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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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Buy with a Smile
KFC Just Started Letting Customers Pay In a Way That Could Change EverythingWhat has happened to fast food lately? By Chris Matyszczyk in Inc. ....Never, though...
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Unifying Statsitics Computer Science and Applied Math
Makes sense to unify multiple methods, and though not mentioned here, include logical decision processes as well.Unifying Statistics, Computer Science, and Applied...
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Steering Wheel of the Future
Jaguar's steering wheel of the future revolves around AIIt also travels with you from car to car.Jon Fingas, @jonfingas In Engadget ... " ... The steering wheel...
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Sharp Appliances at IFA Berlin
Interesting new ideas from Sharp of Japan, but surprising nothing 'smart' being shown. Sony's Google Assistant Speaker was featured otherwise. Other than that...
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Bosch Develops Stain Scanner
We developed something called the 'Stain Detective', later called the 'Stain Brain', the intelligence there could be connected to something like Bosch's scanner...
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Coke Digital Vending, Now with AI
Long time follower here of the Coke Freestyle experience, saw prototypes of it with suggestions of how it could be adapted to supply chain and user experiences,...
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Drones Accurately Reading RFID Tag Positions
MIT figured out a better way for drones to use RFID technologyWith a clever hack by Dani Deahl @danideahl in TheVerge" .... MIT’s new solution, called Rfly,Rfly...
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Alexa, Be More Human
Excellent piece on the big challenge, an extension of the long known Eliza Effect. And its implications for computing use in new ways, today and tomorrow. AIn...
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Predicting Earthquakes with Machine Learning
Broad idea has been around for years. Are we getting closer? Gets heavily into accuracy and risk of different kinds of errors here. We worked with them onMachine...
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Machine Learning for Humans
Nice piece ...Machine Learning for Humans By Vishal Maini Writing about AI/ML, growing @YupTechnologies. Previously @Upstart, @Yale, @TrueVenturesTEC. Simple...
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Amazon Alexa Does Multiroom Music
Was recently rumored and Walter Riker just pointed out that if you went to the App and Smart Homes - >Groups you could set up a broadcast group of Echo devices...
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On Quantum Theory, Explained
A descriptive/historical view of Quantum theory. Not very technical, but you do have to care about the history of its exploration and explanation. Nicely done...
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Retailwire Survey on AI and the Supply Chain
Of interest, requires registration:Study Results:: A.I.’s advancing role in fueling the retail supply chainSee results of RetailWire’s study of nearly 200 retail...
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Sony's Smart Speaker Powered by Google Assistant
Another example of a smart speaker. Powered by Google Assistant, the same intelligence that is powering Google Home. An example of voice activated virtual assistance...
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An Introduction to Imitation Learning
Good piece on the topic. Starts with an overview based on games, then does get technical. Still basically shows that this is hard, except in narrow contexts....
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The Nature of Mixed Reality
Have noted Microsoft's use of the mixed reality term. To me its just confusing, and unless Microsoft completely takes over the market, seems a waste of time and...
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Task Journey Maps of the Smart Home
Robotic vacuum activity maps of the home. In Technology Review. Some fascinating views that tell you about smart home complexity, and even other applications...
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About Google Posts
Instructive piece, In Curatti: " ... Every now and then, something new sneaks into the marketing equation largely unnoticed. Did you know anything about Googleby...
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Walmart and Google Pushes an Online Boost
Thoughtful podcast, but I think the final para here misunderstands Wal-Mart's customers, they are more sophisticated and widespread than they think.Will Walmart...
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