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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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The Odds of Strategy
Have not read this book, but the premise is interesting. But is strategy in context usually too broad to pin good odds on?Strategy to beat the odds By Chris Bradley...
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Anxiety about AI Agency
How do we start dealing with faster technological changes that will put people out of work. Will it augment enough people to create 'AI workers' to do things better...
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Robots Cooperate to open a Door
Video released today. Two Boston Dynamics SpotMini robots cooperate to open a fairly standard door:An impressive and somewhat creepy demonstration of the advance...
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Store Assistant: Wal-Mart Makes Its App Smarter
Much more detail at the link. Note the renaming of this as an assistant. Good, but the system also has to be transparent, very easy to use, bump-free financials...
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Towards Crowd Sourcing Conversational Agents
Intriguing thought, not sure it actually is the same as what we did and called a 'Concierge' model, linking appropriately to other smart agents or people. More...
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Amazon Designing Alexa Chips
Amazon designs deeper. Which ultimately will be the way you get better intelligence, conversation and engagement. Faster and more on-point.Amazon is reportedly...
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Add Human Touch to Big Data
Short but thoughtful piece from SAS. But do remember that humans are also good at adding bias.Why is it important to add a human touch to big data? By Jay Paulson...
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Google Shopping Looking like Amazon
Continued competition in the online retail world.Google Shopping is becoming a lot like browsing on AmazonSearch results with related items are just the start.By...
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Center for Machine Intelligence
New efforts to address machine intelligence and Society.Center for Machine Intelligence Launched to Help Build a Smarter and Safer Society University of Southampton...
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What is AI?
Another look at the elusive definition. I am still of the opinion it is what it can do for us. Augment and improve our decisions. So yes then, just about...
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Trading with Reinforcement Leaning
Nice example of reinforcement learning. Not really prediction of the kind might want, below just the introduction that sets the stage, click through to more detail...
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GIS and Big Data
We were early users of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) when we helped manage Alberta Pine forests. True it predated 'Big Data', but emerged at about the...
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Using Analytics to Improve Customer Engagement
Always thought this was obvious, and it did not have to be artificial anything, just had to promote understanding and efficiently leveraging shared data. Survey...
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VR at the Olympics
While listening to the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics. I noted the statement that some of the things being seen on my 2 dimensional screen hadHere...
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Google AutoML Learns
Its long been suggested that the best AI is one that is the best learner. Then it can learn from other humans, other AIs and the masses of data we are gathering...
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Consciousness as Instinct
As a long ago reader of William James, always amazed at how modern it seemed. Now what does this mean, ultimately, for the goals of AI? Is Conscious alive?What...
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Tracking Human Movements
Scientists Develop Method to Track Human Movements More Accurately in EurekAlertResearchers at the North China Institute of Aerospace Engineering, Hefei University...
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Molecular Swarms
Letting Molecular Robots Swarm Like Birds Hokkaido University By Naoki NambaResearchers at Hokkaido University and Kansai University in Japan have created DNA...
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Massive Drone Swarms for Entertainment
The massive use of drones at the Superbowl and Korean Opening of the Winter Olympics show the impressive use of multiple drone swarms for art and imply their future...
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