' Materials
Implications here fascinating, more details at the link.3D Printing Technique Produces 'Living' 4D MaterialsUNSW NewsroomBy Caroline TangNovember 19, 2019Researchers...
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Very Fast PhotoGrammetry for Agriculture
Once again, very fast acquisition of accurate maps, in agriculture could be used to quickly detect changes in plantings by location and predict changes. Our own...
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Automated Program Repair
Not too far off from Machine Programming. Or programming from pre-set templates, which we often did in enterprise. Another argument for the demise of hand programming...
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Automotive Industry Warned Against Hacking
Expect hacking everywhere, especially where it can be effectively leveraged by finance or influence.FBI warns automakers they’re being targeted by hackers By Duncan...
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Google's Explainable AI
Looks to be well done, in Beta, but worth looking at:Explainable AIBETATools and frameworks to deploy interpretable and inclusive machine learning models.Try it...
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Drones Do the Work of 500 Farmers
Our own work with pulp forests could also have used drones, as well as the idea of AI detecting patterns of growth and harvest planning. And for control ofDrones...
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Waves Enterprise Blockchain
Been examining a number of applications of smart contracts recently, including those more closely connected to specific goal oriented and regulatory agreementsWaves...
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Smart Cities Based on Good Models
Here energy is the starting point, but other aspects of city resource use, transportation processes, risk analyses and other goal and future predictive models should...
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Alphabet X Everyday Robot
Early tasks will have these robots sorting trash. In practice a tough job, with vision and other sensory aspects. Learning also means adapting, so the hardest...
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