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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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More Experiments with Checkout-Free
Experiments continue. Will this be inevitable in the near future? Certainly it will be less-stress, once consumers get used to the approach.Giant Eagle piloting...
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Nestle and Enterra for Intelligent Daily Business Decisions
We had talked to Enterra regarding supply chain applications. Intriguing company and solutions. Nestle's decision to automate complex decision making for CPGPress...
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Etsy Uses an Algorithm for Style
Interesting example, with forthcoming details. Note its alliance to something most everyone does today, utilize e-commerce. Look forward to seeing the details...
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Future of AI is Tiny
In O'Reilly, short excerpt from a recent conference by O'Reilly. Not too different than the use of small drones or tiny sensors.The future of machine learningPete...
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Gartner Pubishes first Magic Quadrant for RPA
Have followed RPA since it emerged, as a way to install logic in process to efficiently automate in-context tasks. Should be used in combination with AI and Big...
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Usupervised Learning is the AI Future
An outline of Yann LeCuns recent talk. See the LeCun tag below for links to talk and slides.The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason...
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Unilever: Virtual Plants via Digital Twins
Followed arch-rival Unilever for many years, always impressed by their tech expertise. We did some similar things, creating an experimental supply chain that could...
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Alexa Determining Skills for Customer Needs
Its ultimately a concierge type problem. How do we determine the best augmenting skill? Specified need, context, technical ability, past interactions .......
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Alphabet's Wing is Doing Drone Traffic Control
Could this mean we will see many more drones in the sky, now more safely managed and directed to tasks? Informative site:Empowering everyone to safely access...
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Micro Eye Movement Identification
We tested iris based identification. Here another biometric approach I had not seen, which claims better accuracy:DeepEyedentification: identifying people based...
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Power and Limits of Deep Learning By Yann LeCun
I mentioned this talk just recently. Here are the links to slides and talk.The Power and Limits Of Deep LearningACM TechTalk2019-07-11Yann LeCunNew York UniversityFacebook...
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Combinatoric Design
What to do when there are too many, but precisely specified choices. And a way to evaluate them. This has some interesting possibilities.Automated system generates...
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Intel's Neuromorphic Chips
Meaning chips that are closer in structure to neural networks, which themselves are just considerable simplifications of networks of biological neurons. The result...
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Marketing Creativity
Creativity via AI always an interest. Certainly creativity can be augmented by AI. But any augmentation has the ability to replace.Agencies’ creative perspective...
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How Much Knowledge Has been Created?
We explored this early on with image tagging in the enterprise. And while we have developed lots of specific usage cases, nothing as broadly usable as we wanted...
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Data Privacy in the Hands of the Users
Another privacy play of interest, have been exploring the intricacies and implications of several recently. Here adding metadata tags that indicate allowed uses...
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Zappos Uses Genetic Algorithms
Surprising application in place and an indication of multiple algorithms in parallel.At Zappos, Algorithms Teach Themselves The Wall Street Journal (with paywall)...
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Serious Games
Have long looked for games that were serious enough, and fun enough. Here at least the data is serious enough. But how do we connect very different goals? Perhaps...
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Expectation Influences Perception
Known for some time. Now how do we best make use of this in AI interactions? Can our brains be primed with signals to make them ready for interaction? Can...
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