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Via KDNuggets: 10 Free Books on AI
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Via KDNuggets: 10 Free Books on AI

Via the always interesting KDNuggets.    Which we often pored long ago for information about developments in 'Knowledge Discovery',  before the term changed to10...

Nestle and Carrefour Track Baby Milk
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Nestle and Carrefour Track Baby Milk

Another tracking and safety identification example.Nestle, Carrefour Extend Blockchain Tracking Effort to Baby Milk   By Daniel Palmer in CoindeskNothing is more...

Laser Pointers Can Hack Your Voice Assistant
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Laser Pointers Can Hack Your Voice Assistant

Troublesome, but does require visual line of sight.   Could the assistant detect the kind of energy being received and reject a transduced signal?Laser pointerby...

IBM Wants to Change Weather Forecasting
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IBM Wants to Change Weather Forecasting

Wondered Where IBM was Taking their big Weather Investment.  I note that American Airlines is testing some of this.IBM hopes to change weather forecasting around...

Censorship Evasion
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Censorship Evasion

Basically fooling the censors.   Is this breakable? AI System Evolves to Evade Internet CensorshipUniversity of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural...

Should Customers be Paid for their Data?
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Should Customers be Paid for their Data?

From a retail perspective, below the outline, more at the linkShould customers just be paid for their data?   by Guest contributorWise Marketer StaffIn light of...

Foundational Barriers to AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Foundational Barriers to AI

Interesting ideas from surveys by McKinsey.    About value of AI at scale.  Foundational changes to make it work.   I take it somewhat differently.  This was the...

AI and Loyalty Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Loyalty Marketing

A non technical look at the idea, with expert opinion.What does artificial intelligence mean for loyalty marketing?    by Bill Hanifin with further expert opinion...

Digital Twins in Maintenance and Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Twins in Maintenance and Manufacturing

Not a new thing, but a new thing done this systematically.  Like to see it also attached to general process and use AI pattern recognition and broader analytics...

Smart Speaker Stats
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Smart Speaker Stats

And much more stats at the link:Amazon sold 10.4 million smart speakers in Q3 2019, three times more than Google’s 3.5 million devices  in Voicebot.AIAlibaba lead...

Enterprise Adoption of AI?  Ask Watson.
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Enterprise Adoption of AI? Ask Watson.

A re positioning  which is interesting.    More at the link.IBM Pitches Watson for Enterprise AI Woes in InformationweekIBM says that Watson can help enterprises...

Future of Chatbots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Chatbots

An extensive look at the technology and future.   True they will become very important.   I have seen the change already occurring markedly for low-level technical...

Learning from Mistakes
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Learning from Mistakes

Ultimately most important.  How do we learn from mistakes, and the contexts that created those mistakes?  A form of causal reasoning that we found most useful in...

Example's of ISPs Use of Personal Data
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Example's of ISPs Use of Personal Data

Mentioned a Mozilla letter to the US Congress on the use and sale of personal data.  I am using it as part of a discussion today regarding the value of data.Inhttps...

Alexa Goes Multilingual
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Alexa Goes Multilingual

I was brought up in a multilingual household, so the environment has always interested me.  I use Google assistant that way today.  But can I start a sentence in...

6 Degree Intelligence
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6 Degree Intelligence

Brought to my attention, note in particular the use of graph theory and strong data visualization.  Looking deeper:6 Degree IntelligenceIt’s getting harder to find...

Amazon's Planned New Grocery Store
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Amazon's Planned New Grocery Store

Speculation on what Amazon is doing, with expert thoughts.Amazon confirms it will open a grocery store not named Whole Foods  by George Anderson in RetilwireWhen...

On Reverse Mentoring
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On Reverse Mentoring

Good overview of the concept.   Before the term was invented, we had a technology team which 'mentored' executives and key approaches.   Is not only about tech,...

End of Advertising
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End of Advertising

Links to a number of talks on related  topics:The End of Advertising  in Andreessen Horowitz  by Connie ChanWhen Advertising isn't EnoughEditor’s note: It’s Summit...

Deep Learning Hit a Wall?
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Deep Learning Hit a Wall?

Insightful piece.  Have started to slow movement towards intelligence?   I think it even more fundamental than that, we still cant provide complex context for the...
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