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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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Plant Breeding Towards Goals
Goes along my agriculture and botany threads. Some exiting things happening in this space. Most recently my interests have been in horticultural innovation,...
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Ethics of AI in Asia
How will this differ from Europe and the US?Public and private actors in Asia are working to define regulatory frameworks, build a trusted AI ecosystem, and maintain...
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Microsoft Makes AI Debugging Tool Open Source
And with similarities to Google's What-If tool, Microsoft has made its debugging tool open source. Have not seen this one directly as yet, but this is NOT a No...
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US Quantum Initiative
Considerable detail at the link on this effort.The Drive to Quantum ComputingBy R. Colin Johnson July 30, 2019 The U.S. National Quantum Initiative Act signed into...
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Google What-IF Tool for Code Free ML Visualization
Like the idea of visual tools that map with specific process, resource needs and output results. Leads to better understandable and resilient results.Google'sKalev...
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Activity Centric Computing Systems
Task completion and coordination with other agents has become important.Activity-Centric Computing SystemsBy Jakob E. Bardram, Steven Jeuris, Paolo Tell, Steven...
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Draft Security Feature Recos of IOT
Good to see this moving forward. Essential.NIST Releases Draft Security Feature Recommendations for IoT Devices National Institute of Standards and TechnologyBy...
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IBM, Chainyard Build Supplier Trust Blockchain
Intriguing play by IBM, using their Hyperledger Blockchain. Would seem also that 'smart contracts' would be natural additions to such an approach, to specify context...
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Future of Patent Law When AI's Invent
Recently posted about the implications of AI's being allowed to be cited as inventors. The following article in TechExplore further looks at how this could influence...
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Humans Assisted Cognitively
On assistance and related topics, humans doing more with less. Cognitive limits.Humans: Doing More With LessA Talk By Tom Griffiths in The EdgeImagine a superintelligent...
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Brand Originated Robotic Delivery
Consider it inevitable, but there are many consequences still not addressed.Will PepsiCo’s robots replace the pizza delivery guy on college campuses?By MatthewThere...
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GAN's Current and Research Work
Technical but interesting view of the current status, we experimented with GANs for some design-type applications. Emphasizing the 'collaborative' style of such...
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AI Augmented Knitting
Combination of design and planning production from templates is interesting. Designing other products by working from basic templates/goals and constraints would...
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Challenges of Automation
Former IBMer we worked with writes:Irving Wladawsky-Berger: A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology,The...
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Artificial Muscles
Intelligence for machines, but also superior strength?Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling forceNew MIT system of contracting fibers could be a boon for...
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Toyotas Impressive Self Driving Car
Impressive looking. More examples of self navigation research evolve from major playersToyota's latest self-driving test car is smarter than everIts 'compute box'...
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P&G Looks for Smarter Audiences
Good overview of the direction of my former employer. With mention of '1 billion consumer IDs to build audience segments' for more effective marketing. Some...
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Smart Phone on Your Smart Contacts: Samsung Patent
Long predicted, but how long will it take for AR glasses to not be needed? Still some details to work out here, but the drawings look impressive.Smart Phone To...
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Designing Designs
Our one time connection point at MIT's Center of Bits and Atoms talks about design of designs. And as he puts it 'Learning Representation'. In the interim we...
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