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Russia Has a Chat Assistant: Alice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Russia Has a Chat Assistant: Alice

 A global trend. More conversational? Yandex mentioned here previously.Alice In Putin’s Wonderland: How Russia’s AI Assistant Compares To Siri And AlexaThe assistant...

Talk: Business Process and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Talk: Business Process and AI

Upcoming next week, a favorite topic of mine ... About linking analytics directly to operational and strategic models of process.  Analytics now also means the19...

Monetizing Data to Produce Data as an Asset
From The Eponymous Pickle

Monetizing Data to Produce Data as an Asset

A topic we followed and experimented with for years.   What has been added now is also the risk of holding data.   Consider risk analysis.   Good piece:Monetizing...

Getting the Most from AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting the Most from AI

Attended this webinar last week from MITSloan, very well done. Here is a description and link to the recording.On Demand: “Five Strategies for Getting the MostMany...

AI Chips Advance Smarter Devices
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Chips Advance Smarter Devices

Very good overview of the nature of chips that enable AI on the edge capabilities.  New capabilities for the IOT.  And who is doing what in delivering new hardware...

Apple Homepod lagging?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apple Homepod lagging?

Homepod will get many purchases simply from the wave of Apple zealots, and the audiophile speaker,  but is that enough?  Do the assistant aspects do well enough...

New Amazon Skill Builders Guide
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Amazon Skill Builders Guide

Amazon puts together a nice doc about building voice first experiences.  Linked to below.  Mostly rules of thumb to make things work.   And they have lots of data...

Your Brands Voice at Risk
From The Eponymous Pickle

Your Brands Voice at Risk

Good cautions, but how different from other ad channels?Don't Let Alexa or Siri Speak for Your Company: Protecting Your Brand's Voice on AI PlatformWith the rising...

Blockchain and the Supply Chain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blockchain and the Supply Chain

Another example of the technology.   Similar it seems to what Wal-Mart has been experimenting with.  Still don't don't see why this is necessarily better than a...

Voice Separation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voice Separation

Simple but powerful idea.  Have gone through voice training on several assistants.  This takes it further.  Note the idea of separating components of a conversation...

More on Location Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Location Analysis

They may differ on the value, but its almost always done and reviewed closely.  Sure there are differences in its use among different kinds of retailers.  Consider...

Pizza and a Game?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pizza and a Game?

Pizza and game?  There have always been attempts to find multiple value contexts to deliver to a customer.  Loyalty, and delivering it via the internet, is one....

Siemens and Process Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

Siemens and Process Mining

Note always the potential connection between process mining and business process modeling, to set the stage for more value, and to guide future process mining.Siemens...

Data as Feature
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data as Feature

Good approach, start with and feature the data as it exists in value producing context.“Data as a feature” is coming. Are product managers ready?By packaging and...

Jupyter and Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Jupyter and Data Science

Agree, good overview,  your analytics people should be there.  To discover methods and ook towards reproducibility, aid with maintainability.  Even as a manager...

Reinforcement Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reinforcement Learning

Lengthy musings on the capabilities of Reinforcement Learning.  Which in one way feels very attractive, but as a former classical optimization oriented analyst,...

Bots in the Twittersphere
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bots in the Twittersphere

A quite interesting view of Bots in the twittersphere.  From PEW below.  Useful definitions.   Which points out that they are not close to mostly out to make mischief...

Supercharging Simulations with GPUs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supercharging Simulations with GPUs

Makes lots of sense since machine learning utilizes lots of simulations to train, check and deliver results.   So why not use the same hardware to simulate real...

Machine Learning and Blockchains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning and Blockchains

(This post will be updated with more information before the talk)Tomorrow, April 11 2018, at 10:30 AM ETCognitive Systems InstituteSpeaker: Awa Sun Yin Talk: “Breaking...

Update: Blockchain Applications Classification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Update: Blockchain Applications Classification

Slides and recording of the talk given on April 5, 2018:Excellent talk on effort that seeks to classify and track practical applications.“Assessing the application...
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