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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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Sharing your Smartphone Location
When you should and shouldn't share your location via smartphone. Some best and worst Scenarios. But the experts now say it is impossible to not infer your physical...
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AI Video Recommendations
In the Verge: AI and Video recommendations: How YouTube started using Google Brain's AI to improve video recommendations in 2015, which now drive 70% of videos'...
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Culture for a Digital Age
From McKinsey. Good piece, though I think that there is value in diversity of culture as well, even outside these proclaimed boundaries.Culture for a digital age...
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More Social Robotics
Been intrigued by social robots, attempts at making interactive and friendly devices for the home and elsewhere. Is this problem solvable before we figure out...
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Alexa and Cortana Collaborate for the Enterprise
About the surprise collaboration announced today between Amazon and Microsoft, good thoughts about this. How much market is there for strong connections between...
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Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
I was late pointed to a a number of posts from the recent Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) of the CACM. Information retrieval is the most...
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Augmented Reality Challenge
A look at Hololens vs ARKitIs Augmented Reality going to be Microsoft’s next smartphone moment?HoloLens was inspirational, but it’s ARKit and ARCore that are going...
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Amazon Adding Multiroom Audio Control
Reported in Engadget. Another trick soon to be added to the Alexa set to position it against capabilities by Google Home and Sonos, and reportedly soon to be released...
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Tech Changing the Job of the CEO
Remarking on the quote below, we consulted directly with the C-Suite before execs had become used to using social communications, or even email with their employees...
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Robots and Eldercare
An area we looked at closely, in particular following what Japan was doing in this area. Robotics still do not cover this demand well enough. A look at the topic...
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Backdoors in Deep Learning Neural Nets
Even Artificial Neural Networks can have Exploitable Backdoors. In WiredEARLY IN AUGUST, NYU professor Siddharth Garg checked for traffic, and then put a yellow...
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Seeking Conversational AI
Quite an interesting post. Back to a favorite issue: what does dialog look like, both with current capabilities of 'intelligence', and proposed future approaches...
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Emerging Micro Moments
In Think with Google:Micro-Moments Are Multiplying—Are You Ready for the Future of Marketing? Sridhar Ramaswamy May 2017 Emerging Technology, Micro-MomentsMobile...
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Linkedin and Kafka
Been interested in how Linkdin could produce value for companies, this post is an interesting hint. And beyond this, how about integrating Linkedin People intoWP...
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Focusing Digital Investments
New research indicates where to focus digital investments so that they will reap rewards in online and face-to-face channels. In McKinsey Insights.
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Innovation Spaces by Google to Test Cars
I helped design and manage innovation spaces and their technology for years, so am always interested in how they can be best designed for purpose. And also how...
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Embedding AI into Tiny Devices
We should ask what AI means here. I am assuming training and applying machine learning architecture. Then the power of the systems involved may be key.Microsoft...
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Tailoring Voice Command Marketing
Somewhat general but useful thoughts, how should it be different, and I add: how should the architecture and capabilities of the delivering systems be changed...
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AI Seeking Sharks
Been working recently on detection type algorithms with video feeds. None are perfectly accurate, so always consider a risk analysis as well. Here the liability...
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