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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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Companion Robotics in Japan
A space we followed as it was integrated into the smart home.Japan’s latest companion robot is the fuzzy, expressive LovotIt can beg for attention and follow you...
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Technology for the Deaf
And how people integrate technology into accessibility.Technology for the Deaf By Keith KirkpatrickCommunications of the ACM, December 2018, Vol. 61 No. 12,10...
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VW Uses D-Wave for Quantum Chemistry
VW Solves Quantum Chemistry Problems on a D-Wave Machine IEEE Spectrum By Mark AndersonVW Solves Quantum Chemistry Problems on a D-Wave MachineScientists say "...
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Risk of Facial Recognition
Its important to remember that the latest emergence of AI methods are not perfect, though much better than in the past, can produce erroneous results. This can...
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NVIDIA Announces first Personal AI Supercomputer
More at the link with registration: This DGX Station technical white paper provides an overview of the system technologies, DGX software stack and Deep Learning...
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Kroger Goes Live with Self-Driving Delivery
Seeing these live, commonly, will be the view of a new world.Kroger goes live with self-driving delivery vehiclesSupermarket giant sells You Technology digitalBy...
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The Goal of Automating AI
Good, lengthy and somewhat technical piece from O'Reilly. Worth reading. Quite a challenge out there. This will happen, and relatively soon. This is also...
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Harman and AT&T Advance Car Connectivity
I see that interesting third party car connectivity continues to expand. Was just offered a discount that includes a number of car connected services of interest...
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CSI Talk: Teaching Data Science
From last week's CSIG Talk, Speaker: Dr. Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Duke University:Suppose our goal is to educate the new generation of data scientists working on...
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AI Design Trend Inspiration
Several of my students looked at startups in the fashion industry, that had design, marketing and customer engagement angles, so this is interesting. Have not...
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5G is Here from AT&T
Been reading much about 5G. To what degree will it replace Wifi? Its in some cities this week in test.AT&T flips the switch on mobile 5G in 12 cities this week...
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ISSIP December 2018 Newsletter
The December 2018 ISSIP Newsletter: Institute of Service Systems Innovation ProfessionalsI often promote their work here, which includes work that often deals...
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Computers Recognizing and Labeling Images
We spent quite a lot of time in the late 90s addressing the labeling of photographs. So we knew it was hard in general. Now its become much easier. Whether...
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China Leads in AI Research
China to usurp Europe in becoming AI research world leader By Ashton Young in DataCentre NewsThe rush to understand and implement artificial intelligence (AI)At...
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Amazon Guard Takes a Step into Home Security
As announced recently Amazon will be starting to offer the Alexa/Echo infrastructure to listen into the home for security while you are away. Only some of their...
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Azure Services Examples Providing AI in Action
Interesting examples, all chat bot-style via Microsoft Azure AI services. I had some of these demonstrated last year, well done.AI in action. Three technical case...
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Quantum Neural Networks being Explored
In the Google AI Blog. Quite an interesting play here, updating neural nets in a quantum fashion. Two more technical papers pointed to. Faster, or perhapsExploring...
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Donald Knuth
I slogged and marvelled through his books when they came out starting in 1968, there are so many embedded gems. My friends at my first 'coding' job gave me aThe...
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger on Blockchain
A favorite writer of mine Irving Wladawsky-Berger, on Blockchain, makes some good points. Apply it carefully where it makes sense. As a Trust model is probably...
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