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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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Forecasting and Machine learning
Very nice piece on the SAS blog. Which naturally points out a number of SAS tools and their connection to what are now called AI. Am a long time practitioner...
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Vulnerability of the Electric Grid
A long time interest, both regard to cyber attack, and Solar events. Which is more dangerous?Patching the Electric GridOur electric supply is increasingly vulnerable...
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Making AI Work for Everyone
Attended the Google I/O conference today. Very well done. Their CEO talks about how they hope to make AI work for everyone. From mobile first to AI first. ...
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AI for Marketing
I like the point made about data. AI (aka Augmented Intelligence). Is just a better way to make decisions based on data. Difficult problems in changing contexts...
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Why Quantum Computing is Useful for Business
A long time interest of mine. We re getting closer.It’s time to decide how quantum computing will help your businessAs the tech advances and investments grow...
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Facebook Platform for Dialog Research
Brought to my attention. Facebook is doing lots with dialog and hybrid interactions, so its a natural place for this kind of research. Essential for chatbots...
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Amazon Alexa will Deliver Skill-Based Notifications
This does not sound like much, but it is a considerable thing. You still have to ask for the notification. Which could cause a problem depending on how many notifications...
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Wal-Mart Next Gen Stores
In Retailwire, with discussion. Not too different from our own retail store labs. Except, the testing the much stronger connection to online ordering.Will Walmart...
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Drone Economy
Particularly interested in the data collection and autonomous, sensor driven aspects of drones.Join HBR and Chris Anderson as we look at the world of unmannedThe...
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An Executive Guide to Machine Learning
Good, well written, non-technical, also a bit dated (from mid 2015) as to current influences this tech is having. An executive's view, with a number of useful...
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Collaborative Robotics: CoBots
The term is not much used, but makes the point. All computing systems are collaborative in some way. We have accepted the assistance of computers for a long time...
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Synthetic Sensors
Most interesting development to make implementing sensors more efficient.Internet of Things Made Simple: One Sensor Package Does Work of Many Carnegie Mellon News...
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Watson for Cyber Security
Good example in these days of increasing cyber security risk. Watson for Cyber Security. This appears to be a less quantitative and more semantic domain than most...
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GE Digital Industrial Transformation Playbook
Good information about GE's efforts.GE Draws Up Playbook for Digital TransformationGE spent several years trying to effect its own digital transformation; now it's...
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Personal Assistants Come to the Fridge
Assistants spreading out through the home. Note again that Samsung owns Harman-Kardon, which is embedding Cortana in a future smart speaker. This is getting...
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Manipulators of the Mind
Was brought up in this same age of of behavioral economics and advertising tricks. But they never came of age until there was technology interactive enough to deliver...
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Future of Artificial Intelligence
An interesting discussion in Infoq:The Future of Artificial Intelligence (Recorded talk):Participants: Carrie Solinger is Industry Analyst, IDC. Michael Natusch...
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Machine Learning for Summarizing Text
Accurately and efficiently summarizing text has been a classic goal of AI systems, of interest that Salesforce, known for doing AI experimenting in this space,Salesforce...
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Extracting Knowledge from Job Descriptions
Below was brought to my attention, no so much as to aid HR, but to better understand the nature of jobs and their component tasks. And how that links to augmentation...
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