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Chatbots as Customer Service Reps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chatbots as Customer Service Reps

Overview on the concept of retail chatbots.   This time of year you have probably encountered a few.  Key is doing it right. It is not easy to do them well. Participating...

More Bayesian Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Bayesian Networks

Video, another example of using Bayesian networks.Dr. Alta de Waal's presentation at the 5th Annual BayesiaLab Conference in Paris.Spatially Discrete Probability...

Cortana and Alexa as Collaborating Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cortana and Alexa as Collaborating Assistants

This was announced back in late August, and have heard little since.   Reviewed some of the details here of interest.   What can this look like?     Do recent indications...

Crowdsourcing Voice Recognitiion
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowdsourcing Voice Recognitiion

Like the idea of sharing this kind of fundamental data.    Good idea to think about what the structure of such data should look like and be most useful.Mozilla ...

Deloitte Cognitive Tech Survey
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deloitte Cognitive Tech Survey

Deloitte provides some interesting data on Cognitive via survey2017 cognitive technologies surveyEarly adopters speak out on cognitive and AI​What do the most aggressive...

Grocery Startup Uses AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Grocery Startup Uses AI

Artificial Intelligence is drawing attention for its potential and its pitfalls. Tesla founder Elon Musk recently called for greater regulation of AI robotics due...

Kroger Does Mobile Payments
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Does Mobile Payments

Surprised this has taken this long, getting to be an expectation in retail:JPMorgan Strikes Deal With Kroger for Mobile PaymentsBy Jennifer Surane  and Craig Giammona...

Summary of Conference on Robot Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Summary of Conference on Robot Learning

In the Google Research Blog.  Broadly about learning in changing contexts and environments.  Links to papers presented.A Summary of the First Conference on Robot...

Electric Eels and Implantable Power
From The Eponymous Pickle

Electric Eels and Implantable Power

Pacemakers and VR contact lenses are suggested.Electric eels might be the key to powering implantable devicesThis could lead to a pacemaker that never runs out....

Ben Evans On the Amazon Machine
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ben Evans On the Amazon Machine

Thoughtful piece  ... Now I want Amazon to better give us the power to make our own machines.  Voice Assistants, databases and skills are not enough.  Give me a...

Buying Through Your Car Dashboard
From The Eponymous Pickle

Buying Through Your Car Dashboard

Automobile as a channel.GM thinks you'll buy stuff through your car's dashboardIts on-board marketplace lets you purchase items you'll still have to wait in line...

New and Dynamic Category Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

New and Dynamic Category Management

Spent a big part of a whole career in the analytics of this space.     How new and dynamic are the changes?    Considerable.    Excellent in further discussionThe...

Exoskeleton Being Tested by Ford
From The Eponymous Pickle

Exoskeleton Being Tested by Ford

The ultimate integration of people and robotics.Ford Pilots New Exoskeleton Technology to Help Lessen Chance of FatiqueFord Pilots New Exoskeleton Technology to...

Google Experiments with Photography
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Experiments with Photography

This effort was new to me.  Some of the Apps are available on just on Android, and some on IOS.  Particularly interested in new kinds of mobile based object recognition...

IOT Value vs Trust Survey
From The Eponymous Pickle

IOT Value vs Trust Survey

In the Cisco blog, results from a survey  of interest, with details.Cisco survey finds consumers like IoT devices but don’t trust their security  by Duncan Riley...

Coexisting with Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coexisting with Robots

We are starting to see the earliest issues about how we will work with robots.   And the first step will be how can even coexist with them in our streets and walkways...

Watson IoT Platform
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson IoT Platform

Starting to work on a project that utilizes IOT applications.   Here is an excerpt of Watson IoT's latest overview that we will be working with.   Includes Videos...

Computers, Cognition and Perspective
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computers, Cognition and Perspective

Intriguing thoughts.   Why do we always use human descriptive terms to tag computer 'Apps',  skills, and what are the implications?  Pretty obviously we start with...

Byte Sized Deep Learning Tutorials
From The Eponymous Pickle

Byte Sized Deep Learning Tutorials

There seems to be quite a bit to learn in The AI Workbox.  We often learn best by example rather than rules.Bite-size video tutorials for Deep Learning Developers...

AI is Still not Broadly Impressive
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI is Still not Broadly Impressive

Or is that we are not as intelligent as we thought?  Are we fooled by the very implications in the term:  AI.  Seems this happened once before.   Hype and Bubble...
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