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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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Teams for Digital Procurement
Procurement a long time interest ... huge amounts of money involved, a classic place for better analytics.Digital Procurement: The Benefits Go Far Beyond Efficiency...
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Simpson's Paradox Again
Mentioned this topic once before, here is a more data oriented explanation, less technical and practical to real world problems . Everyone should understand this...
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ACM on Emotionally Sentient Agents
Designing Emotionally Sentient AgentsWelcome to the December 2018 Communications of the ACM. The full issue and related content is available through the CACM Issue...
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Wharton, MIT and BC Aim to Disrupt Global Supply Chain
Another example of verification and validation applications of Blockchain infrastructure, here in supply chain. Such applications are an ideal experimental first...
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When the Brain Switches Rules
An architectural approach for AI? A concierge like approach? Explicit rules, or just weights changed for perception, interaction? Architectural implications...
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Google Prepares for Work Skill Shifts
How Google.org is helping workers prepare for a digital skill shiftJacquelline Fuller, president of Google.org, shares how her organization is preparing for the...
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Office of Unified Communications
This was in particular was new to me, how can its services be applied to private and business needs? I have been asked.The Secret Sauce of Success – Recipe unveiled...
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Tagging Turns into Sensors
Intriguing, seems the RFID tag needs a redesign. Reminds me of our long look at tags for product identification in many contexts. Can their use be broadened...
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Voices of AI
Nice AI podcast series I just discovered. I would call these more technical, yet still very interesting. Note the aspect of storytelling that is included. Conversation...
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Wearable Music
New limits to music accessibility.New wearable tech lets users listen to live music through their skinIt's inspired by deaf fans of live concerts to help them "feel"...
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(Updated) Superintelligence Considered in New Context
Brought to my attention, a new book: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom http://www.nickbostrom.com/Reading. They write:" ... Superintelligence...
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Power of the Small Design
Always been intrigued by the power of the very small. There are big advantages of power and manipulation. Whether in the body or in space. Involvement ofInsect...
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China Proposes Social Credit System
Podcast and text ... excerptBeijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 in Bloomberg China capital plans ‘social credit’ system by end of 2020...
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Furhat: a Social Robot from Sweden
Been following the social aspects of robotics for some time. Furhat looks at it differently. But since its is not meant to have any particular purpose in mind...
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Polinode Documentation
I see that Polinode has updated their documentation. Impressive, worth a look." ... PolinodeCollect, Visualize and Analyze Connected DataNetworksUpload connected...
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Court Fight Over Commas
Although oddly its irrelevant, I worked at the Language Lab at Penn, followed Language Log Blog since it was a newsletter, So for unconnected reasons the complexity...
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Scalable Intelligent Systems
Quite valuable and a considerable challenge, see the full article.Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025 in the ACM By Carl Hewitt, who is an emeritus professor...
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Ditch the term Blockchain?
I agree, when hype exceeds reality you have to take great care. Start with a good business case.Via Fortune, a short talk by execs.Time to Ditch the Word 'Blockchain'...
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On IOTA in Forbes
Update on IOTA, I continue to follow, primarily different because of its innovative means of updating and validating its chain and contents.IOTA - Fulfilling the...
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