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AI Governance Strategy
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Governance Strategy

Not much detail here, but governance in this space is important,  regarding the data and results from the analyses.    And how it relates to ongoing maintenance...

Buying By Voice Hard Sell for Consumers?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Buying By Voice Hard Sell for Consumers?

Thoughtful piece.   Yes, it does create a nervousness about making a mistake.  But if enough capabilities are included to attest to the credibility of a request...

Duplex AI and the Call Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

Duplex AI and the Call Center

Google is for now denying that Duplex will take over the enterprise call center.  And you should ask if just sounding and acting like a human is enough to makeGoogle...

Talk: System for Generating New Service and Business Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Talk: System for Generating New Service and Business Models

Please join us for the next ISSIP Digital Transformation Speaker Series (see details below, or click here).via Sorin Ciornei, Series Chair, Cisco Systems___________________________________...

Thinking about Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking about Machine Learning

Good thoughts, always read this, worth subscribing to at the link:Ways to think about machine learning  By Benedict Evans I work at Andreessen Horowitz ('a16z')...

Continued Conversations in Google Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Continued Conversations in Google Assistant

Gets the assistant closer to a true 'conversation'.  Just enabled it and tested, works well.   Still does not have memory from previous conversation, or setting...

Legal Sifter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Legal Sifter

Brought to my attention:  LegalSifterLegalSifter Essentials" ... Out-of-the-box contract review, curated by our global network of contract expertsStarting at $25...

Smart Contracts that Learn
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Contracts that Learn

A very useful next step, examining,Smart Contracts that Learn   by Michael Slinn in InfoQMicronautics Research CorporationView Presentation, talkMichael Slinn discusses...

Saturday Data Science Reading from DSC
From The Eponymous Pickle

Saturday Data Science Reading from DSC

Good Saturday Analytics and Data Science Reading from DSCAlways interesting, at various levels of complexity, join the DSCPosted by Vincent Granville Monday newsletter...

Times Series with RNN Neural Nets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Times Series with RNN Neural Nets

Been re-examining neural networks for time series models and forecasting.  In the long ago work of modeling with neural nets we had determined it was not useful...

Talking about and Measuring Emotions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Talking about and Measuring Emotions

Way back when we worked with MIT on measuring emotions when people interacted with our products, we discovered the difficulty of measuring this consistently.   Later...

GoToMeeting Links to Alexa, Voice Transcription
From The Eponymous Pickle

GoToMeeting Links to Alexa, Voice Transcription

Like to see the closer integration between voice intelligence and meetings.  A very obvious place to improve meeting efficiency and creating links for meeting supporting...

Autonomous Trucks in Logistics Centers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Autonomous Trucks in Logistics Centers

Makes lots of sense to experiment with this kind of approach where you have the most control.Autonomous Trucks for Logistics CentersBy Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft The...

On AI and the Erosion of Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

On AI and the Erosion of Reality

This gets back to  the whole question of transparency.  Yes humans have long been manipulating this.   The drawings on the cave walls to start with.   I remember...

Microsoft and Marks & Spenser
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft and Marks & Spenser

Not many details, but another example of retail likely using advanced machine learning pattern recognition approaches.  Particular mention of optimizing operations...

Penn on Blockchains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Penn on Blockchains

A long 12 page article in my alumni Mag on Blockchains.  With considerable emphasis on 'Smart Contracts'.   Uses in Medicine and Law and elsewhere.  Quite non technical...

A Guide to Ensemble Learning, with my Cautions
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Guide to Ensemble Learning, with my Cautions

Nicely done.  Ensemble methodology means using a number of different solution methods to solve a problem, and finding the best individual or combination of methods...

Was there a GE Model, and What Killed it?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Was there a GE Model, and What Killed it?

I was impressed by what I saw at GE in a number of interactions, they have been mentioned in this blog from a tech perspective a number of times.  Is it just because...

Uncovering the Details
From The Eponymous Pickle

Uncovering the Details

Good, detailed piece in the Tableau blog.   Have used Tableau in two large enterprises, and its a great tool.  But I further like the broader implication of the...

More Smaller, Multi Environment Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Smaller, Multi Environment Robotics

Out of Harvard.   Some of our earliest looks at robotics were where they might be used in varying environments.  So this is always interesting.  Expect them toHarvard's...
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