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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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Assistants Understanding Accents
Quite a long article with many links in Language Log, on research that has been done on understanding accents. And how this may influence our work with assistants...
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Jobs and Technologies
Seems an odd premise, is it the underlying responsibility of companies to create jobs? Or allow the market to do that? Starting in the 60s, many jobs have been...
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Wal-Mart E-Commerce Surge
In Adage:Walmart's E-Commerce Surge and Other Takeaways for BrandsBy Jack Neff.Walmart reported fiscal first-quarter earnings today that showed a huge spike in"...
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Home Automation Virtual Agent
Interesting approach that I had not seen .... highlighting the Watson conversation service.Build a Home Automation Virtual Agent on BluemixWith the home automation...
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Most Powerful Quantum Computer
IBM unveils its most powerful quantum processor yetAnd the company is seeking your algorithms and experiments to run on it. .. Andrew Dalton, @dolftown
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Whats Next in AI and Automation
Excellent overview, with useful detail:What’s now and next in analytics, AI, and automationInnovations in digitization, analytics, artificial intelligence, and...
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Examining the Drone Economy
Drones go to Work by Chris Anderson in the HBR. Excellent piece.The disruptive economics of unmanned vehicles are taking hold. Here’s how to think about thePlus...
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Cortana as a Bot Channel
I like thinking of it in this way. Saw it demonstrated by MSFT using Cortana this week. Still means the architecture, operations, context and memory of the bot...
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Amazon and Pharma
Discussion. In Retailwire.Is the $400B prescription drug business ripe for an Amazon disruption?by George AndersonCNBC reported yesterday that Amazon.com is hiring...
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Flash Organizations
Useful idea, now link it to right data.Stanford Researchers Develop Crowdsourcing Software to Convene Rapid, On-Demand 'Flash Organizations'Researchers at Stanford...
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Looking for a long Chat
Interesting goal. Length of a chat implies some engagement, but not necessarily value to the human involved. If the goal is to get a useful answer I want itThe...
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Interview with Vint Cerf
Non technical view of the history and future of the Internet. I should note that this piece contradicts another piece quoting him regarding AI I recently posted...
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Text Mining Memes Online
Interesting progress in text mining that includes repeated memes and context. Technical.A system for extracting and comparing memes in online forumsHéctor Beck...
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Basic Attention Token
The BAT, just brought to my attention, the basic attention token, quite an interesting play, with a browser and a blockchain. Makes sense, but what will the advertisers...
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Podcast: Amazon v Traditional Retail
Podcast from Knowledge@Wharton:Why Amazon Is Leaving Legacy Retailers in the Dust?Wharton's Barbara Kahn and Columbia's Mark A. Cohen discuss what's behind Amazon's...
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Google's VPS uses Tango and Lens
Google's new Visual Positioning System takes learning, Navigation to new Levels.By Brad BourqueGoogle has unveiled its Visual Positioning System, which could usher...
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Google Lens
An impressive next step for machine vision on the phone. Which then permits you go perform tasks that have as an element the recognition of an image. Google Lens...
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Google Assistant on iPhone
In Computerworld: With some cautions.Google Assistant for iPhone: An enterprise perspectiveWhat you need to know ... " .... You can use it to make calls, send...
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Brian Christian:The Computer Science of Human Decisions
From the UC Analytics Summit TomorrowKeynote 1 Friday, 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Title: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human DecisionsAbstract: Many...
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