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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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The Sound of Your Brand
Former colleague Lou Killeffer continues to talk about the sound of your brand, essential in these days of in-home personalized assistants. Continuing to follow...
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Economy of Supply Chains
An economy of Supply Chains. Thoughts and Statistics.In HBS Working KnowledgeBusiness Research for Business LeadersThe Secret Life of Supply ChainsBy Michael Blanding...
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Dark Side of AI in Healthcare
This example requires making deceptive prediction based on goals. Expressing goals and being transparent about them is good, but can be problematic in context...
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Designing Neural Nets Faster
Automating the deign of nets has been a long term desire. MIT researchers have developed an efficient algorithm that could provide a “push-button” solution for...
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Video Analytics
Or will other advanced techniques remove checkout lines entirely?NRF: Is video analytics the solution to ending long checkout lines? in Retailwire by MatthewCustomer...
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Bootstrapping Techniques
Useful and good introduction. Was used long before AI techniques.The bootstrap. The Swiss army knife of any data scientistApplications of the bootstrap techniques...
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On Transfer Learning
Short, non technical introduction,with cautions.Transfer learning: the dos and don’ts By Chris von Csefalvay from Starchema BlogIf you have recently started...
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Interaction Insights in Alexa Skills
This piece was published last year, but gave me some interesting insight recently about usage of skills.Gain Interaction Insights Using New Analytics in the ASK...
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The Efficient Mathematics of Cells
Neural nets are great simplifications of how real neurons work, but have now been used to solve very tough computational goals. can other examples given by nature...
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Turning us into Artists with AI
Have long wanted to have a system that would improve our sketching and doodling into art. Or even just cleanws it up into a clear graphic sketch. Something ISmart...
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Motor Babbling Generates Data for Walking
Seeing some of these kinds of examples always makes me think of early AI work. If we could design very good learners (and re-learners) we could start them like...
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Humans Thinking Like Computers
Its well known that humans can be tricked by images. Computers too, and apparently sometimes in the same way. What are the implications? Can we have them check...
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AI and Patents in the WIPO
In a meeting a few weeks ago I asked the question about how findings using AI methods were being protected, and got a somewhat unclear answer. This perhapsWIPO...
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Explainable AI
Here some basic thoughts. Not necessarily an easy thing, we can't even fully explain what intelligent people do.An introduction to explainable AI, and why we ...
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Securing IOT in the Quantum Age
Its been long suggested that quantum computing may add new ways to break encryption. MIT says they have a way to prevent that.Securing the “internet of things...
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Gmail Functions will Soon Stop in IFTTT
This is very unfortunate, most of the functionality I used in IFTTT sensed Gmail. Apparently for security reasons? It shows you how you cannot rely on other...
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Ford to Build Autonomous Vehicles
Perhaps an indication that such vehicles are not far away. Note the specifics of manufacture goals quoted in the article.Ford to Build Factory in Michigan for Autonomous...
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Electrolux Allies with Google in the Smart Home
Smart homes move forward, the two major platforms continue to expand. Now Swedish maker Electrolux is embedding assistants. Many makers in the space are including...
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Computer Vision in Retail
From the Platt Retail Institute, thoughts on further use of computer vision:Computer Vision Is Here. Now What?By George Shaw, CEO/CTO, Brain of the StoreBy now,...
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