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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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Google Quantum Supremacy?
Quite a tease here. Have they really reached this goal? And what was the nature and form of the problem? See much more below. And at the link.Google researchers...
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Apple Overton Leading to Code Automation?
Increasingly moving towards automating many aspects of coding. In fact robot assistants that 'observe' the coding process could readily insure that secure, robust...
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India Planning Big Face Recognition Program
Both China and India underway. Will we regulate it away?India Planning Huge China-style Facial Recognition ProgramBloomberg By Archana ChaudharyIndia plans...
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Cubans using Cryptocurrency
An example of how cryptocurrency is getting around regulation. Laundering money.Skirting U.S. Sanctions, Cubans Flock to Cryptocurrency to Shop Online, Send Funds...
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Advancing AI in the Workplace: Ambient and Voice
Not un-expected, further intrigued about how much of it will be 'ambient', that is happening in the background and alerting the employee, and how much of it will...
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Pitfalls of Customer Participation
Tech will continue to make this more complicated ... and increasingly in real-time. You can control employees in specific ways, but customers usually only statistically...
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Technical Look at Electric Aircraft
A somewhat technical outline view of the challenges involved:Why don't we have electric aircraft? by Dries Verstraete, The Conversation in TechXploreElectric...
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Deep Learning Approach to Data Compression
Worked in a related space. Good high level description of what was done, but this is by its nature technicalIn Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) :A Deep Learning Approach...
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Oracle Plans Voice Digital Assistant to Integrate with MS Teams
Of interest because this implies that this assistant will integrate with office features, like Microsoft Teams. Below the introduction, much more in the article...
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Is Amazon Go Failing and if so Why?
Pace of adoption may note indicate longer term use. I think it will have the power of novelty if run well enough in the right context. Will continue to follow...
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Samsung Smart Things and Smart Home data
Been following SmartThings for some time. Here an interview about the management and securing of data on Smart Home Platforms.Smart home data is flowing for the...
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Amazon and Conquest Advertising
A term I had not heard in a very long time. Only Amazon and Google might be in place to do this.Amazon Rewrites the Conquest Advertising Textbook in ECOmmerce...
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AI Ethics Multi Country Partnership
Note the mention of human-centered AI, which reading on seems to be about bias/fairness. But its really also about how humans use/interact/are influenced byResearch...
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DOE Unveils AI and Tech Office
Another vote of confidence for the current emergence of AI, depending upon how you define it.DOE Unveils AI and Technology OfficeNextGov.comBrandi VincentThe U.S...
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China Suggests a Global Grid
Interesting idea, but I wonder if we can predict the future stability and/or trust of other countries to build and manage our power grid? Would require some evolution...
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Google Perspective about AI
No doubt Google is doing lots of internal and external work with AI, so their perspective about use is useful. Non technical and fairly balanced. CIOs: Here’sA...
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Google Assistant Advances Languages
Have now been using Google assistant bilingually for about a year, with multiple voices as I explore them. Impressive work, everybody needs language assistance...
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Where Blockchain Will be Delivered
Starting to see this trend, since the data involved is already in ERP and CRM.Gartner: Blockchain will be nothing more than an add-on for ERP, CRM softwareThe distributed...
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Breaking Things Productively
Have never used Chaos engineering, but the idea is interesting. Second read about the concept:How to Use Chaos Engineering to Break Things Productively by Sam...
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