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New Mobility Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Mobility Lab

Brought again to my attention.   Innovation about mobility decisions and technology advances.New Mobility LabNEW MOBILITY LAB INNOVATIONNew Mobility World® is a...

Seeing Where Sounds are Coming From
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeing Where Sounds are Coming From

We worked on sound location detection to support product placement and marketing.  Also syncing audio and video experience.MIT PixelPlayer “Sees” Where Sounds Are...

Musical Octaves Are Learned
From The Eponymous Pickle

Musical Octaves Are Learned

A bit of knowledge about how the brain works in context.   Gives us a hint about how to use the broad biomimicry we like to use to build our own intelligence models...

Bixby Ramps up Development and has a Contest
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bixby Ramps up Development and has a Contest

Here much more on how Bixby voice assistant works, its general architecture, and how they are promoting development.  Also notably some advice from an award-winning...

Voicea Acquired by Cisco for Webex
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voicea Acquired by Cisco for Webex

Just Received, we tested the Voicea system last year as a potential means for an 'in meeitng' participant-assistant'.    It seemed to have great potential.   Now...

Microsoft Enters RPA Market
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Enters RPA Market

Just saw a hint of this earlier this week, and now more detail.   They should play well here, given what I saw developed using bots with Azure.    Microsoft, make...

On the State of AI Writing
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the State of AI Writing

Good considerable piece on efforts underway to allow AI's to write.   Its being done, but still not so well.   Should writers worry?  They can now relate basedA...

Voicebot Market Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voicebot Market Data

I see that Voicebot.ai has a market data section that covers generally the use of Voice assistants and related topics, like the overall market and data about individual...

Considering Google's Teachable Machine
From The Eponymous Pickle

Considering Google's Teachable Machine

Was reminded of this as a means of demonstrating and playing with the idea.   Writing a short piece on its limitations now a few years later.  Thoughts?Google created...

Bayesian Networks and Conditional Independence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bayesian Networks and Conditional Independence

Came up in a conversation about representing knowledge.Conditional Independence — The Backbone of Bayesian NetworksConditional Independence Intuition, Derivation...

Photoshop Selecting Objects with AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Photoshop Selecting Objects with AI

I recall doing lots of this kind of work early on, the power of automating it is considerable.Photoshop's latest AI-powered tool makes quick work of selectionsAdobe...

Computational  vs Good Thinking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computational vs Good Thinking

Much agreed.  Its just one way to think.Computational Thinking Should Just be Good ThinkingBy Mark Guzdial, Alan Kay, Cathie Norris, Elliot SolowayCommunications...

Microsoft's Hybrid Strategies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft's Hybrid Strategies

Good piece which support Mary J Foley's recent appearance on Twit:Microsoft's Hybrid 2.0 strategy: Azure Arc, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge explainedAt Ignite...

TensorBoard for Free Testing of Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

TensorBoard for Free Testing of Machine Learning

Google announces a means to test for free machine learning experiments.  Nite that the data used is pubklic and un-secured.  Includes visualizations and operation...

Turning Inventory into Profits
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turning Inventory into Profits

Via McKinsey.    Depending on the industry, demand for parts and costs involved.Turn Slow-Moving Inventory into Fast ProfitsFor industrial-services organizations...

Reducing Defects in Assistant Commands
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reducing Defects in Assistant Commands

We need much better interpretation of commands, in context.     Alexa has failed in this from the beginning.     Now word it will do much better?  But can we greatly...

Seeking Digital Identity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeking Digital Identity

On capability long considered for blockchain was assuring identity.  Just published draft guidance below. FATF Releases Guidance on Global Digital IDs as Use Cases...

HoloLens2 Available and Shipping Now
From The Eponymous Pickle

HoloLens2 Available and Shipping Now

Considerable overview piece from Microsoft.  They are now hooking it to a number of capabilities such as Dynamics and Azure driven Edge Computing.    Impressive...

Estimating from Small samples
From The Eponymous Pickle

Estimating from Small samples

 A common example we touched often on in consulting within the enterprise.  Though the new methods have made this ever more crucial.Estimating from small random...

Bixby Views and Touch
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bixby Views and Touch

Saw Bixby early on, was not impressed.   Is it now emerging?  Touch it says will be included, which I did not see.Bixby Views is What Every Voice Developer Wants...
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