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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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Report from the Smart Kitchen Summit
Used to attend these kinds of meetings, to feed our own innovation center experiments, always had to separate the reasonable from the outlandish. In say a decade...
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Put Humans at the Center of AI
Worked with the Stanford AI lab, and a number of the startups and students that came out of it.Put Humans at the Center of AI in Technology ReviewAt Stanford and...
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Google Improves, Automates Pet Tagging
We were involved in work that sought to autotag pictures of people and pets in still images and video. So this is quite a step forward. Not too long ago thisMeow...
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Facebook Releases Video Neural Training Data
More generally available training data for Deep Learning systems.Facebook debuts new video datasets for training neural networks by Maria Deutscher Facebook Inc...
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Seeking Voice Assistants in the Workplace
Now been involved in a number of brainstorm meetings addressing now virtual assistants can be used in the workplace. Especially how voice can be used without disrupting...
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Next Gen Personalization
Good piece shows the breadth of tech being used to personalize.Shop.org Takeaway: Three steps to next-gen personalization By Deena M.Amato-McCoy in ChainStorage...
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Brain Machine Interface
The idea has been around for years, now approaching reality. In Wired: " .... 2017 has been a coming-out year for the Brain-Machine Interface (BMI), a technology...
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Blockchain and the Energy Grid
How Blockchain Could Give Us a Smarter Energy GridEnergy experts believe that blockchain technology can solve a maze of red tape and data management problems. ....
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Time Measurement Productivity Tools
Had not heard of many of these tools. Rarely is time measured this carefully.8 Productivity Tools Illustrate You Have Way More Time Than You ThinkThe scarcity...
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Ad Tech Emerging for Tactical Decisions
When I first joined the enterprise we constructed some near autonomous systems to analyze, select and insert ads optimally. If anything today, we have much better...
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Russian Voice Assistant
Russian Voice Assistant Alice Sounds as Natural as Developer Yandex Claims By Brenda Stolyar in Digital TrendIt’s sometimes tough to remember the days when we...
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A Creative Promotion Machine
Just now examining the creative personalization angle addressed here. A mix of personalization and creativity. But how much?AI-Based Promotions – Welcome to the...
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Listening to Your Patients
Could virtual assistants act as a means to start efficient dialog with patients? Consider the patient interaction to be three-way. An assistant starts the interaction...
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Cautions About Using this Blog
Because of the nature of a blog, and the way it presents information serially, please be careful to read the publication date of information. It may render information...
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Infrastructure Automation
Basic Infrastructure Automation is a No-Brainer – Why Aren’t You Doing It? Chris Gardner, Senior Analyst ForresterEveryone knows they need to automate. That...
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Fake Data
My colleague Kaiser Fung talks fake data. Good thoughts and pointers to examples and resources. Read his whole article at the link.Here is a problem staring many...
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Ahold Digital Strategy
Considerable detail in this Progressive Grocer piece.Ahold's digital strategy pays offAhold USA has seen success with a new digital strategy that has brought on...
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Capturing the Value of APIs
Good general discussion of the architecture. Good choices can make API possible and an asset. In McKinsey.What it really takes to capture the value of APIsBy...
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Shopping Free with the Google Assistant
Starting an examination of the user experience of hands free voice shopping at well known retailers. The Google Home assistant has this capability using whatHere...
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