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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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Airbnb vs Hotels
Saw an early analysis that showed this.The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for HotelsHotels enjoy their highest profits when rooms areChiara...
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Human Touch is Essential
Well thought out piece. Its not too much different than adding any kind of tech to work directly with people. Augment their work skills. Perhaps to the level...
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E Passports Don't Work
Remember about 10 years plus ago, being in a rush to get my passport updated before a major international business trip. A passport with an early version ofUS...
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No Conversations Yet
Good general piece. The assistants are remarkable, but still cannot handle a common conversation. What the future of this. Convenience of use is now there,...
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Revisiting Virtual Worlds
As I have chronicled here, we looked closely at the Virtual World Idea, with the support of some management. But it never stuck well enough, had too many problems...
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MIT's Veil for Private Browsing
New to me, investigated this idea for looking at 'automatic' background searches to support research topics. This was developed much later, after work with MIT...
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AI Failures in the Past Year
I don't call these AI failures, because almost by definition they are not 'intelligent'. But it does give some good examples about how things can fail, just as...
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Challenging Mechanical Turk
We did some dignificant work with Mechnical Turk, and looked for better ways, so this is particularly interesting. Worry, though, about the crypto currency ties...
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Hype Outrunning Reality
The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Why the Hype Has Outrun RealityRobots that serve dinner, self-driving cars and drone-taxis could be fun and hugely profitable...
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Ads on Voice Devices
Still looking at what it means to have effective ads on voice driven devices.What It Would Mean for Amazon to Bring Ads to AlexaIt's inevitable for the retailer...
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Computer Vision Assessing Cardiovascular Risk
From Google Research, an interesting application. With considerable detail about the experimental approach. Instructive. Note its about risk rather than diagnosis...
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More Cashierless Stores Planned: New Shopping Data?
Amazon showing some seriousness about the test, with more locations, some word was out there to the contrary. Now what kind of additional data will this provide...
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Competing with Amazon Go
Pointing to other efforts under way, such as Project Kepler. The tech is there, will it be effectively applied to customers that will use it?Will other Grocers...
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Computers Too Human
Saw some of this in our own chatbot testing. Also famously mentioned in studies of how people react to obviously non-human images in chat interactions, like...
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Noise Robust Classifiers
May also provide better ways to understand how classifiers can be tested in varying environments. Do not various contexts have likely kinds of adversarial noise...
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Google Assistant to go more Multilingual
Given Google's considerable expertise in the space this could lead to some remarkable capabilities, see suggestions below and at link. Here more about addingMultilingual...
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Microsoft Expands Bot Framework
Was impressed when I saw a demo of Azure being used to build simple chatbots. I thought then that it is about what services such systems could work with and their...
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Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
Below is from the talk mentioned above from our Linked Cognitive Systems Group. Join us in future talks, many will be mentioned here.Blockchain and ArtificialDr...
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Time Inconsistent Planning
Could such a method be used to plug into process models to include planning functions?Time-Inconsistent Planning: A Computational Problem in Behavioral Economics...
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