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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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Commercial Supersonic Jet Engines
In The Bike Shop:" ... Going supersonicBrad Mottier, vice president and general manager of GE Aviation Business and General Aviation and Integrated Systems, kicked...
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Understanding Classification Performance
And as long as you are doing any kind of machine learning, here classification, you need to measure and understand its performance. Since I am doing that now,Jason...
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Random Forests Explained
A look at the method of Random Forests: Random Forests Explained Intuitively. Posted by Manish Kumar Barnwal. If not quite intuitive, relatively non-technical...
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Analytics and Workflow
Workflow, or sometimes called process .... whether B2B or B2C makes sense to understand it before looking for tools.Analytics and Workflow By Denis Pombriant"...
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Virtual Agents as Selvesware
Correspondent Michael Schrage on the nature of help by virtual agents. It used to be these took over a kind of 'executive assistant' role. Got to see these in...
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Linking Ads in Search to Offline Purchase
Quite a revolutionary thing happening this week, Google indicates that it can link an advertisement in their systems directly to off-line purchases. Enabled by...
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Closing the Loop
From the Edge Foundation. A Conversation with Chris Anderson. I have worked with process control systems that are closed loop, and designed to be ... We have...
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Tracking those Tracking You
Quite an interesting and detailed article. You wonder if the tracking efforts will change their systems to get around this. I recall reading about the numberHere...
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Teaching Robots Tasks
In Futurism: " ... artificial intelligence non-profit OpenAI just announced it has created an AI system that can learn to complete a task in reality after watching...
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Avoiding Left Turns
An example of a simple rule for a much more complex task. How many of these rules are there, and how many sub tasks exist? Teaching a Driverless Car to Turn Left...
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Safety via Understanding Patient Experience
Interesting example in the HBR. How can it be translated to other goals in other industries?How U.S. Health Care Got Safer by Focusing on the Patient Experience...
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Building Compassionate Conversational Systems
Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others, This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series, on Thursday, June 1, 2016 at 10:30 am ET USRama...
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Wal-Mart Patents Drone Delivery with Blockchains
Proposals for Drone delivery are not new. But Wal-Mart adds lock-box delivery and blockchains for tracking and identification. Showing their moves in combining...
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Google Going AI First
All the indications are there, the data, especially dynamic data, is broad and deep. What should business reactions be?Just Leaked: Google Preps to Invest Boldly...
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Apple's Neural Engine Plan
Bottom line, its all about the data. And its Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Facebook that have the data. Lots of data. And all of these companies are...
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Essential Home as an Ambient OS
I like the term Ambient Computing or Ambient OS. It listens, answers, performs, adapts. A virtual assistant too. A more private, more home oriented device?This...
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Pricing Models, Uber and Beyond
Some of our earliest analytics were to understand how products and services should be priced. Not to set prices, but to understand the overall pricing effect....
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Seeking Brainstorming Methods for Assembling Good Ideas
Been involved with classic brainstorming for innovation, and the 'voting with yellow-stickies, no criticism' brainstorm methods for an entire career. So always...
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Open Source Mycroft Assistant
Mentioned this assistant before. Now appears to be available. First open source example.An Open-Source (and Cute) Alternative to Amazon EchoMycroft’s voice-enabled...
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