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On the Creativity of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Creativity of AI

A long time question of mine, will AI subvert creativity that occurs normally when we normally do tasks?   Or will AI do that as well?AI Is More Creative Than You...

A Look at the ­­­­­ses of RPA
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at the ­­­­­ses of RPA

­A useful examination of RPA.  Robotic Process Automation.   What we did starting in the 80s, without calling it that.     I see a number of new businesses looking...

Exposed Cloud Databases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Exposed Cloud Databases

Been following occasionally TWIT Security Now podcasts.   In part to start thinking about the risk of data.  Came upon this quite alarming cloud security  podcast...

Making the Web more Secure, Optimized
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making the Web more Secure, Optimized

 A very good goal.  Considerable article on the approaches at the link.   Something needs to be done regarding security, before the whole thing collapses.  Also...

Retail as Theater
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retail as Theater

Being close to Jungle Jims near Cincinnati, and have taken many international tour groups there,  so its a long time interest.  Hard to pull off, but always makes...

State of Competitive Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

State of Competitive Intelligence

Get the full report at the link. For a long time was part of my work at the enterprise.2019 State of Competitive IntelligenceThe Latest Best Practices, Challenges...

Advanced Packaging Solutions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advanced Packaging Solutions

One of our favorite topics in innovation space enhancement of both protection and consumer engagement.Packaging solutions: Poised to take off?  in McKinseyMajor...

Responsible,  Ethical AI?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Responsible, Ethical AI?

Thought provoking.  Responsibility should be linked back to the business outcomes that emerge.  But you could argue that AI and analytics methods allow these to...

Rewarding Autonomous AIs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rewarding Autonomous AIs

Thoughtful piece.    Can a human just provide some sort of reward function?    Or is creating that alone very hard?  Especially if we include some measures of risk...

Brain Simulation with 3D games Hardware
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brain Simulation with 3D games Hardware

Perhaps, but there is still considerable work to do in understanding how intelligence works in the brain.  Exact replication still seems to be far away.Computer...

Patrick Winston,  AI Pioneer,  Dies at 76
From The Eponymous Pickle

Patrick Winston, AI Pioneer, Dies at 76

We met Patrick Winston at MIT, and worked with many of his students and colleagues.   Also used his book 'Artificial Intelligence',  as a basic text during ourProfessor...

Enterprise AI Strategy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enterprise AI Strategy

Useful overview of what it takes.  Integrate it with real process, real goals, real results,  not just small tests.Anatomy of an enterprise-scale AI strategyLooking...

Augmented Reality Changes Real-World Behavior
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality Changes Real-World Behavior

I would expect, but will it change the specific useful goal behaviors in the real world?Augmented reality can change your behavior in the real worldEven after you...

European Public Procurement Knowledge Graph
From The Eponymous Pickle

European Public Procurement Knowledge Graph

Quite interesting view of how this kind of knowledge can be represented and exercised in semantic representations.    Driving key decisions in context.  Also aResearchers...

Kroger Data Platform for Brands
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Data Platform for Brands

A means to get value from data.Kroger's 84.51 Launches Customer Data Platform for BrandsStratum could be additional alternative revenue stream for retailerBy Rebekah...

Missing in Action
From The Eponymous Pickle

Missing in Action

Former colleague wrote this excellent book about his civil ancestor based on decades of research.  Just finished.  Very good read.MISSING IN ACTION, 1863: Lieutenant...

Apple Crypto Wallet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apple Crypto Wallet

Have not heard any more of this.  Considerable detail at the link.Apple may be prepping to turn your iPhone into a crypto walletApple's CryptoKit is likely the ...

ICub Robot Imagines itself in the World of Others
From The Eponymous Pickle

ICub Robot Imagines itself in the World of Others

New directions and capabilities of AI in robotics.The iCub is the humanoid robot developed at IIT as part of the EU project RobotCub and subsequently adopted by...

Will Malware ­se AI?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Will Malware ­se AI?

 Very Likely.  Should we also be looking for the traces of AI online to identify Malware?   Fraud?   Scams?  While this example is about malware. Consider thatReport...

Getting Data to Drive Decisions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Data to Drive Decisions

Some of the earliset work we did was to engineer ways we could get data to decision makers.  Visually if possible. And to groups of people that could formulateData...
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