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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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Robots in Skype Need to Augment Meetings
Not normally a user of Skype, but I have some correspondents who use it. So I revisited the current Skype system as I needed it. There has been some controversy...
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Amazon Alexa Connects with 20K Devices
Impressive. But what is more important, the ability to be a working part of an IOT, or to be further along creeping towards conversational intelligence? In the...
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Baidu Develops No-Code AI Platform
Baidu in China continues to do some interesting things. Good, as long as 'no coding skills' also means generating an architecture that promotes maintenance and...
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The Considerable Value of Accidental Pinhole and Pinspeck Cameras
I was reminded of 'accidental pinhole cameras', when observing a solar eclipse last year, You can commonly (and safely) observe the phenomenon when seeing thecameras...
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Influence of Blockchains
Now that I have taken a look at non-blockchain architected distributed ledgers (See Iota's in the tags) its useful to think again about their broad usage in industry...
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Google Search Gives you Relevant Subtopics
A considerable advance. It does also complicate things, you get more information, and perhaps you just want the right information. But it is a noble experiment...
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Blog Statistics Update
I comment on this blog's milestones from time to time. Now it has been around in this form since 2005. It existed in previous internal enterprise versions since...
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Future of Rolling Assistants: Temi
Now that the Kuri assistant has failed, will there soon be more smart speakers with cameras on wheels to come at our command, mix drinks and fetch our slippers?...
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Predicting Earthquake Shocks
An example of application we saw early on for neural pattern prediction, now coming to fruition. Here in Nature. Other apparently subtle, but important linksArtificial...
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Shopping Virtual Wal-Marts
Wal-Mart takes you to the virtual edge. Never thought of them doing this, but here they are. How much will it entice, engage? So is this meant to be a view of...
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AI and the Better Hand
Games have always been a good testing place for AI. Now that Chess, Checkers have been professionally 'solved' with AI, other games with randomness and behavioral...
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Crowdsourcing Training Data for Corn Identification
A classic way to get training data.Researchers use crowdsourcing to speed up data analysis in corn plantsIowa State University News Service By Fred LoveIowa State...
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Uses of AI in Marketing
Some obvious, and some examples not so. Some are well known examples I would call analytics.9 Applications Of Artificial Intelligence In Digital Marketing That...
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Insurance Companies Help Protect the Home
I was asked some time ago by a commercial insurance company if I though it would be useful to offer commonly available assistants that could be linked to home protection...
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Shifting Decision Making
Quite a suggestion in the title of this piece, Will it, can it? Augment it in both areas enough to change the nature of decision?Why AI Will Shift Decision Making...
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Google Home Links with GE, Electrolux Appliances
Not unexpected, assistants interacting with common appliances. Rather than build your own smarts, make you appliances work with others. Back to creating and...
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Getting Machines to Learn Like Children
Our own experiments in the area of machine learning, or even recognizing trivial patterns and repeating them when needed, were far more simple. Where does the...
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Kroger Creates Partnership with UC for Innovation
Note other partnerships methioned in the last paragraph such as with Centrifuse.Kroger creates partnership to boost innovation in Winsight Grocery BusinessKroger...
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Business Process Modeling and Simulation
Been re-visiting a book I used long ago. I only have the first edition, but its still useful as an overview of the methods. Also a good intro to simulation...
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