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Market Newsletter on AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Market Newsletter on AI

Nicely done:nathan.ai newsletter   By Nathan BenaichMarch 18 · Issue #24 · View onlineA market intelligence newsletter covering AI in the technology industry, research...

Retail Systems Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retail Systems Research

Brought to my attention Retail Systems Research (RSR) The Candid Voice in Retail Technology: Objective Insights, Pragmatic Advice .... The BOOT Methodology©To support...

Walmart Expanding Digital Focus
From The Eponymous Pickle

Walmart Expanding Digital Focus

Its inevitable to allow them to continue compete.  My impression is that they have always been good at utilizing emergent tech.Walmart is focused on expanding its...

Conversation with David Brin on AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Conversation with David Brin on AI

Have had some conversations with Sci Fi author David Brin on AI and privacy.  Look forward to seeing the contextual and speculative views of a science fiction writer...

Computing and Emotional Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computing and Emotional Intelligence

We worked with MIT on related systems.  Followed Rosalind Picard.  Most recently looking at what Watson has done with related skills emotion and personality detection...

Likley Jobs Soon to be Automated
From The Eponymous Pickle

Likley Jobs Soon to be Automated

Not very surprising, these were mentioned  in the last go-around of AI Tech. Perhaps only less mentioned before, jobs that had a high robotic component that required...

Always Out of Balance: Looking for Equilibria
From The Eponymous Pickle

Always Out of Balance: Looking for Equilibria

Nicepiece, which includes a short, easy to understand video  that explains the basics of the Nash Equilibrium.  We sought to use these methods to understand competitive...

Kroger and Embedded Machine Learning Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger and Embedded Machine Learning Analytics

Good to see how much work Kroger is doing in advanced analytics, congrats to my friends there, we worked with them in the innovation area, always following them...

Talk: Adversarial Risk Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Talk: Adversarial Risk Analysis

Of interest in particular, due to the adversarial element.   Risk analysis does not often enough consider the intelligent nature of agents that create risk.   Competitors...

Brainstorming Killing Creativity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brainstorming Killing Creativity

Always thought there was a flaw in brainstorming, and was in many of them.  Brainstorming Is Killing Your CreativityOur go-to method for problem solving is majorly...

Alexa Capabilities in Japan
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Capabilities in Japan

Continued advanced of global assistants.  Because of Japan's work in eldercare, would not be surprised to see advances there.Alexa Voice Service now generally available...

Its all About having the Right Data and Metadata
From The Eponymous Pickle

Its all About having the Right Data and Metadata

Spent quite a lot of time figuring this out for analytics in the enterprise.Data governance and the death of schema on read  in O'ReilyComcast’s system of storing...

Animating Visualized Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Animating Visualized Data

Interesting piece in Observable on Animation of visualized data.  Which categorizes various kinds of visualization.  There has been an increase in these kinds of...

Attentive Assistant Makers Patent their Leverage
From The Eponymous Pickle

Attentive Assistant Makers Patent their Leverage

This article in yesterday's NYT discusses how companies who have attentive sytems, like Amazon and Google, have pending patents that describe how they can takeHey...

Informal Review of Mc'Donalds In-Store Ordering Kisoks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Informal Review of Mc'Donalds In-Store Ordering Kisoks

We did lots of work with kiosks, standard and novel, in our innovation centers.  And I am always ready to try them as they appear.  Most recently McDonald's has...

Seeking Interpret-ability and Explanation as Components of our Brain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeking Interpret-ability and Explanation as Components of our Brain

Modeling the apparent structure and resulting operation of the brain is difficult ....   We have lots of neurons gathering data,  and interacting in ways we doT...

Weaponization Moment for Computer Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Weaponization Moment for Computer Science

I worked at the Pentagon in early years, so understand the direction.  Your 'competitors' are doing it, so you have to consider it also.  Even then there were capabilities...

Microsoft Launches Org to Focus on AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Launches Org to Focus on AI

Another push on AI.  So then its not Hype?   Because a big company that knows what computing is,  supports it?   That gets back to what AI is.  If its a new kind...

Maintaining Shopping Lists in Amazon Dash
From The Eponymous Pickle

Maintaining Shopping Lists in Amazon Dash

I got a note from Amazon yesterday, indicating that one of my Amazon Dash items had been discontinued.  And offered me a long list of substitutions.  Have now been...

Apple is Hiring Assistant Smarts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apple is Hiring Assistant Smarts

Expect to see some further rushes in this space"Apple goes on hiring spree to improve Siri's smartsIt's determined to challenge Amazon and Google in the AI space...
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