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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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Gartner Ranks AI as top Tech to Watch
No surprise, Gartner ranks AI as the top technology to watch in coming years. Includes their time-hype graph of many other technologies. Via SiliconAngle. ...
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Machine Teaching
Out of Micrsosoft Research. O'Reilly Summarises.Machine Teaching: A New Paradigm for Building Machine Learning SystemsPatrice Y. Simard, Saleema Amershi, David...
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QR Codes in China
Have not been using or reading about the use of QR codes of late, interesting how they are being used in China. See also links to previous pieces on QR. Some...
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Assistants Using Wikipedia
A conversation at Wikipediocracy discusses how personal assistants like Alexa, Google Home and Siri use and attribute (or not) knowledge from the Wikipedia. ...
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Autonomous Video for the Home
IEEE Spectrum on 'friendly' home robotics. Still awaiting some more detailed looks at its in home use. Continue to cover this, but given the cost will likely...
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The Dataset that Transformed AI Research
As in the emergence of Big Data, it has been pointed out that the large amount of the right kind of data can make the difference. And it has, opening an entire...
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Google View of AI: Intelligence and Scale
Via O'Reilly: Jeff Dean is a Google senior fellow in the Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain project. Here is a video (and slides) of a talk he gave...
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Identifying Plant Species
Another example of using many images to train via AI. Also describes the data needs for such a process, done via Deep Learning neural methods.From the CACM: Digitizing...
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Infinite Pool Tables
We actually used this idea for solving cleaning coverage problems. A rare case where advanced topology math principles came into play in industry. This was the...
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NASA and Virtual and Augmented Realities
NASA has been known for experimenting in this space, I have played with a few of their published capabilities. Here is an overview of their future plans.NASA’S...
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Time Series Insights in Azure
Time Series Insights PREVIEWInstantly explore and analyze time-series data in IoT solutionsAzure Time Series Insights is a fully managed analytics, storage, and...
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Cortana Predicting Future Travel Plans
Been watching virtual assistants for some time. The key appears to be getting as many as possible out there, on many kinds of hardware, keep them cheap and...
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Video Detecting Infection Patterns
Looking for patterns in healthcare using video that lead to infection.Researchers use AI to monitor hospital staff hygieneThe technology could be used to reduce...
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Text Summarization
A good AI challenge that has useful applications.An Algorithm Summarizes Lengthy Text Surprisingly WellTraining software to accurately sum up information in documents...
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Exoskeleton Controlled by Voice
Adding the voice to being reactive to movements is an interesting approach, another case of multi channel interaction and control. This exoskeleton can be controlled...
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On a Bias about First Impressions
A first impression knowledge Bias?Why our brains lead us astray when we take things at face value Article by Diana Gitig A new book looks at how we overestimate...
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Addressing the Analogy Gap
Reminiscent of using humans as a peripheral, here determining high level relationships, then having the deep learning sort out the lower level patterns. Points...
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China and AI
In the NYT, word on China investments in AI: " ... China has laid out a development plan to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, with...
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IFTTT and Honeywell
Continue to be impressed about how companies are working with IFTTT data streams, most recently brought to my attention: Honeywell. Plus other methods using the...
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