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Learning from Microsoft's Bots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning from Microsoft's Bots

Like I have mentioned many times, we built consumer facing bots that engaged and delivered expertise.   Saw Microsoft live demo the construction of an Azure based...

November-December Analytics Magazine
From The Eponymous Pickle

November-December Analytics Magazine

From the Informs Organization:Analytics Magazine: Sneak PreviewThe November/December issue of Analytics magazine takes a close look at a wide range of topics, including...

Reconfigurable Camera Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reconfigurable Camera Systems

Shree Nayar discusses "Cambits: A Reconfigurable Camera System" (cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/11/222170), a Contributed Article in the November 2017 CACM. .... Cambit...

More on Wal-Marts Bossa Nova Bots among the Shelves
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Wal-Marts Bossa Nova Bots among the Shelves

One of my favorite topics.  How will robots be effectively used in real life environments, contexts?  Note 3D imaging.   And how do you get a count of what is behind...

Private, Portable Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Private, Portable Deep Learning

More mobile deep machine learning:New Technology Makes Artificial Intelligence More Private and Portable University of Waterloo News  by Matthew GrantResearchers...

Google Aims to put AI Anywhere
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Aims to put AI Anywhere

Note this says machine learning, not AI.  Which is appropriate.  ML is an important part of AI, but it is not all of it.   From Google:  Announcing TensorFlow Lite...

Mariott Guestroom Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mariott Guestroom Lab

We were involved as a corporate customer of hotel space.  And saw many future hotel scenarios to attract the business traveler.  Here is Mariott's take,  collaborating...

Risk Detection is Important
From The Eponymous Pickle

Risk Detection is Important

Not often covered well enough, worth thinking about.  Detecting the Risk, working with business partners to understand its implications, is important.  In my observation...

Machines Writing Music
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machines Writing Music

Delivering a level of creativity is always of interest.From Mozard to Botzard: when machines write our musicParis (AFP) - Machines are already taking our jobs,Swiss...

Cognitive Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive Manufacturing

ReviewingView from the MarketplaceIBM Watson Video Series - Cognitive ManufacturingBy using data and predictive analytics, it’s possible to improve the manufacturing...

Virtual Beauty in Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Beauty in Augmented Reality

We spend some time looking at Virtual Beauty applications.  Was never successful in our day.   What can make it work here?   Is this an example of AR success? MAC...

Fashion AI by Alibaba
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fashion AI by Alibaba

Examined the use of this kind of in store technology to engage. Personalization and privacy were key aspects.   But we also discovered that the environment of such...

Smart Pills Approved
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Pills Approved

An old idea we talked in the innovation centers:Smart Pills Are Headed to American PatientsThe FDA has approved America’s first digital pill. The tablets, called...

Google Home Adds Intercom
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Home Adds Intercom

Been using a similar function in Amazon Alexa for some time, its a popular function in the Smart Home.   Especially if you have a larger space.  Only makes sense...

Lows and Macy's Wnt to Help with the Smart Home
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lows and Macy's Wnt to Help with the Smart Home

More retailers join into the outfitting of the smart home.Lowe’s and Macy’s join rivals chasing smart home opportunityby Tom Ryan   and Expert Comments in Retalwire...

Media Companies vs Amazon
From The Eponymous Pickle

Media Companies vs Amazon

More detailed thoughts at the link:Should media companies fear Amazon?  by Ted Chamberlin in GartnerIn weighing both sides, I see Amazon as being a clear and present...

Limits of Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Limits of Machine Learning

Good piece.  In particular was struck by the term 'brittleness', which we encountered many times in out exploration of enterprise AI.   A solution could be useful...

Multiple Speaker Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Multiple Speaker Recognition

Assistants can now recognize individual voice patterns.  Have trained my own that way, usually by repeating phrases.   And that categorization is important to understand...

Retailwire on AI's Role in Customer Engagement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retailwire on AI's Role in Customer Engagement

From Retailwire:Why artificial intelligence is becoming instrumental for unifying in-store and online experiencesAfter decades of intense development, AI is coming...

Supply Chain Digest Numbers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Chain Digest Numbers

Supply Chain Digest publishes sort term news items, based on statistics.  here is an example.  More at the link, but still thin on actual details.   Worth following...
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