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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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AI, Humanity and Civilization
A future look at AI. I think too pessimistic, but suggests some cautions about how we will need to utilize it. Augmentation rather than autonomy may be the best...
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Inability to Reproduce Results: A Crisis
Its the scientific method. I have seen many examples where you could not recreate the context involved, but the results were accepted as proof, because theyAn...
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Mining Scientific Applications by Analogies
This could also be done inside a company to look at publications like technical reports, and then also linking those to external publications as well. Driven...
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DAML: Contract Language of Distributed Ledgers
Quite an interesting piece on contract languages and 'Smart Contracts". A recent proposal made me look deeper into this idea, especially as it might connect to...
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Speeding Up Learning Inference by 2X
New methods, technical:New Technique Speeds Up Deep-Learning Inference on TensorFlow by 2xby Anthony Alford in InfoQResearchers at North Carolina State University...
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IBM Gifts Supercomputer to MIT for AI Models
Summit architectecture still has the record for calculation intensive models.IBM gives artificial intelligence computing at MIT a liftNearly $12 million machine...
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New Discipline: Machine Behavior
Yes, behavior is important. In biological behavior we don't claim to understand all of the mechanics involved. So we accept the complexity being beyond simple...
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Spotting Objects Among clutter
Key for any kind of real-world application.Spotting objects amid clutterNew approach quickly finds hidden objects in dense point clouds, for use in driverless cars...
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Baidu Surpasses Google in Voice
No surprise with volumes of people talking. And further, since progress in this space can often depend on the volume of data that can be used to develop deeper...
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Solutions for RansomWare Attacks?
Increasing number of Ransomware attacks. What is the solution? Caution with opening received messages certainly, better offline backups of all essential data...
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Deloitte Launches Blockchain Demonstrator
Helpful idea to have out there, since the process involved is still mysterious to many.Deloitte launches ‘Blockchain in a Box’ hands-on demonstratorThe consultancy...
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Monetizing Your Dark Data
Worked several projects along these lines. Good provocative thoughts here. More links to process using data and the means to monetizing that description of business...
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Appian and Business Process
Happened to look at Appian which we used in the enterprise.We used them for BPM (Business process management) And we talked to them first around 2007. Had some...
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Assisting Visually Impaired Web Browsing
Screen reading plus voice assistance. Good idea.New Tool Makes Web Browsing Easier for the Visually Impaired University of Waterloo NewsAugust 20, 2019Researchers...
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Data Labeling
We worked with both the crowdsourcing methods for this and automated methods. AI's New Workforce: The Data-Labeling Industry Spreads Globallyin Financial Times...
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Papercraft Inspired Math
I had previously reported on the use of Origami and Kirigami for real problems, here more out of Harvard:Papercraft-inspired math turns any sheet into any shape...
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More on Imminent Audible Captioning
Recently have been reading/hearing long texts in Audible and Kindle, usually non-fiction. So gaining an appreciation for the difference in the way we utilize...
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Qualcomm Won't Have to Offer Patent Licenses Yet
Intriguing insight to antitrust vs patent licensing. Note the embedded predictive aspect included here. Predicting Qualcomm's income from patent licensing?Qualcomm...
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Pfizer Using Mutiple Data Sources for Shopper Insight
Makes sense to get multiple sources, at very least to check the accuracy of predictions. And inthis case because shoppers usually go to many places, tracking their...
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