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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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Assistants and Common Sense
Its actually not too often that assistants speak gibberish, they more often just admit to not knowing what was asked, when a human would understand readily. That's...
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Wal-Mart Brings You Fresher Groceries through Eden
In Wal-Mart's blog:Eden: The Tech That’s Bringing Fresher Groceries to You By Parvez Musani Vice President – Supply Chain Technology, WalmartWhat’s for dinner...
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Neural Nets Remembering
Well yes, all neural nets 'remember'. We examined that feature in their very early days. But they don't often remember in the way we would like memory to work...
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Future of AI Assistants
Useful perspective from a number of players.SXSW 2018: The Future of AI AssistantsAlexa, Google Home, Siri, and Cortana will learn to adjust to your changing life...
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Google Assistant on iPad
Interesting development. As tablets can be seen as more readily mobile devices that we carry along for convenience, why not integrate an assistant. And theIntroducing...
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Will AI Address Engineering Grand Challenges?
The statement of the challenges alone is interesting. Jeff Dean Thinks AI Can Solve Grand Challenges–Here’s HowAlex Woodie in DatanamiIn 2008, the National Academy...
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Wal-Mart Ups Robot Mileage
Technology Review writes that Robot mileage has been considerable for the Wal-Mart large scale robot test. Reported consumer interaction is interesting, similar...
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Build a Retail Chatbot
Brought to my attention ...Technical, for the development savvy. But perusing this could give you an idea of how to design and understand the possibilities. Then...
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Algorithm Reads Brain Reaction to Music
We experimented with fMRI to attempt to discern consumer reactions to product. So assume this is a measure of the reaction of people to different kinds of music...
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Alexa Stain Detective
Have been exploring alternative skills and their distribution by type on various voice driven assistants. Found the 'Tide Stain Detective', as an Alexa Skill...
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Leveraging AI for Max ROI
For AI job we did with signiicant cost and potential results, we generated an ROI estimate, and also a risk model. Makes sense if you want to continue funding....
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Amazon Shifts to Subscription for Prime Pantry
Seems more practically useful, to larger and more systematic users.Amazon shifts to a subscription model for Prime Pantryby Tom Ryan in Retailwire with further...
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Automata: States, Transitions and Context for Process
I have yet to see this directly useful, but it does teach the broad notion of automata, which is useful. Any time you are programming you are dealing with states...
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Walmart Smarter Shopping App
More on new Wal-Mart Shopping App. We looked at similar approaches which prioritized 'smart' lists and navigation ..... Tailored notification was also a means...
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Synthetic Biology
When we were more Pharma involved we took a look at what is called 'synthetic biology'. and connected to neural models that could predict human behavior. AsFrom...
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Drug Robot Finds Toothpaste Ingredient
First thought this was describing a 'robot' in a general sense, and the physical implementation was also required. But consider that the term robotic can be full...
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Walmart asks CPGs for higher priced products
No joke – Walmart asks CPGs for higher priced products by Matthew Stern in Retailwire with discussion. Walmart is known for its commitment to low prices, butLast...
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Blood Pressure Sensing from a Smart Phone
Was involved in defense department look at how to do inobtrusive, non mechanical blood pressure sensng. Was considered impossible at one time. The method described...
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AI Will Still Need Remote Human Help. Or Concierges?
Truly autonomous cars still some time away? Will they still need rooms full of operators somewhere to take over car operations remotely in some situations? That's...
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