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Human AI Collaboration and the Nature of Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Human AI Collaboration and the Nature of Work

 Via MIT Sloan.  Note the decomposition of jobs into tasks in context, which we also examined.Why human-AI collaboration will dominate the future of workAt theWe...

AI and Smell Digitization Classification, and Health
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Smell Digitization Classification, and Health

We actively worked on digitally reproducing the senses of smell and taste.   Both in their classification and their production.   In one case for taste of products...

Systems Dynamics and Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Systems Dynamics and Data Science

Interesting connection, though I have never heard of systems dynamics directly invoked in a business process model in a very long time.   Embedded yes in things...

Reactions to Images, Packaging as Password?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reactions to Images, Packaging as Password?

So could we use this differently?  Could your reaction to a product change its price,  or be a kind of loyalty connection?  Integrated with product detection in...

Free Books on Data Science and Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free Books on Data Science and Machine Learning

KDNuggets has been very good in pointing these out.    Very high quality.  Good price (free).  We live in amazing times.  Books that cover breaking technology insights...

Open Fog Consortium
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Fog Consortium

The Open Fog ConsortiumWelcome to the Fog Computing EraThe growth in IoT is explosive, impressive – and unsustainable under current architectural approaches. Many...

Fog Computing Meets the BlockChain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fog Computing Meets the BlockChain

Thought provoking idea.  If Fog Computing is computing on the Edge, especially in things like an IoT,  why think of this for a distributed ledger?  Because we don't...

Keras Workflow for Experiments
From The Eponymous Pickle

Keras Workflow for Experiments

I just reviewed and discarded several packages we used to experiment with neural nets in the late 90s.  Fairly easy to use, but little iterative architecture capability...

Kroger and Ocado for Delivery Options
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger and Ocado for Delivery Options

Kroger sees Ocado as key to its home delivery plans in FoodBusinessNewsKroger's deal with high-tech British retailer Ocado could lead to orders for its ClickList...

Machines Speaking for Themselves
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machines Speaking for Themselves

Pretty broad statement. What is the nature of this machine conversation?  The driving goal mentioned here of 'maintaining contact' is interesting.Machine Speak:...

Volkswagen Using Quantum Computing to Build Batteries
From The Eponymous Pickle

Volkswagen Using Quantum Computing to Build Batteries

Not quite understanding the physics and chemistry at work here,   but it is interesting that a major auto manufacturer is thinking this.  Will QC be used for combinatorially...

Joseph Novak and Learning/Sharing through Concept Mapping
From The Eponymous Pickle

Joseph Novak and Learning/Sharing through Concept Mapping

We very actively used some of Prof Joseph Novak's work to capture knowledge and use it to capture, understand and improve process.  That story is told in the Concept...

It will be About the Cobot
From The Eponymous Pickle

It will be About the Cobot

Not a new term: Cobot: Collaborative Robot. but fairly rarely used recently.  Does not have to mean a physical robot, but can also include collaborative AI systems...

Windows Collaboration Displays
From The Eponymous Pickle

Windows Collaboration Displays

Good possibility for retail applications.  The particular use of the word 'collaboration' is interesting.  Meetings, yes.  I had seen some good chatbot examples...

Versus Traditional Mergers and Acquisitions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Versus Traditional Mergers and Acquisitions

Interesting detail at the link. Why Traditional M&A Is Becoming Less Important   David Harding, Andrew Schwedel in HBR" ... Consider today’s trends in M&A. Companies...

Regulatory Uncertainty for Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Regulatory Uncertainty for Blockchain

 Some conversations I have had indicate that little regulation is in place.Regulatory uncertainty could stymy blockchain adoptionEven as companies seek to integrate...

Deep Learning Hunts for Signals
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Learning Hunts for Signals

Good, short, relatively non-technical view, but from a distinctly computer science perspective.    Which answer the questions that many of us have.  Why are weDeep...

Google Publishes its AI Principles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Publishes its AI Principles

On their blog, Just the intro, there is much more at the link. Well stated.    Though as a former defense department employee I wonder what their definition ofDefense...

Amazon Go Checkout-free Will be in Chicago
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Go Checkout-free Will be in Chicago

Will a good opportunity to see it in action. Will do a comparison with some of our own experiments, but wonder how realistic it will be in a high tourist and trial...

Learning from Process with Human Operators
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning from Process with Human Operators

Integration of human and AI learning processes.   A kind of focused crowdsourcing, where the operator scores machine learning and gets collaborative assistanceSelf...
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