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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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Painting Streets with Augmented Reality
Not a new idea, though the approach is closer to making this work broadly. Why not start with existing mapping examples?Mapping the World in 3D Will Let Us Paint...
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Managing the Managers
More insertion of AI into daily interactions and tasks. Considering, when and how ... and how do you measure the uptake? The Robots That Manage the Managers ...
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Assistants Answering All Your Questions?
Good research being done here. Good points made, no they can't, but I think that they can be helpful in certain focused skill areas. We had lots of experience...
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Better Way to Use Predictive Analytics
Good thoughts about analytics using proxies. And the ever present issue of the lack of needed data. We often did something similar. Podcast and transcript....
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The Psychology of Selling
Some interesting thoughts on selling vs buying and how we arrange to influence the proposition.Selling Versus Buying By Frank Sarr in CustomerThinkThe Premise...
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P&G Direct to Consumer Very Quickly Growing
GMA Smartbrief quotes CNBC:P&G CFO: Direct-to-consumer category is "very quickly growing"(Procter & Gamble)Procter & Gamble is working to ensure its products are...
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Waymo to Build L4 Autonomous Cars in Detroit
A move ahead it seems. Coming soon to a road near you? We note that Waymo is part of Google via Alphabet.Waymo will build its self-driving vehicle fleet in Detroit...
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Market Basket Analysis
Some of the very earliest analysis (1970s) we supported in the enterprise were variants on market basket analysis. So I was pleased to find this relatively simple...
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Cloaking Resource Operations Data in the Cloud
Fascinating play. How this differ from methods like blockchains? Maybe better than BC methods?Creating a Cloak for Grid Data in the Cloud By Argonne National...
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Prescribing Fruits and Veggies
A clever idea, well worth a trial. Though there is usually no direct joy in prescriptions, unless they directly kill pain, so I wonder that they feed into the...
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Process Mining
A mostly historical look at process mining. Not a convincing enough view of why you should use it, and in particular link it to AI. Also its need to actual...
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Can a Computer Write a Script? Or an Ad? Or Manage a Marketing plan?
A writer of ads, or a manager of marketing plans learns what works based on results in context. So why not? The idea of 'a script' was used in the earliest...
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Accoustical Watermarking and the Second Screen
And yet more on context switching for the voice assistant. Here work by Amazon, to be presented at an upcoming conference. Originating from work to ignoreAudio...
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From Web to Blockchain
Fascinating historical view of the Web, is the blockchain a natural architectural extension?Moving Towards web3.0 Using Blockchain as Core Tech By Shahid Shaikh...
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Another Amazon Go Store
Why is Amazon building brick-and-mortar locations? In Supermarketnews:Amazon adds to physical retail footprint with latest Go storeJeff Bezos highlights importance...
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Wake Words for Assistance Context
Been experiencing the strange concept of a 'wake word' for a few years now. Its means of switching context ... saying that after I say this special word or phrase...
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Decreasing Drilling Costs
Subsurface data is voluminous and complex. So why not look at it to determine patterns of value? AI today can be defined as looking for patterns of data that...
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Data Science Mistakes with the IOT
Good, short and non-technical article. Obvious and useful. And I as I often add, carefully map the business process, get decision makers involved early andDon...
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Self Driving Expectations
Was recently interviewed on exactly this question. When? And what will the phrase include? Good piece.Are we There Yet? A Reality Check on Self-Driving in...
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