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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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Quorum Based Computation
More approaches being developed for Smart Contracts. Seems still under development.What is Qubic? (Much more here about the development)In short: Qubic beganQuorum...
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Inventory Problem Using Machine Learning
As a long time supply chain optimizer and design hack, this intrigued me. And the pattern by product type interested me too.Machine learning: A solution to backorder...
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Bots Changing the Way we Buy
Thoughts on bots and buying. Curation comes up. It also works with things as 'simple' as search. You freely initiated it, but it also has curation in mind...
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Question Bursts
Never liked classic brainstorming, here a somewhat different take. Its on the list to tryHere's How 'Question Bursts Make Better BrainstormsTempering Your Urge...
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Google Turns 20
Nice selection and useful description of key events of the last 20 years. I was user-involved for all of them, as a public and/or enterprise user and manager....
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Judea Pearl on Causality Tools and Machine Learning
Causality scientist Judea Pearl looks at causality and some of the limitations of machine learning systems. Technical paper, but useful scan for practitioners...
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DARPA Underground Challenge
Saw this announced and at least at first did not understand it. Clearer now, quite interesting regarding the environments involved. Have a friend who is connected...
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Microsoft Working New Cortana Skills Set
Been disappointed by the capabilities of Cortana skills in relation to Google and Amazon, especially supporting supporting their office capabilities. Now new enterprise...
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Considering Interpretability
Good look at what interpretability is. My view is that to interpret means to understand what it means in developed context, and in future. The context I usually...
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Berners-Lee Says we can Control our Data, and Need to do it Now
But ow will this influence the economics of the Web in the last decade? Will the economics be there to continue to drive its development? Or will it go back to...
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Training AI Agents in Virtual Worlds
Had heard of similar methods in VR for training before, tried it for retail examples, how do we know training will be complete for the proper later context of...
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Using Confirmation Bias for Advantage
As someone with an engineering rather than a marketing background, I always thought confirmation bias was a bad thing. But not necessarily. Perhaps obvious ,...
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Book Review: Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Always worth keeping in mind.In Experimentia:Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the Worldby Meredith BroussardMIT Press, 248 pages .... A guide...
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Future of 3D Displays
Another areas we looked into for retail engagement. Seen many test examples but each had considerable limitations. Are we finally approaching clear possibilities...
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Microsoft Says Unified Search will be Coming in 2019
Announced at Ignite, details at below. Good idea to make search be a service that operates uniformly among multiple MS business services. Also among multiple...
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AI, Brains and Smell
A favorite topic because we were very involved in how to sell in context influenced smell (and aroma) neural interaction that led to purchase. Here some new understanding...
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Open source Monitoring with Prometheus
Open source monitoring, good detail at the link. The word monitoring by itself always attracts me, it means we can understand things in operation, and better...
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True Category Management
A strategy, and then a means to link its goals to a set of processes to achieve them.The foundation of True Category Management By Daniel Lohman, CPSAOrganic...
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What is AI? How should we do Future Research for Application?
Excellent look at what has been achieved in AI, and how it relates to what we call intelligence. Are we taking the right approach to look for yet better solutions...
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