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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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Procurement in Retail
Have noted the broad increase in quality and sticking of private labels. Also linking these labels with other purchases in retail. Advances are in play. Considerable...
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Smarticles for Robotic Locomotion
New means of locomotion provide new options for robotic use.Shape-Shifting Robot Built from 'Smarticles' Shows New Locomotion StrategyGeorgia Tech Research Horizons...
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Knock it with a SmartPhone to Identify
Here a system built in South Korea that lets you knock on an object with a smartphone, and it identifies it using sound and motion sensors. We worked on problems...
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Removing Bias from Predictive Modeling
Podcast of interest from Wharton re Bias, Podcast at the link.Wharton's James Johndrow discusses his research on removing human bias from predictive modeling.Predictive...
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Learning More Efficient Allocation
Consider other possibilities for real time efficiencyArtificial intelligence could help data centers run far more efficientlyMIT system “learns” how to optimally...
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Volkswagen and AWS Web Services
Back to how much we can share, remove silos, and get data efficiently to various kinds of analytical engines.Volkswagen Group’s landmark project with Amazon Web...
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Normal Looking Smart Glasses
Perhaps one of the biggest problems with smart glasses, their appearance. This Indigogo project introduces Norm Glasses, which addresses that problem. With the...
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Should Companies have to Pay for your Data?
Some work is going on to figure this out. But will we get all the freebees we have come to expect?Should companies have to pay you to use your personal data?...
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AI is not An Excuse
Internet founder Vint Cerf does a good job putting out a cautious view on the current use of AI. In theory good research, development and value should never be...
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Mini Tutorial on Probability
A nicely done mini tutorial, very clearly done, essential stuff. The intro to the book and Bayesian also very useful.How to Develop an Intuition for Joint, Marginal...
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Increasing System Trustworthiness
An ultimate challenge, especially as systems start to morph into assistants with their own data, knowledge, and yes 'intelligence'. What are the the risks involved...
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Gaming as a Service for Hospitality, Decisions? Defense?
Intriguing possibility. Branded gaming, say in a assistant device in a hotel. Or including gaming in an analytics sense to simulate multiple assistive options...
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Digital in Construction
Somewhat surprising given their engineering focus.Decoding digital transformation in construction Few engineering and construction companies have captured the ...
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What Will You get from the Blockchain?
Short, non technical view. Not quite enough support for the premise, but intriguing. Notable piece on the Blockchain. Worth a look.How Do You Stand to Benefit...
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Rebooting AI: The Future of General, Trustable AI
In the process of reading Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis' book: Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We can Trust. Nicely done, starting with a history...
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Virtual Reality to Train Robots
A kind of crowd sourcing and simulation to gather training data. But will it cover the outliers that need to be considered for risk analysis? Japan continues...
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Autonomous Systems and AI
Automation always adds new elements of risk in application. So IT groups have to start thinking differently when autonomous systems are built and implemented...
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Companies Need to Develop their Own Data
To understand complex patterns in consumers, to support with methods like Big Data or Machine Learning, we need lots of data. Here an example of whats being done...
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Project Zenkey to Use Phones to Authenticate
The idea is that your phone and phone number will act as a secure identifier. I like the general idea, but expect general mistrust in large carriers to emerge...
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