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Operationalizing Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Operationalizing Analytics

Good points, barriers yes, but not as difficult as it is stated.  We did it years ago.  Depends too upon what you mean by 'analytics', I define it broadly as using...

Prediction by the Numbers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Prediction by the Numbers

The current PBS NOVA : Prediction by the Numbers, does a quick and well done hour long view of statistics from Pascal to deep learning AI. I could see a Jr High...

IARPA Wants better Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

IARPA Wants better Machine Learning

Machine Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the UglyGovernment Computer News,  Matt LeonardAlthough machine-learning technology is still in its early stages, the U...

Empathy Sparks Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Empathy Sparks Innovation

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: How Empathy Sparks Innovation" .... Nadella also referenced Microsoft’s work with AI, holograms, and virtual reality for various professional...

Shopping Curation by Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopping Curation by Assistant

So what is shopping curation?    It gives the choice of product or brands or services in the hands of a smart device.   For first purchase or replenishment.   By...

Watson Discovery Demo
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Discovery Demo

At today's talk by Niall Cargill of IBM on Artificial Intelligence - How Developers Benefit Today. ... Recording and slides of talk here:  http://cognitive-science...

Analytics Translators Needed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics Translators Needed

I want to say that anybody that does analytics work should be able to translate the results and methods used to a business leader.  The best translator is someone...

Reasoning with Common Sense
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reasoning with Common Sense

Can we teach machines common sense?  Which points back to our own look at the work Doug Lenat was doing with the Cyc Project. We wanted to create a means by which...

Amazon Invades Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Invades Advertising

Podcast and text.  How will this change their assistants?  Amazon Has Officially Invaded The Advertising IndustryBy Collin Colburn, Analyst,   ForresterRetailers...

Google Does a Slack Alternative
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Does a Slack Alternative

Been using Slack for some time on a project by project basis.  Does I think promote focus.   Email can be very fragmented among the noise.  Are the new Hangouts...

Product Management Competencies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Product Management Competencies

Nicely done.   Take it beyond to process management understanding and competencies. And their interaction with Products.Product Management Is Key to Digital Business...

IBM Watson Does Assistance
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Watson Does Assistance

Akin to smart home assistants now all around us?IBM Watson is heading to space in an 11-pound smiling orb called CIMON  by Duncan Riley in SiliconAngle. IBM Corp...

Talk: Artificial Intelligence - How Developers Benefit Today
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Talk: Artificial Intelligence - How Developers Benefit Today

Our latest talk from Cognitive Science Institute, join us!Thursday Mar 1, 2018 10:30am – 11:30am (EST) via Larry Clevenger IBMZoom meeting Link: https://zoom.us...

Amazon to Acquire Ring Doorbell
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon to Acquire Ring Doorbell

Somewhat unusual, Amazon acquiring a third party smart home capability.  Link to in-home delivery approaches?   Could lead to better compatibility between systems...

HAMR Microbots
From The Eponymous Pickle

HAMR Microbots

Took early looks at very small and collaborative robotics.     And don't forget the very small is likely also disposable.   And is a sensor whose goals can be multi...

Should Bots Lie?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Should Bots Lie?

What does it mean when any kind of agent in a collaboration lies?   Room for risk analyses here.Should AI bots lie? Hard truths about artificial intelligence in...

Inverse Reinforcement Learning
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Inverse Reinforcement Learning

This was generally new to me.  But seems like it could be very useful, in understanding the behavioral reaction of consumers to advertising or marketing.   Note...

Having Meaningful Conversations
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Having Meaningful Conversations

I recently tried the Alexa Chatbot 'winner', and was not impressed overall.  The piece below addresses this.   Real, meaningful (not just tricking someone intoAmazon...

Smelling Moth Brains are Smarter
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Smelling Moth Brains are Smarter

It's not news that biological neural networks are very different from those used in artificial neural  networks (ANN)  we still don't know how the former work. ...

Recreating Seen Images
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Recreating Seen Images

A long term goal, and have seen many such claims as to the precision to which this might be possible. Looked at it for product recognition at one time, but wasThis...
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