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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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NRF on Retail Customer Reaction to Technology
Some very useful anylyses of NRF surveys:Robot in the Room Survey analysis by National Retail Foundation (NRF)Consumers’ choices in term of where, how and whyFor...
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Tiny Motor Does Tasks, Create Subunits for Construction
We had talks with aneil Gershenfeld in the early days of 3D printing. Like much the idea of such devices creating others. Being 'subunits' like amino acids....
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Kroger to Create Digital HQ in CIncinnati
More Kroger plans locally for digital expansion.Kroger Co. will create a digital headquarters in downtown Cincinnati.By Erin Caproni – Digital Producer, Cincinnati...
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Genetic Algorithms Revisited
We used Genetic Algorithms a few times, but turned out it was rarely useful for the kind of marketing and supply chain problems we encountered. Often because...
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AI for Manufacturing Specializing Design
Manufacturing design example. Details at the link. AI-designed heat pumps consume less energyby Laure-Anne Pessina, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in...
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On the Science of Breakthroughs
Saw a number of cases of this in the enterprise. Ownership often misplaced.The Science of Breakthroughs: What Holds Some Ideas Back? Podcast and discussion transcript...
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Free Update of Online Encyclopedia of Statistical Science
An excellent and considerable online free resource for data science, analytics and statistics. Covering over 600 methods and concepts. Many visualizations of...
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Insect Robotics
For some time Harvard has been the nexus for small robotics. For small, swarming or sensor tasks.Unleashed, Robo-Insect Takes Flight The New York TimesKnvul Sheikh...
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Assistants Need Connections
A fundamental idea, the ability to use skills to build up other skills. Reminds me of object oriented programming. Will this work usefully at the right levelAmazon...
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Simulating the Ledger in Context
Simulation has always been a favorite tool. Create a space that includes the context and metadata of an environment for some need. Then build a means to explore...
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AI Still Creating Jobs
Some good details here:Is AI killing jobs? Actually, it added 3x more than it replaced in 2018By Lydia Dishman in FastCompanyAn oft-cited McKinsey report that predicted...
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Mobile Productivity Sensing
Inevitable perhaps, but is it Big Brother or will it be interpreted that way?Can mobile sensing tools boost worker productivity? in Retailwire by Tom Ryan with...
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AI Cameras for Theft
Again likely to be adopted commonly, if at least for liability. We saw it in European future stores a decade ago.Walmart uses AI camera tech to track checkoutIt...
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State of AI Report
Looks to be a good resource, subscribe.State of AI Report 2019 By Nathan Benaich and Ian HogarthArtificial intelligence (AI) is a multidisciplinary field of science...
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Unifying Logical and Statistical AI With Markov Logic
As AI practitioners in the enterprise we understood this early on. You need to know the results of statistical analysis AND the ability to link them usefullyUnifying...
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Is an Utterance Relevant to a Conversation?
Everything has a context (and relevant metadata). And in any conversation we need to test for relevancy. You say something and we are quick to say, or think...
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Challenges for Machine Driven Marketing
Considerable challenges involved. Like the concept of 'guardrails', though the measurements involved need to be well established. Return, risk, behavior? Think...
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Building a Computer Vision Model
A simplified, straightforward tutoral on a computer vision model. This is the place you can get something impressive out of neural nets, and an intro to theFrom...
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EU Regulates Linguistic Burger Purity
Am always a bemused observer of my homeland. And ultimately its about language, and how things are expressed. The apparent explosion of 'meatless' burgers is...
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