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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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California Signs Data Privacy act for 2020
Yet another regulatory insertion to be interpreted and inserted:Companies Confront Calififornia's Version of GDPRBy George Slefo in AdAgeCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown...
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An Agenda for Talent First CEO
An agenda for the talent-first CEO A Book Excerpt via McKinsey QuarterlyBy Dominic Barton, Dennis Carey, and Ram CharanIn tumultuous times, a company’s talent...
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Flowcasting
Been a long time since we looked at JDA's Flowcasting system. We examined it even before its acquisition by JDA. Still don't know too may people who have been...
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Microsoft Andromeda
Foldable, pocketable, multiscreen. Is that disruptive? Look forward to seeing the format and how it can be used. Seems new hardware capabilities have beenMicrosoft...
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Math of Causation
Not to say we humans do this well either, but if we hope to have machines do it we have to consider how.Solution: ‘The Slippery Math of Causation’The all-too-intuitive...
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Definition and Use of Transfer Learning
Was pointed out to me that transfer learning was important to leveraging intelligence. I had heard of it, but sought out a closer look at definition and areas...
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Superforecasting Update
Just received their latest newsletter, of interest:Goodjudgment: How Can Superforecasting Improve your Decisions?Good Judgment’s co-founder Philip TetlockNow...
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Hospitality Experiment by Marriott and Alexa
I know of several other hospitality experiments going on, its a natural direction. Distinguishing, but will it save a hotel labor and resources? What skillsAlexa...
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Understanding Scenes Using Neural Nets
A powerful kind of visual intelligence, with many applications wen integrated with cameras and video. Ultimately this kind of 'common sense' style reasoning can...
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BlockChain Strategic Business Value
Good, considerable piece in McKinsey. A number of useful but general industry postionings and examples. Just a bare mention of definition of contracts and their...
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And Language Pros on Google Duplex
Inevitable that we will be doing lots more talking to machines in the future, get ready for it. Good read:What natural language pros are saying about Google’sWe...
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Kroger to Launch Driverless Delivery!
Quite a remarkable thing for a major retailer!America’s largest supermarket chain is launching a fully driverless delivery serviceKroger is teaming up with Nuro...
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Integrating Voice into Device Apps
Amazon continues to push voice driven apps. Now for their Fire TV. Have previously looked at their voice decision approach for the Alexa assistant. Well done...
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Ready to be Managed by an AI?
Course it does depend upon what managed means here. Tracked, reminded, directed? Some level of this will be inevitable. Note mention of assistants, what is...
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Deepdive with Deeplens
A good idea for testing out image driven machine learning.A Deep Dive on AWS DeepLens by Janakiram MSV in theNewStackTechnically speaking, you don’t need a $249...
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Google Re-demos its Duplex Chat, with Warnings.
Clever look at a chatbot that has a goal of delivering a phone goal. But when it was first shown it was clear it could fool and ultimately very much annoy the...
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Grand Challenge on the Future of Food
On the Future of Food:Converge on one grand challenge (FUTURE of FOOD).Two key words (SCIENCE and ENGINEERING).Three short URLs (SEP 8-9 in Minneapolis).http:/...
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Targeted Ads and Data Privacy
Surprising comments that there is still not clear understanding of what is required to comply. Thus the hundreds of checkboxes saying I understood that cookiesHow...
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Make KPI's Great Again says Sloan Study
Via Michael Schrage ....In Forbes.com Make KPIs Great Again, Study Urges Joe McKendrick , CONTRIBUTORFor every technology effort worth its salt, the output is...
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