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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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Quantum Hype and Skepticism
Short piece looks at both sides.Quantum Hype and Quantum Skepticism By Moshe Y. Vardi Communications of the ACM, May 2019, Vol. 62 No. 5, Page 710.1145/3322092...
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RSR Research on Clouds
Brought to my attention:The Candid Voice in Retail Technology: Objective Insights, Pragmatic AdviceRSR is the candid voice in retail technologySince our founding...
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The Risks of Artificial Intelligence
Having now been involved in many applications using AI oriented methods, it was rare that there were not risks in their application. We saw them all. From legal...
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Scientific American on Deep Learning
Scientific American does a good job of providing a good, intuitive and largely non-technical view of the math and applications of deep learning. Good for use...
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Automating Science Writing
How different is this from script writing mentioned previously? Accurate summarization of text is another example of a challenge for AI type methods, similar...
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McKinsey on Automating Logistics
Good description of the space and the large opportunities.Automation in Logistics: Big Opportunity, Bigger uncertainty Via McKinsey by Ashutosh Dekhne, Greg...
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BPA, RPA or DPA? Automating Process
Interesting piece, with criticism of robotic process automation. It has somewhat focused application I agree. Contrast of options is interesting. I like the...
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MuseNet Writes Music
OpenAI does some things with generating music. Back to the meaning of creativity, will we ultimately be able to tell?MuseNetWe’ve created Musenet, a deep neural...
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Machines Firing Humans
First I had heard of such a thing, certainly the PR would be bad enough to add a human in the loop. Somewhat skeptical, but perhaps a warning of the future.Amazon's...
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Workplace Surveillance
Agree that doing this more universally will much chage the workplace. Indications are that Amazon has closed the loop for warehouse workers, but the the ideaAI...
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Supply Chain Integrity Month
Had not heard this was a month, note here from Recorded Future, but the topic is very important. Some good free resources at the link on related threat intelligence...
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Automating Ethics
Very good piece. A difficult problem.Yes as get closer to embedding ethics in systems and machines,how do we address this? By just warning the humans in the...
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Wal-Mart AI Store of the Future Opens to Public
Good to see this, and new competition with Amazon in brick and mortar. Look forward to learning about other technical details. How about their Fresh Block chain...
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Wal-Mart's Food Safety Blockchain
For an upcoming talk, took a re-look at the Wal-Mart's food safety Blockchain effort. Will be following up with more details. good simple example, as stated in...
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Where are my Robot Servants?
Note from 5 Years ago, note what has happened, and what has not.So, Where Are My Robot Servants? In IEEE SpectrumTomorrow’s robots will become true helpers and...
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AI Sensor Environment Chip
More players in the stream for enabling analytics AI from sensor data.AIStorm raises $13.2M for its analog data-reading sensor chips By Mike WeatleyAIStorm, a...
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Institutions that last Ten Thousand Years
We had early interaction with some of the founders of the Long Now Foundation, which was very thought provoking. Here an interview with its Exec Director in the...
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Autonomous in Body Navigation
A considerable development.A first in medical robotics: Autonomous navigation inside the body in TechExploreBioengineers at Boston Children's Hospital report the...
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IBM Maximo for Civil Infrastructure
A considerable move, including IOT and AI powered solutions.IBM to Develop an AI-Powered IoT Solution to Help Clients Manage and Monitor Aging Bridges, Tunnels,...
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