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Alexa Skill Blueprints
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Alexa Skill Blueprints

The details here are a big deal.  Makes it easier.   Now add more intelligence features.  Real surprise in user value is important.  Content of value please.Amazon...

AI Generating Value at Scale
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AI Generating Value at Scale

Agree, have seen first hand.From McKinsey Insights.AI adoption advances, but foundational barriers remainSurvey respondents report the rapid adoption of AI and...

Watson AI Services Now Work on Any Cloud
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Watson AI Services Now Work on Any Cloud

Broadening the compatibility with other infrastructures will help.IBM says Watson AI services will now work on any cloudin Reuters By Paresh DaveSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)...

Microsoft to Abandon Cortana?
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Microsoft to Abandon Cortana?

Microsoft may be doing this, but I still think there is a place for Cortana supporting Microsoft's business services.   Should be doing that already, it had earlier...

An AI Doorbell
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An AI Doorbell

Don't have the below, nor am I promoting it.   I have had three different doorbells to date.   I note this has just passable reviews.   Most troubling are those...

Watch IBM Think Live
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Watch IBM Think Live

Insights and innovation, streaming live from ThinkBeginning this evening with Pushing the Frontiers of AI: Project Debater at 5PM PT / 8PM ET, you can watch Think...

Global Analytics Research
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Global Analytics Research

Report: Global AI Research  By Alice Bonasio in MediumHow far has Artificial Intelligence research developed in the past two decades? Global information analytics...

Nuro Moves Forward
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Nuro Moves Forward

This is the company Kroger is working with to pilot autonomous delivery.    Following closely.Autonomous delivery startup Nuro picks up $940M from SoftBank   By...

Robots and Retail
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Robots and Retail

Good overview of the challenge.  It is here and cannot be ignored.Robots Address Today’s Retail Industry ConcernsJim Liefer, SCB ContributorPoint. Click. Ship.There...

AI Used to Strain-Engineer Material Properties
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AI Used to Strain-Engineer Material Properties

Conceptually quite interesting.   AI seems to be involved in controlling the combinatorically complex ways that strain can be applied.   Does not link to the article...

BERT for Natural Language Understanding
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BERT for Natural Language Understanding

Was just introduced to this again, worth a a look:BERT Technology introduced in 3-minutes   By Suleiman Khan, Ph.D.  in MediumGoogle BERT is a pre-training method...

Warnings about Risks in Algorithms
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Warnings about Risks in Algorithms

Quite interesting view.  But it exists in all analytic systems.    Not much mention of my favorite warning, changes in context over time.    And that's just one...

Contracts as Mechanisms
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Contracts as Mechanisms

Thoughtful short piece that explains SC's as neither smart nor contracts, but rather mechanisms, from a legal perspective. ... In FreedometoTinker:Abstract:This...

An AI Reading List
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An AI Reading List

Good examples in the space.  Some I have seen and read, some not.  Worth a selective look.An AI Reading List - From Practical Primers to Sci-Fi Short StoriesThe...

Trusting the Blockchain
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Trusting the Blockchain

Recent article just brought to my attention.   Schneier, a well known security technologist that I have followed for years.   Criticizes public,  consensus algorithm...

Blockchain and Government
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Blockchain and Government

Maybe so, but in recent conversations was struck by how nervous government was regarding the whole idea, especially how it seemed to be hiding certain uses of currency...

Self-Driving Cars May Cruise Rather than Park
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Self-Driving Cars May Cruise Rather than Park

This points to the possibilities of 'unintended consequences', which we have to watch for when building in autonomous tech.  But this alarmist view suggests that...

Data Governance and Knowledge Graphs
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Data Governance and Knowledge Graphs

Knowledge Graphs and Data GovernanceA Note from TopQuadrant's CEO, Irene Polikoff As 2018 comes to a close we took a look back at key topics that were of most interest...

Sentiment Analysis and Merchandising Calls
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Sentiment Analysis and Merchandising Calls

Quite a range of information is described. Can sentiment analysis improve merchandising calls?   by Brian Kilcourse in RetailwireThrough a special arrangement,Marketers...

Seeking Quantum Resistant Crypto
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Seeking Quantum Resistant Crypto

Its been suggested that quantum computing will break current cryptographic methods.  So work is underway to find quantum=resistant methods. Not mention of quantum...
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