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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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Hacking Back: An Active Defense
Interesting thought, but am not sure I would want to get into the battle with the hackers. Still may be a place someone will have to go to provide an active defense...
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Sharepoint Virtual Reality
We experimented with similar ideas. How do you immerse yourself in messy data? In information architecture. We never thought of Sharepoint as a place to start...
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Acer Ships with Alexa
Seems to hurt Cortana, but Cortana will also be installed on these same machines along with Windows 10. But as mentioned, Cortana has been poorly marketed, especially...
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AI for Smart Houses
The AI we are using today is simplistic, where will it grow?Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence Leading the Way to Smart HousesIn the Baylor Lariat (TX) By...
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Microsoft Buys Semantic Machines
Towards more conversational machines. We spent many years trying to figure out how analytics, systems and machines could better 'understand' the meaning of data...
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Replacing Powerpoint with Narratives
Stories are good, when constructed well. What if you just want the essential and concise points to carry away. Narrative also has the stronger possibility of...
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Smart Diapers Design with Sensors
Used to work at a company that competed in this space. In Design, manufacturing and marketing. Will this compete?Alphabet’s Verily has a “smart diaper“ design...
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Crime Matching with GEDMatch
Interesting this has just become apparent, genetic matching starts to work against increasing stored data and matching. Shows the power of cowdsourced databases...
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Tesla Releases some of its Code
Intriguing, but as you might expect, the autopilot is very technical. Tesla is not known for releasing its source code. Hardly directly understandable, butTesla...
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Potential of Data Science
Towards a better definition of data science.Realizing the Potential of Data ScienceBy Francine Berman, Rob Rutenbar, Brent Hailpern, Henrik Christensen, Susan Davidson...
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Gartner on the Value of AI: $1.2 Trillion
Such valuations are always difficult. But it can be expected to be high if it truly augments human effort.Artificial intelligence will be worth $1.2 trillion to...
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Blockchain Definitions
A thoughtful set of definitions:What is a blockchain?Unpacking the complexity of blockchain, term by term.By Mike Loukides May 17, 2018Read "What are Enterprise...
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Judea Pearl Criticizes Machine Learning
Quite interesting view. Pearl's view is interesting. Bayesian networks in particular has shown a more broadly insightful and transparent view to modeling than...
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AT&T Builds a Dash-Like Button
Always thought there was a place for simple buttons to link to IOT networks, to make requests of many kinds, beyond just ordering something. Why doesn't IFTTT...
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Business of Artificial Intelligence
Good statement of expectations, what it is doing, what has been promised, delivered and not, and where it needs to go. As a practitioner, I have seen it allBusiness...
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How to be a SystemsThinker
Podcast video interview. Its a good idea to create deep understanding. But shallower understanding sometimes leads to things that are useful, there has been...
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OpenAI Lets Robots Learn from Hindsight
In IEEE Spectrum.OpenAI Releases Algorithm That Helps Robots Learn from HindsightIt's not a failure if you just pretend that you meant to do it all along By Evan...
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Smart Speakers Show us What AI is
I do like the way that Amazon is promoting citizen construction of skills. Will this beat out the professional delivery of assistant intelligence? Probably the...
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Google's Selfish Ledger
Remember this from then, but at the time not too much in the way of reaction. Now there seems to be more caution regarding what large companies can think about...
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