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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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Amazon Addresses Counterfeiting
In the enterprise we spent much time in detecting and addressing, challenging counterfeit product, it was one of the earliest places we implemented machine learning...
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HoloLens 2 Open for Preorder
Early reviews seem to say it is a considerable improvement. Targeted towards business rather than games. Still quite expensive for the consumer, $3500 perHoloLens...
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Data, Data Science, Causal Thinking
"The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning," by ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Judea Pearl, describes tools that overcome obstacles...
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Beyond Worse Case Analysis
A look at the worst case in performance. This deals more with optimization methods, those that can find specific correct examples. So for example sorting a Video...
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Robots with Sense of Self?
We often found it useful, when modeling a conversation to introduce the 'self' aspect for concepts like memory, context and goals. These were not for guiding...
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TurboTrack for RFID Robotics and More
Recalling an application we might have used this.MIT Media Labs Creates Highly Precise UHF RFID for RoboticsThe TurboTrack system employs a standard tag and interrogator...
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Robotic Process Automation
Update on the advance of RPA. I don't often hear the excellent idea mentioned, many have not seemed to have heard of it, does it has a marketing problem squeezed...
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Small Coffee Farmers Seek Trust
And another example of Integrity-type usage .... Used to work in the coffee procurement and blending space, sometimes with small grower.. Might be an interesting...
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Strategy for Storing Clinical Trial Data with Blockchains
Here the goal example for using Blockchains is the integrity of stored results among multiple parties. Assuming some parties have an incentive to tamper withResearchers...
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History of Data Visualization and its Future
Good, detailed and lengthy piece. Remember many of the transitions. Now would like to see more and better analytics/AI visualization to add to this. And better...
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D-Wave Announces Next Gen of Its Unique Quantum Computing
Continue to follow this. Notably for its possible use for certain kinds of problems.D-Wave announces its next-gen quantum computing platform By Frederic Lardinois...
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Datafication is a Process
OK, specific terminology is new to me, but I can see the point. Being data driven is important, but getting there is also a process. Datafication. But does...
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Fedex Experiments with Autonomous Pods
I think we can assume we will soon see multiple autonomous delivery pods crawling (and perhaps later flying) all around the landscape. Waiting for unintended...
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Alexa Socialbot Reports on Grand Challenge
Following this effort. Have experimented with the bots to date. We still need more substantial results to make these approaches more powerful. True, meaningful...
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People and Process
Thoughts on process in Retail, not that often effectively utilized.Intersection of technology, processes and people by Jim FromeFrom the front end to the backend...
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Pre Learning to Address Data Gap
Brought to my attention. Common inadequacy of data. Pre-training? Priming the neural pump? Worth a good look.New AI approach bridges the 'slim-data gap' that...
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What are Knowledge Graphs?
Some good introductory resources from the recent Webinar:From TopQuadrant:Thank you for attending our webinar: "What are Knowledge Graphs? Why are they key ...
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Augmented Reality in an Empty Store
Clever idea. Makes some strong assumptions about how many people are outfitted for AR.Lego brings AR to an empty store by Tom Ryan in RetailwireOn FebruaryThe...
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Healthcare Hospital Assistant
Had previously mentioned an IBM powered hospital assistant system. Care was taken there to not deal with any patient data. Seems the same is true here withAiva...
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