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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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Alexa Delivers Medical Advice via WebMD
An example where an advisory system is essentially just replacing a long existing web service. With the convenience of voice interaction. With no additional conversational...
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Interpreting Machine Learning
By their nature the results from deep learning and neural methods can be non transparent. Via O'Reilly.Ideas on interpreting machine learningMix-and-match approaches...
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Google Tango Location is Testing at Lowes
Been a long time tester of retail location intelligence solutions. Now news that Lowes is starting to test Google Tango location intelligence using augmented reality...
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Will we be Dinosaurs in Three Years?
Reminds me of things said at the end of the last AI up tick ... Wildly exaggerated. Most of us will use it rather than develop it. Mark Cuban via Via O'Reilly...
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Gadget Earth Video
A video view of the personalities and capabilities of drones and other semi autonomous gadgets out of the recent CES conference. From the Verge. Impressive...
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Smartphones Revolutionizing Medicine
In the CACM: New details on gow smrtphone devices are changing medicine and health data.
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Will AI Transform Retail Marketing
Will AI transform retail marketing? by Tom Ryan In Retailwire:A survey from Sailthru finds more retailers using artificial intelligence (AI) to support marketing...
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Alexa and Roomba in the Smart Home
We worked with the Roomba concept. Though I liked the idea, never found it useful enough to add to our smart home .... Will it be more useful enough when voice...
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Cars Learning
More broadly, what kinds of things can cars learn to make them better and cheaper? Gets to better understanding the consumer needs and related processes. Have...
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Amazon Outfit Compare
We worked on a number of related virtual comparison ideas over the years. Aimed at things like eyeware and cosmetics. None were completely successful. Can...
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Singularity by 2045?
Says Kurzweil, Google's Director of Engineering. Will that mean Google Drive will be the approved recepticle? Google Analytics the means of understanding? Deep...
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Bots Build their Own Language
More on applications of reinforcement. We did something similar using a genetic driver, but no mention of that here. Would that improve learning?It Begins:Cade...
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Deep Mind Memory Trick
A deeper yet biomimicry?How DeepMind’s Memory Trick Helps AI Learn FasterWhile AI systems can match many human capabilities, they take 10 times longer to learn....
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UPS Testing Drones
How can they attached to the supply chain? Nests in the truck roof? Discussion: In Retailwire:Can UPS fly past Amazon in drone delivery? by Matthew SternAmazon...
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Conversation: Beyond Moments of Truth
Its all about conversation. It used to be about 'moments of truth', but now more about much more fluid conversations that can be generated and sustained byIn...
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McKinsey on Home Bots
Good piece, though ultimately driving the smart home will need many new 'things' present to influence digitally. We have started to see examples with Cortana,Article...
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AI Dangers and Risks
Continued talk on the topic. AI Dangers: Imagined and Real By Devdatt Dubhashi, Shalom LappinCommunications of the ACM, Vol. 60 No. 2, Pages 43-4510.1145/2953876...
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AI Driven Automation in Law
In some ways, the most obvious application. A heavily document and analysis driven world. Was frequently mentioned in the 80s, but not implemented because the...
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Folding Clothes
In a long while ago meeting about how easy it was to do various household tasks, it was brought up that while washing clothes was relatively easy, folding them...
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