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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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Connecting to Customers with Voicebots
A excerpt from Venturebeat, not from a while ago, about connecting to customers via voicebots. Good piece. But as of this time the Google Home calling functionality...
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Alexa Disruptive to CPG Retail Brands?
Does this take us back to the old-time, self service store? True we can ask for a particular brands, influenced by advertising, but the quick way is to justHow...
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Sansar is a Virtual World using VR
We explored SL, built locations, thought of advertising there, swam through our data, had group meetings. Click the tags below for more on all that.The VR successor...
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Information, Decision Making, Asset value
The Question Every Executive Should AskMagazine: Summer 2017 Bernard J. Tyson, interviewed by Paul Michelman Gone are the days of centralized control of information...
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Amazon Echo and SAP HANA
A rare business oriented use of otherwise consumer oriented virtual assistants. Examining.Amazon Echo and the SAP HANA Cloud Platform by Craig Cmehil" ...For...
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Neuroscience Inspired AI
Quite a good and detailed look at the past and potential future of this inspiration. But it remains just inspiration, and is not a detailed road map. EvenNeuroscience...
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Neural Compute Stick
Would like to understand what 'plug and play' means here. Acceleration likely. Intriguing thing at this level. wrote about Movidius previously. They were acquired...
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Amazon Tries Mobile Flash Sales
Amazon has no intention of trying innovative sales ideas. I am imagining the Echos, soon to be announcing sales on your very street. Will this further link Amazon...
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Learning by Thinking
Can we make machines work this way? In a sense we do. we train and re-train. And test against reality. But is the semantic language or architecture correctIn...
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Is Web Scraping Illegal?
A common practice under fire again. If something is clearly publicly delivered, is it open to turn into another form called data? A challenge to data democratization...
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Conversational Commerce
Another look at conversational commerce. Though beyond what we think of as messaging. Including memory of previous interactions and leveraging what is known...
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P&G Cuts $100 Million in Digital Ads
P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital AdsConsumer product giant steers clear of ‘bot’ traffic and objectionable content ...Almost all...
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Alexa Needs to be Much Smarter
Have now been testing the Google Home, Amazon Echo, Cortana and Siri since their inception. All of these devices and services do some clever things, but none are...
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Fewer Assistants in China
Attended a meeting this week at Columbia featuring proposed uses of virtual assistants, excellent ideas, many by Chinese students. Impressive. So I see some...
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Knowing the Data
I like the idea of 'thinking with data', not just solving a particular problem but knowing important process data and manipulating it for ongoing value. Knowing...
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Mobile Neural Networks
This kind of work is going on elsewhere, like at Google, to try to put the intelligence and learning on the 'edge' of a network.MIT Research Could Make Neural Networks...
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AI is not Smart Enough Yet
Gets back to the definition of AI. Sets of algorithms, machine learning, rules are still not AI (Artificial Intelligence) , they are new kinds of data processing...
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Towards an Intelligent Automation Continuum
I like the broad idea. We seem to be doing very well these days in picking off specific narrow problem domains, but less so in constructing general solutions to...
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New in Analytics, AI and Automation
Via McKinsey: What’s new and next in analytics, AI, and automationInnovations in digitization, analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation are creating performance...
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