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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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Customer Service Chatbots Across Industry
Customer serrvice is an obvious application. Starting with access to FAQ, then going to a full interactive conversation prompted by analysis of customer data and...
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CPG and Analytics
Consumer Package Goods (CPG) companies have been working these problems for a long time.How analytics is helping CPG companies drive growthPosted by Ashish Sukhadeve...
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Innovation Ecosystem
Brought to my attention, the Innovation Ecosystem.What is the Innovation EcosystemWe believe passionately in the power of ecosystems to achieve outcomes not possible...
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Whats a Blockchain?
In Computerworld, a good, nontechnical view of Blockchains, what they are, their expected business value, and examples of the companies using and developing them...
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Alexa's New Speech Synthesis Language
I was just testing an App today, and was thinking about how her voice sounded natural but robotic ... Now expect to see this to change as developers create applications...
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Baidu's Little Fish Virtual Assistant
Recall we previously looked at reports on this, aka Duer. Another platform for Conversational Commerce? In a very large market to experiment with.Baidu's 'Little...
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Isolation Forests for Anomaly Detection
New to me, but seems to be worthwhile to run, at least in parallel to other techniques for now. Potentially good for smaller datasets. Anomaly Detection UsingOne...
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Will Conversational Commerce be Next?
Conversational Commerce. First I heard that specific phrase. Consider the posts made in this blog in just the past few days as evidence, by very big players.In...
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AI Will Improve and Even Replace Bad Management
Yes, to the extent that it will improve all management. The way many decades of digital methods have improved the process of management. Making it faster, better...
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Gartner on Future Customer Experience
In the Gartner Blog. Towards more AI intervention to drive user experience. The Customer Experience of the Future by Jessica EkholmGreater competition and growing...
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Exploring Your Data
Nathan Yau in FlowingData points to some teachers of information visualization banning the phrase 'exploratory data analysis' in dataviz applications. As pointing...
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Amazon Doubles Down on Echo Ecosystem
Amazon is 'doubling down' on the Echo ecosystemAmazon's future includes Alexa, AI and AWS. by Jessica Conditt ....Amazon is off to a profitable start in 2017."We're...
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Virtual Dash Buttons for Replenishment
Now there are also Virtual Dash Buttons, software shortcuts that work the same as physical buttons, can work on devices like tablets and phones. Allow for quick...
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Build the Google Assistant on Anything
Let the competition begin for assistance. Taking a close look at the architecture. Rumors of similar capabilities from Apple/Siri are also emerging.The Google...
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R Packages for Data Wrangling
Most of this is quite well known, but provides an excellent lengthy table of resources. Like the extent of the information, there will be things you don't know...
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Acting Quickly
In the HBR, Its part of the risk model.How to Act Quickly Without Sacrificing Critical Thinking by Jesse SostrinAn unbridled urgency can be counterproductive...
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Transparency not Needed in Health Care Deep Learning?
Not sure I agree. Will the accuracy and kinds of errors be the same? Liability implications. And also, who will be liable for errors that are made? Will the...
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Baidu and a Free OS for Cars
Quite an interesting play. Open source OS for self driving cars. An unexpected thing from a player like China via Baidu. Maybe free but not open source? In...
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Amazon Echo Look Fashion Assistant
A kind of 'magic mirror' play. We experimented with, primarily in cosmetics. Can that be far away? Following. Currently available only by invitation. InAmazon...
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