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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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Gamifying the E-Commerce Experience
Something we explored, with only a bit of success. Not specifically endorsing this vendor, Iterable, but the report is interesting. Requires sign-in.Game On...
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HoloLens 2 Adding AI Processor
Augmented realities will need better edge intelligence to provide value. By John Brandon, Computerworld. Some interesting applications are described.Why Microsoft...
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Voicelabs Ads
Advertising and Alexa Skills. Amazon's new policy kills ad network that monetizes Echo Skills Amazon says it updated its policy to make sure users have the best...
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Retail Analytics and Store Viz
We also worked on this kind of analytics. ... Good points made, its all about context.Retail Analytics and Store Visualization by Gary Angel In CustomerThink...
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Introduction to Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Shades of expert systems, but with the ability to learn. The integration of rule-based application of logic and analytic and deep learning methodologies. Explicit...
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Roomba Maps for Smart Homes
This reminds me of work we did with test Roombas. We were interested in how they compared with human cleaning process and also usage of possible cleansing liquids...
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Swarms in Control
A favorite topic. All systems are controlled by multiple entities. Call that a swarm. Stanford and their Platfom Lab developing infrastructure for such systems...
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Ignoring the Robots
Fascinating piece on the history of 'robots'. Back to the 15th century. Meant to do real jobs or just impress? Far too expensive to just impress, but I will...
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Christopher Ahlberg Talks AI
Christopher Ahlberg, CEO at Recorded Future, and Staffan Truvé, Recorded Future’s chief technology officer, talks about AI in a Recorded Future podcast.
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Acquiring Digital Companies
Via Bain:3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company by Arnaud LeroiEven for experienced deal makers, a first digital acquisition is boundFew...
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Autonomous Cargo Ships Coming
Electrically Powered. But how they will address dangers like still common piracy is unclear.The world’s first autonomous cargo ship will launch next year By Duncan...
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Machine Learning and Big Data
I was recently asked, whats the difference? .... Just Architecture vs Math?Machine learning with Big Data is, in many ways, different than "regular" machine learning...
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The Game of Checkers
Back on our early AI days, we looked closely at problem solving for games. Notably the work of Arthur Samuel in machine learning. This piece below on the seemingly...
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Amazon Chats
Anytime by AmazonWill customers use an Amazon app to chat? by Matthew Stern in Retailwire. With discussion.Smartphone messaging is perhaps one of the only areas...
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Machine Learning and Hidden Decision Trees
Had posted about this once before. We used decision trees effectively in the enterprise, and they can be useful due to their transparency. In particular because...
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Design for the Users, not a Mythical Generation
The other day the question came up about how we should carefully design our user interface to match the generation of the current predicted user base. Were they...
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Using Social Media to Find Top Customers
In Knowedge@Wharton. Influencing the Influencers: Using Social Media to Find Top CustomersWharton's Gad Allon discusses his research on using social media data...
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Disney Tests Facial Expression Analysis for Movies
Back to using facial expression detection and coding. Not new, Something we also experimented with, in lab settings, but here with new data science doing the analysis...
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Origami Robots Moving Without Battery Power
Following uses of origami folding methods for simplifying robotics. See much written before on this space regarding practical Origami, at the tag below.Harvard's...
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