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Defining AI to Tune Expectations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Defining AI to Tune Expectations

Correct, the expectations are still much too high for the term AI, and too confused for related Analytics.   Narrow applications are here (again) but now can more...

Data, Analytics and Product Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data, Analytics and Product Management

Obvious need,  and application.  Doing it well is the challenge.Apply Data and Analytics Skills to Make the Best Product Management Decisions  by Deacon D.K. Wan...

What Machine Learning Can and Cannot Do
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Machine Learning Can and Cannot Do

Very thoughtful piece and blog by a former correspondent. Not very technical.A blog by Irving Wladawsky-BergerA collection of observations, news and resources on...

Healthcare Personalization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Healthcare Personalization

Makes sense,  have seen it myself, it also suffers from over regulation, which can look like unpersonal as well.  Cleary a potential for disruption.How Personalization...

Alibaba Cloud ET Medical Brain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alibaba Cloud ET Medical Brain

Chinese Advances in Healthcare AIHow Alibaba Cloud ET Medical Brain Is Transforming Healthcare with Artificial IntelligenceDevelopments in medical sciences have...

Toolkit for Deep Learning Vision
From The Eponymous Pickle

Toolkit for Deep Learning Vision

Was pointed to this. for potential use for an application:GluonCV — Deep Learning Toolkit for Computer VisionAuthor: Mu Li, Principal Scientist at Amazon Translated...

Modeling a Simple Organism
From The Eponymous Pickle

Modeling a Simple Organism

http://openworm.org/OpenWorm is an open source project dedicated to creating the first virtual organism in a computer.Why?Because modeling a simple nervous system...

Morse Code is still Here
From The Eponymous Pickle

Morse Code is still Here

Remember being trained on Morse, then it seemed to go away ... but no,  it still has assistant applications beyond being a (now) obscure point on mystery theater...

RapidMiner Embeds Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

RapidMiner Embeds Machine Learning

Over the years we actively used RapidMiner for analytics.   Good to see them advancing their connected capabilities.  Will followup to examine.Press Release:RapidMiner...

Stanford AI Recreates Periodic Table
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stanford AI Recreates Periodic Table

Fascinating example.   Could this kind of structure be sought elsewhere?  Thinking it.Stanford AI recreates chemistry’s periodic table of elementsIn a first step...

Description of Enterprise Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Description of Enterprise Blockchain

To the point and non-technical.The blockchain beyond bitcoinTaking blockchain technology private for the enterprise.   By Jim Scott in O'ReillyCheck out Jim Scott...

Superminds and the Nature of Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Superminds and the Nature of Work

Interesting piece which uses my alma mater Procter & Gamble, as an example.  We struggled with some of these problems, linking human capabilities and artificial...

The Breadth of Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Breadth of Machine Learning

Some useful and in my experience correct ideas.   Its still hard to produce and learn general intelligence.  What worked for us was to be as narrow as possible,...

Retail Supply Chains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retail Supply Chains

Useful examples, more detail would be useful.  We note that CPG company Unilever's was best.In  Supply Chain DigestAnother View of the Best Supply Chains   by Dan...

Deep Mind and Abstract Thought
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Mind and Abstract Thought

 What is abstrsact thought, and how do IQ tests track that?   Closer to what we might call common sense, or really uncommon?DeepMind AI Takes IQ Tests to Probein...

PwC Looks at the Job Market under new AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

PwC Looks at the Job Market under new AI

AI Won't Kill the Job Market but Keep It Steady, PwC Report Says In  Forbes   By Parmy OlsonA study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) researchers of wide-ranging...

D-Wave Models a Quantum System
From The Eponymous Pickle

D-Wave Models a Quantum System

Had a brief connect with DWave for applications in business.  Continue to think possible applications areas.   Especially combinatorially complex possibilities....

Let's Try to See Clearly on Blockchain for Advertising
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Let's Try to See Clearly on Blockchain for Advertising

Have been asked to examine this.  Of interest.Blockchain is simply too slow to work for the real-time aspects of our programmatic trading world,  By Jaisimha Muthegere...

Jaron Lanier on Behavior Modification
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Jaron Lanier on Behavior Modification

We connected with Lanier long ago on and in virtual worlds.  He does not like it when people he doesn't agree with seem to be keen on altering his behavior.  Or...

Microsoft Piviots to Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Piviots to Deep Learning

I doubt if Microsoft is playing this wrong.  I agree though that other forms of intelligence are also worth investing in, like better ways of providing intelligent...
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