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On Attributes of Blockchain Value
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Attributes of Blockchain Value

Quote from: Currnt.comNew post to the Current Theme in the The Future of Blockchain in Retail & CPG Supply Chains Public PanelA new post was made by Steve Kuh in...

Contextual Assistants Needed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Contextual Assistants Needed

O'Reilly piece on the challenge of contextual chatbots. And beyond the need to keep track of past conversations and plan future goals.The next generation of AIChatbots...

How AI is Changing Sales
From The Eponymous Pickle

How AI is Changing Sales

Well known examples, but worth reviewingHow AI Is Changing Sales    By Victor Antonio in the HBRCompanies are using AI in all kinds of innovative ways to advance...

Conversations with Time Logic and Risk
From The Eponymous Pickle

Conversations with Time Logic and Risk

 This kindcof problem has just come up again.  How do we make the most out of a conversation? In specific contexts.  With defined goals?  With people, or combined...

What Marketers are doing Wrong with Data Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Marketers are doing Wrong with Data Analytics

Interesting podcast piece in K@W. Some useful cautions. The notorious p-hack is brought up again.  Its often used because is so easy to apply.  Simplicity Bias ...

Google Explores Podcasts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Explores Podcasts

In the past I ran an internal podcast in a large company. Have always been interested in podcasts as an information channel, but also one that that had issues,Google...

Faster Training for Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Faster Training for Deep Learning

Training, an re-training are important consideration for machine learning.  More detail at the link.Training Time Slashed for Deep Learning   By George Leopold ...

Hack to Get Amazon Alexa to Respond to ASL
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hack to Get Amazon Alexa to Respond to ASL

Had heard of this before, here are more details.  Still very much an early  prototype.   How close can this get to being very useful?   Below the motivation...Getting...

Requirements for an Enterprise AI Benchmark
From The Eponymous Pickle

Requirements for an Enterprise AI Benchmark

Invitation to the ISSIP Cognitive Systems Institute Group WebinarPlease join us for this call and invite your contacts - e.g., at universities, partners & clients...

Does Your Brand Need a Specific Assistant Voice?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Does Your Brand Need a Specific Assistant Voice?

One more time, we looked at this very question in great detail a decade plus ago. With our  'Mr Clean' brand.  And decided yes, it needed a specific voice, a culture...

Lenseless Camera Acting as a Sensor
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lenseless Camera Acting as a Sensor

 I recall this being discussed previously,  makes much sense.  A camera is already a sensor,  in Astronomy this has been used for some time with CCDs.Lensless Camera...

Albertsons Testing Go Style No Checkout
From The Eponymous Pickle

Albertsons Testing Go Style No Checkout

The idea continues to spread.  Will we ultimately be keeping our chard cards in our pockets?Albertsons to Pilot Amazon Go-Style Technology in Stores, at Gas Pumps...

Unilever Taps JD.com
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever Taps JD.com

Mor own agent models tried to understand the difference between rural and urban markets in China.  Here this is likely much closer to the problem.Unilever tapsUnilever...

SAP Pilot Tracks the SupplyChain
From The Eponymous Pickle

SAP Pilot Tracks the SupplyChain

Note the use of open source Hyperledger.  Probably the simplest application idea in blockchain.   Mostly food companies participating, which indicates sourcingSAP...

Making Dumb Things Smarter with LiveTags
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Dumb Things Smarter with LiveTags

Have now seen several inexpensive IOT add-ons being suggested along this same direction.  LiveTag Is Out to Make Dumb Objects Smart       In New Atlas  By Ben Coxworth...

Avoiding Hyper Personalization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Avoiding Hyper Personalization

Mostly we don't notice this until its pointed out to us.Brands are using AI to drive hyper-personalization, but can it also help them avoid being hyper creepy? ...

The Case for Competition
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Case for Competition

Providing results are fairly measured,  goals are clear.The Case for Competition  in Strategy+BusinessWhen team members face off, it’s the whole organization that...

Seeking Co-Creativity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeking Co-Creativity

Well of course, a kind of creativity augmentation.  But as the article suggests, Co-creativity takes it yet beyond.  Who/What initiates, develops, delivers?   Fascinating...

Rethinking Social Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rethinking Social Networks

How can we use this idea to think about the evolution of social networks over time, and how they are influenced.?   We talked the implications of networks withRethinking...

Robots Get Uncannily Realistic, but Why?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Get Uncannily Realistic, but Why?

Perhaps to engage, sell, enforce or to just prove it can be done.  Replace humans?  Mimic humans?  Put them in situations where humans should be present, but are...
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