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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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Pew Research: Automation in Everyday Life
An extensive report based on surveys. Pointer is to an overview, and then links further to a full PDF report I am reading. Addressing fear about the future ofPew...
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Robots Train Ants to be Helpers
A novel application linking robots and insects. Not really Biomimicy, but a sort of Biosynthesis. Not sure how practical this is for a real application, but impressed...
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Testing Voice Shopping at Walmart
This started a week ago. I will be testing this in the coming weeks. Will typical retail store searching and shopping work this way for the Wal-Mart shopper?Walmart...
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Outlined New Capabilities for Google Home
Perhaps mundane, but since I have a multiple assistant smart home and office, I like that fact that it will include multiple voices. So you can readily know who...
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The Amazon Playbook
Good overview, in general this has been my external view as well.The Amazon Playbook for Speed and Agility Jeff Toister In CustomerThinkIt’s no secret AmazonWhat...
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Blockchain and Insurance Industry
Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent10 Voices - HarvardBusiness.org by Dante Disparte While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with...
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Brain Built from Atomic Switches
A Brain Built From Atomic Switches Can LearnQuanta MagazineBy Andreas von BubnoffA tiny self-organized mesh full of artificial synapses recalls its experiencesResearchers...
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Microsoft Virtual Customer Service Agents
New means of virtual support by Microsoft. Notably connected to their LinkededIn and their Knowledge Graph. This could be a key means to useful enterprise AI....
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Revinventing the Design of Rx Labels
While we were in the RX business this is an area we tinkered with, like the re-design approach.CVS Taps A Design Legend To Reinvent The Prescription Label. Next...
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Deep Learning Trends
Four deep learning trends from ACL 2017 by Abigail SeePart One: Linguistic Structure and Word EmbeddingsIntroduction“NLP is booming”, declared Joakim Nivre atBeneath...
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KPI in User Experience
Always good to think about useful measures.What is the most important KPI in User Experience?by Magnus Revang in The Gartner BlogI have many conversations about...
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DNA Barcoding of Trees
In our early work managing forest assets in Alberta, for pulp in use in consumer products, we actively looked at ways of measuring tree growth and asset management...
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Internet of Things, People and Systems
Brought to my attention:Smart Cities: The Internet of Things, People and Systems 1st ed. 2017 Editionby Schahram Dustdar (Author), Stefan Nastić (Author), Ognjen...
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Mattel Cancels Aristotle, an Assistant for Children
It should be noted that Amazon nor Alexa was not involved in this.In FastCodesign: " ... Less than a year after the toymaker Mattel launched a AI-powered baby monitor...
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Sins of AI Prediction
Nicely thought out, with great cartoon images. Its right about distraction. There is lots of advancement here, but expecting the wrong things can confuse direction...
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Google Announces More than Gadgets
TheVerge looks at all devices announced by Google this week, with lots of pictures. Call them gadgets, but I think there was lots of interesting content there...
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Google Clips Gathering, Analyzing Images
Saw Clips introduced this week. An interesting application of an always on, AI driven camera. With shades of Life-Logging, but with better ways to make sense...
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Modeling Economy with Technology
We spent some time working with W Brian Arthur's thoughts about modeling economies and their outcomes at the Santa Fe Institute. Good to take another look.Where...
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Translation in Your Ear
Saw this demonstrated yesterday. Very impressive. Still not completely automatic, transparent, though that may not be far away. For the omni traveler certainly...
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