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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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Apples Talking in the IOT
Uday Prabhu, General Manager, Internet of ThingsRobert Bosch Engineering & Business Solutions Pvt Ltd writes: Talking Apples! The Conversation with Things in Linkedin...
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Intelligent Video Analytics
Recently asked to look at this… for applications beyond security:What it can do for your businessIBM Intelligent Video Analytics helps security and public safety...
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Intel Chief Talks Augmented vs Artificial
Always interesting to hear opinions on rapidly emerging technologies from the big players. Ultimately they must make the investments that need to be made.Artificial...
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Chasing Focus
Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus By Srini PillayThe ability to focus is an important driver of excellence. Focused techniques such as to-do lists, timetables...
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Disney and Kid-Robot Interactions
Interesting thought. Applications to robot-people interactions? Storytelling mentioned. Robots as androids, or more generally as devices? Do COPPA, andDisney...
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How we Draw
Fascinating piece on how different cultures draw, using the circle as an example. A piece of metadata to understand and classify people and cultures? Note Google's...
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Effectiveness of Retail Loyalty Programs
Good piece, and especially discussion on use and effectiveness of retail loyalty programs.How can retailers make loyalty programs more effective? by Tom Ryan...
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Consumer Brands and Blockchain
IBM piece. Refers to some work done by Wal-Mart using Blockchain. But then takes it further.By Laurence Haziot, IBM Global Managing Director and General Manager...
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Evolution of Amazon Recommender Systems
Building a store for each consumer. And how those consumers evolve over time? Instructive piece. What is the driving force for change? In IEEE Computer Society...
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Filling in Missing Data in Brain Scans
Intriguing work that looks specifically at data from after-stroke brain scans. And an example of how this method can be used more broadly. Having AI based methods...
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Virtual Assistant Statistics
From Bloomberg, first specific stats I have seen:" ... Shipments of intelligent home speakers surged nearly 600 percent to 4.2 million units in the fourth quarter...
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Alibaba Builds Echo for China
Apparently only in Mandarin for now. Continued competition in this space.Alibaba Challenges Google, Amazon With New Echo-Like DeviceBy Lulu Yilun Chen in Bloomberg...
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Amazon Echo as Intercom
Has now rolled out, have used it daily for a week, obvious useful add for the smart home.Alexa gets room-to-room intercom support between Echo devicesby Chaim Gartenberg...
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Overview of Recurrent Neural Networks
An overview of recurrent neural networks, and a tour of different types used for deep learning applications. Note in particular, such problems that require sequencing...
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AI for Manufacturing Process Control
Interesting process manufacturing example. Weight control is a very often used, and a simple control process. Interesting to see how this differs.Hershey adopts...
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API Economy
Expanding business models2017 Is Quickly Becoming The Year Of The API EconomyThis year more CIOs will have their bonuses tied to how many new business models they...
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Amazon Acquires Souq
In Chain Store Age. Full article requires registration.Amazon gains huge foothold in Middle EastAmazon has completed its acquisition of e-commerce company souq...
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Smelling with VR for Immersion
The CPG company I worked with for years used to have a big foods component and smell and aroma were major sensory components of products and product development...
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Yes to Operational Intelligence
Never called it that, but it was what we did when we sought to do analytics (Statistical, Neural networks, Bayesian, graphical, AI, modeling...) and apply thatOperations...
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