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Accenture Keynote: AI Benefit to Business and Society
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Accenture Keynote: AI Benefit to Business and Society

Well put.Raising AI to benefit business and societyKishore Durg explains why deploying AI requires raising it to act as a responsible representative of the business...

Procter has the Factory of the Future
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Procter has the Factory of the Future

Lots more opportunity to make these innovations work elsewhere.P&G’s second-oldest plant called ‘factory of the future’     By Barrett J. Brunsman  – Staff reporter...

Sonos Links Music for Assistants with IFTTT
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Sonos Links Music for Assistants with IFTTT

Makes lots of sense.   I experimented with the detailed music stream that IFTTT captures to look at something like this.  Right now most assistants watch your music...

Choosing the Optimal AI Algorithm
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Choosing the Optimal AI Algorithm

Automating aspects of deep learning is an obvious next step.   Note also the method described here is an evolutionary algorithm.    Consider also that the selection...

Consumer Goods Companies Driving Growth
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Consumer Goods Companies Driving Growth

It was clear for decades, prediction of product growth was the key. In McKinsey, a considerable piece:"  ... From lab to leader: How consumer companies can drive...

ISSIP Monthly Newsletter
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ISSIP Monthly Newsletter

The most recent issue of the ISSIP newsletter.    Worth a look.   Have been a member for years.   More here:The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals...

Engineered AI Still Matters for Question Answering
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Engineered AI Still Matters for Question Answering

Upcoming CGI Meeting on a crucial area of AI application.Via Karolyn Schalk, ManagerExecutive and Technical Expertise, Cloud, AI and IT OperationsSept. 13 10:30...

AI Eye Tracking of 200 Eye Movements
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AI Eye Tracking of 200 Eye Movements

What appears to be a deeper kind of Eye movement biometric analysis than is common.  Dealing with both enhrent traits, and also real time changes?  Note that the...

Echolocation Robot
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Echolocation Robot

Besides navigation is also doing classification of objects it encountersBat-Inspired Robot Uses Echolocation to Navigate By Kenny Walter, Tel Aviv UniversityResearchers...

Inspecting and Picking up Objects
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Inspecting and Picking up Objects

Would seem to lead to the ability to generalize picking up objects in a complex domain, such as the home or office.   I had thought this was solved long ago, but...

AI Improving Education
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AI Improving Education

I think its mostly showing how we can find patterns, then isolate those patterns for better and faster solutions.  Education then is a means for better using the...

Proposal for Quantum Foundries
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Proposal for Quantum Foundries

I usually think of quantum as the world of the very small, a foundry as the a big thing  so this proposal struck me.NSF Proposes $25 Million in Grants to Set Up...

Augmentation Fallacy?
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Augmentation Fallacy?

Interesting piece, which uses the chess example to understand what AI can do now, and how it might be used to improve the workforce.   In the past the use of Chess...

Amazon Go Continues to Expand: NYC Next
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Amazon Go Continues to Expand: NYC Next

Will check free start to become the standard?   Other retailers cannot ignore this.  Major ones are already testing it.  Implications for store behavior when money...

Machine Translation vs Human
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Machine Translation vs Human

Been reexamining he process of language translation, especially as it relates to real time assistant interaction.  This points out that full document translations...

Getting Your TV to Understand You
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Getting Your TV to Understand You

Its  the ultimate challenge, understanding complex context.  Good direction.Understanding in Context   University of Waterloo NewsResearchers at the University...

Sinapore Broadens AI Skills,Training
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Sinapore Broadens AI Skills,Training

Will be interesting to see how this works.  We had some interaction with University groups there and they were impressive at the time. Singapore Broadens Access...

Consumer Loyalty and Amazon Dominance
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Consumer Loyalty and Amazon Dominance

Hmm, quote something to worry about for big CPG.    All that money they have spent over the years in establishing loyalty can be overridden, depending on product...

Working Together
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Working Together

Collaboration is occurring.Russian and American Scientists Collaborate to Create Faster Internet    By Shelby RogersResearchers at Samara Oblast University in Russia...

Google Wants to Kill the URL
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Google Wants to Kill the URL

This really struck me .... I remember reacting to my first understanding of the concept.  Aha, they are universal locators!    That's very good.  So why are they...
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