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Alexa and Cortana not in Partnership yet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa and Cortana not in Partnership yet

Noted this with interest last year.  I did test it later last year and got a recognition of Alexa from within Cortana,  but nothing more.  It would be interesting...

Amazon Discussing Alexa Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Discussing Alexa Advertising

Started to examine this basic idea a year ago, but Amazon was not allowing advertising embedded in skill or other interactions based on data.   Google built such...

Thinking Forward about Enterprise Collaboration
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking Forward about Enterprise Collaboration

Have followed the question of efficieint collaboration, and finding the resources to collaborate for some time.  We even discussed it with Bill Gates during the...

Kroger Self Check
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Self Check

Perhaps one of the many pick-up blue order assembly carts, now often clogging the aisles can ring up your order?Kroger is the next grocery chain hoping to cut checkout...

Google Express Shops Free at Costco
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Express Shops Free at Costco

Interesting play that gives a quasi connection to a membership.Google Express lets you shop at Costco without a membership   in FastcompanyGood news for wannabe...

Voice Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voice Assistants

Voice, cognitive and increasing value driving this.Almost Half of America Uses Digital Voice Assistants NowIn the land of new media, audio might not be king yet...

Humans and Machines Are Better When They Team Up
From The Eponymous Pickle

Humans and Machines Are Better When They Team Up

I think we need to consider job displacement and augmentation, they will occur, just like they have always been doing.  More Evidence that Humans and Machines Are...

Primer on Generative Adversarial Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Primer on Generative Adversarial Networks

GAN's (Generative Adversarial Networks)  always impressed me as some of the most innovative ways to use neural networks and deep learning.   GAN's were unknownA...

Dolphins Speak
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dolphins Speak

Efforts like this could tell us if there are other ways to efficiently store knowledge and process.Scientists use artificial intelligence to eavesdrop on dolphins...

Top Consumer Goods Companies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Top Consumer Goods Companies

Top 100 Consumer Goods Companies 2017By CGT Staff - 12/27/2017How tough is the consumer goods market these days? Almost one-third of the world’s largest publicThat...

AI Report card from the Verge
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Report card from the Verge

Nicely done, non-technical view of the condition of AI circa 2017.   Covering many points I would also make.  AI is not only about machine learning,  a solution...

Free Data Science eBooks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free Data Science eBooks

Spring. Rejuvenation. Rebirth. Everything’s blooming. And, of course, people want free ebooks. With that in mind, here's a list of 10 free machine learning and ...

Keeping Your Face off the Internet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Keeping Your Face off the Internet

How can you keep your face off the net, if you are are already actively online?  This souds like a challenge.   Intriguing question.The man who can't face the internet...

Applying AI to Mobile Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Applying AI to Mobile Apps

How to find the best ways of Applying Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Applications    By Ritesh Mehta in CustomerThinkWhile mobile applications continue to be...

Digital Effect
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Effect

Interesting results from an executive survey regarding the value of digital.  I would assume this is quite obvious for readers here, but good relative statistics...

A Look at VR in 2017
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at VR in 2017

The Verge does a good job at reviewing VR in the past year.  I have covered this for decades for real applications.    Still examining many possibilities.  Good...

Harnessing Micro Moments for Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Harnessing Micro Moments for Learning

Always thought there was value to using all that wasted time.  But how to do it well?  A sort of crowd sourcing of our leftover time for value.  Can we assemble...

Recalculating Patterns in Real Time
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recalculating Patterns in Real Time

Intriguing approach for constantly changing time series data.Novel Algorithm Enables Statistical Analysis of Time Series Data MIT News  By Sara CodyResearchers...

Google Creates Human Voices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Creates Human Voices

Have been hearing computer voices regularly for several years now with assistants, and note their ability to evoke a personality.   Previous to that had seen the...

Targeting Marketing at Overstock
From The Eponymous Pickle

Targeting Marketing at Overstock

Admit have not looked at or used Overstock for some time.  Nice example of business model with analytics in Datanami:Inside Overstock’s One-to-One Marketing Machine...
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