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Driverless Pizzas to be Delivered before People
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Driverless Pizzas to be Delivered before People

Inclined to generally agree, general driver less delivery should precede driver-less vehicles with passengers.   If only for the liability and legal issues involved...

Fujitsu Human Centric AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fujitsu Human Centric AI

Was impressed with Fujitsu's work in retail when we visited.Fujitsu drives a human centric modelAI is a core technology which enables many complex processes toTo...

Baidu's AI Mimicing Voice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Baidu's AI Mimicing Voice

Baidu’s new A.I. can mimic your voice after listening to it for just one minuteBy Luke Dormehl in Digital Trends" ... “From a technical perspective, this is an...

Samsung TVs Controlled with Bixby Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Samsung TVs Controlled with Bixby Assistant

Rumor out there that perhaps Samsung would tap Alexa and/or Google for voice control.  But it seems they are sticking with their own Bixby voice assistant for controls...

Misinformation and the Wikipedia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Misinformation and the Wikipedia

Been a longterm Wikipedia fan.   And have also been directed to many, many examples of misinformation there.  But still use it daily.  So whats the solution?  Apparently...

Tags in this Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tags in this Blog

This blog contains tags at the end of each post which lead to related posts.   I do go back selectively and update these tags, especially as they relate to my current...

(Updated) Optimization using Genetic Methods
From The Eponymous Pickle

(Updated) Optimization using Genetic Methods

In our earliest days,  addressing supply chain and blending type manufacturing problems, we were an optimization shop.  Using the math structure of difficult combinatorial...

Sentier Strategic Consulting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sentier Strategic Consulting

Sentier Strategic Resources conducts custom research that helps our clients better understand and respond to the behavior, perceptions, and expectations of their...

Augmented Beauty by Modiface at L'Oreal
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Beauty by Modiface at L'Oreal

An area we did lots of research and development on.  Now based on this piece, it seems that the tech has finally caught up to the needs.   But will it practically...

Iterative Random Forests
From The Eponymous Pickle

Iterative Random Forests

New Learning Method:  Sees the Forest and the Trees".... Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and University...

Amazon Pickup Service in Whole Foods
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Pickup Service in Whole Foods

Witnessed the set up of this in a nearby Whole Foods today.  No additional crowding as yet.   Can see it as a specialized service offering, volume involved unclear...

Ring and Amazon
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ring and Amazon

I am a user of the Ring Doorbell, have been since their beginning.   So intrigued by the implications. New kinds of image data collection?  Amazon Key service has...

Google and Marketing Measurement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google and Marketing Measurement

Always have been impressed by Google's aim at better measurement, it is foundational, and not paid enough attention to.  Here some of their latest:Measurement matters...

Human in the Loop Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Human in the Loop Machine Learning

Attended a very good webinar today in the DSC series.  Strongly recommend joining DSC and taking advantage of their free resources.This Webinar answers the question...

Decision Support for Health Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Decision Support for Health Data

Good overview talk this morning on the complexity of gathering and analyzing health data for decision support.  With some emphasis on dementia data.   'AI' is used...

Augmented Reality Sensing Form and Depth
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality Sensing Form and Depth

Will this drive us to better augmented reality shopping?   At IKEA a few days ago I used some of their on floor furniture placement and design Apps, nicely done...

Optimizing the Usefulness of Chatbots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Optimizing the Usefulness of Chatbots

Still awaiting reasonably adept and useful chatbots that can do real conversation.  So below starts some key thoughts.  Tracking what the base of their knowledge...

Talk:  AI for Decision Support in Health - how to make it work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Talk: AI for Decision Support in Health - how to make it work

Upcoming CSIG Meeting:Date and Time :  Mar 15, 2018 - 10:30am US EasternZoom meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/7371462221Zoom Callin: (415) 762-9988 or (646) 568-7788...

Optimization vs AI to make things Better
From The Eponymous Pickle

Optimization vs AI to make things Better

I was reminded that my early experiences with government and enterprise systems dealt with the optimization of systems.  That is, the mathematical means of linking...

The Semantics of Image Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Semantics of Image Deep Learning

Google once again shows its impressive advanced AI/Deep Learning capabilities.     Which made me recall that it is often the 'semantic', or meaning in context aspects...
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