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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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A Data Driven Approaches to Sales
Had not heard of the specifics of this, interesting, especially regards the link to specific data, customers paying based on usage.A Look into Microsoft’s Data-Driven...
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Proactive Events in Alexa Skills
From the Alexa Skill Developer news feed, of interest, with an example:Send Timely Information to Your Alexa Skill Customers with the ProactiveEvents API By June...
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Threat Intelligence Handbook
I continue to follow the work of Recorded Future. They have updated their new handbook in an interesting way. Links to a favorite topic: Risk analysisA Closer...
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Blockchain in the Ad World
Don't quite get this, but intrigued by the advantages claimed and involved, beyond classic IT. The Blockchain Will Tear Through The Ad Market Like A TornadoThe...
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Kurzweil Interview on Future Arc of Technology
Of interest. Brought to my attention by Walter Riker.Kurzweil AIaccelerating intelligencethe TED Interview | Future Arc of Technology: a special conversationon...
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Practicality of Decision Trees
Good piece on the pros and Cons and design of Decision trees, which we often selected as a first approach when we addressed a problem. Not because we were certain...
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The Specificity of Algorithms
Algorithms imply a precise specification, and when I see one I always want a close specification of context and derivation.Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms...
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Robotics at Wal-Mart, Amazon and Kroger
A considerable overview of the many new announcements at major retailers. This will certainly change the type of jobs that will be available. Not unexpectedAmazon...
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Killing the Password
When we traveled in the enterprise we always took a key generating device with us as a means to replace the password, which was then combined with the use of aYour...
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Eye Tracking Helps Augmented Reality
Pointed at by some of our retail experiments.Eye-Tracking Technology Could Help AR The Dartmouth by Anthony RoblesDartmouth College researchers have developed...
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Architecture for Complete Talking Buildings
Smart homes are still built up in fairly unstructured ways. Mine still has pieces of it fail, and can be difficult to repair or add to if the supplier piecesThe...
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Microlearning and the Brain
Interesting idea for thinking about how to classify useful learning.Microlearning and the BrainMicrolearning is effective for hard skills but detrimental when it...
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Nature of Human Trust in Machines
This topic came up in a recent discussion of AI. Past evidence had said that in certain contexts people trust AI better than humans, simplistically because the...
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Radical New Neural Network Design
Less definition of the architecture it seems and training adapts to results.Radical New Neural Network Design Could Overcome Big Challenges in AI in Technology...
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Learn Chinese from a Smart Speaker
Have been experimenting with smart speakers to learn, teach and improve conversational language skills.Here is an example from Indiegogo. Note this is still in...
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Google to Stop Selling Facial Recognition for Now
Hmm, most everyone else will be selling face recognition products. Can they also be also be 'having no potential for evil'? Other technical topics of this sort...
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Mastering Conversations
In the Google Blog, some useful thoughts on conversations. We need to think about how we talk to machines, and with people. How the Google Assistant masters—and...
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Sensing in Complete Darkness: One Photon Per Pixel
Appears to be a very valuable development in a number of sensing domains.MIT engineers have found a way to use AI to reveal objects in total darkness–even transparent...
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Amazon and Medical Records
Amazon is Showing Healthcare is the Next Big Thing for Machine LearningAmazon will save Healthcare industry $Billions via machine learning algorithm that extracts...
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