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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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Rand Says AI Could Protect the World
Used to have good connections to Rand Corp, but not so in recent years. Liked some of their work regards design and risk. Some remarkable statements quoted here...
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Wal-Mart Mobile Checkout
This could get lots of people trained in the idea of mobile checkout, beyond just Wal-Mart. Check out the full articleWalmart’s mobile checkout trial is a major...
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Wal-Mart new Website Design vs Amazon
Like the mention of 'Choice and Control'. And thinking of retail as therapy? Not really quite a science here, but reasonable design considerations.This Is ...
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Sony, CMU looking at Cooking Robots
The idea of further looking at task oriented interaction with recipes, techniques and recipes. As a long time cook, and having worked in the Food industry. Also...
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Calm Software
We were members of the MIT Media Lab for some time and I got to visit many times. The most unusual and intriguing part of it was the 'Tangible Media Group', which...
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Symantec Detects Threats with AI
Had some conversations on threats as specific patterns of behavior, by people or agents. Seems there is lots of data of this type now being gathered to train systems...
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The Nature of Shopping for Gen Z
How much are specific 'generations'. Still have my doubts about how different the generations are. Still worth paying attention to understand measures involved...
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Expectations of Communicating with Brands
The bar has been set high. Communications yes, but meaningful conversations are yet another thing. We did early experiments there, and found it tough to maintain...
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Measuring Innovation
Includes video. Standards of measurement are always useful.Taking the measure of innovation By Guttorm Aase, Erik Roth, and Sri SwaminathanDon’t overlook the...
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Amazon Wants to Build a Home Robot
Been following the Kuri as an existing example. An Alexa with wheels sounds like a bit much, but they already have an existing infrastructure to build on.Bloomberg...
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McKinsey on the Frontier of Artificial Intelligence
An 80 page non-technical overview of AI today. Perhaps not enough detail, but a useful exec view of where we are, where we are going , and some reasonable domain...
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Minecraft Content as Business
A virtual world made of process rather than place? And adding a business model? Good descriptive piece. And how Microsoft is supporting the idea.Inside Microsoft...
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Blockchain Jargon
Not enough detail, but still interesting, Might be useful to add at least a Wikipedia link to each. Further an example of practical use in each case.A glossary...
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Wal-Mart Humana Partnership
New partnerships, and in-store implications.5 Ways A Walmart-Humana Partnership Could Change Everyone’s In-Store Experience By Bryan Pearson If Walmart’s reported...
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Emerging Markets Innovation
Chief executive says the company’s innovation pipeline may be the strongest it has ever been. By Keith Nunes in Food Business News.Emerging markets, innovation...
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Casinos Watching for Weapons
Good to watch what the Casinos are doing, as we did, they have immediate risk with regard to assets, so are closer to investing logically in advanced methods in...
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NASA Using Smart Contracts
Been examining applications of smart contracts in general, and also as implemented by Blockchain architectures. Here something new from work by NASA. NASA...
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Real Time Data, Real Time Decisions
Useful introduction. Note the usefulness in many domains, from supply chain to manufacturing to finance. There were some also some recent suggestions that this...
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What is AI Anyway?
A definition we also struggled with. Back then it was rule bases and much simpler learning analytics and updating. Much has improved, but the expectations are...
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