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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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Protecting yourself from Doxing
Computer security expert Bruce Schneier blogs about Doxing. (spreading private information, true or not). The solutions are not unexpected, but worth repeating...
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Self Driving without Backup?
In Reuters. Seems premature. Though I agree that the behavior of such a car needs to be different and well understood. Could that be best done in simulators...
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Chatbot Concierge for your Hair
Not far different from some of our own attempts to provide a concierge style link that could help both the consumer and the brand. An advisoryWhat a Chatbot Can...
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Walking the Experience Talk
In Customerthink, good consideration.What is Walking the Customer Experience Talk? Featured Column by Lynn Hunsaker CustomerThink Advisor featured columnist Top...
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Designing for Alexa
Intriguing thoughts, and I then ask: Is Alexa Skill management best architected to produce easy to create and maintain knowledge? The latter is a huge deal,...
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On AI Adoption
Good thoughts. really for any kind of 'automation' adoption. And the complexities of introducing any kind of non trivial change. I recently taught this at...
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Product Recommender in Python
More Python example than recommender. But also a useful view of programming in this domain. Via O'Reilly.
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Predicting Flash Floods with Weather Data
Good case Study from O'Reilly. I like the use of weather data, which can be problematic. Here converted to classification and thus prediction from embedded decision...
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Superforecasting and Good Decision Makers
This is such an important issue. So many claims are made for good forecasting, but it is only as good as it is integrated into good decision making. Forecasting...
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Who is winning at Monetizing AI?
I basically agree, though IBM leads now at the enterprise level, though it is still early. some supporting details at the link. I would also not eliminate startups...
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IBM and Salesforce Partner with Watson
I agree with the statement that cognitive systems will continue to touch increasing numbers of people. If this will be by Watson, and how soon it will become universal...
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Kuri Robot to Add Facial Recognition
Been following the claimed advances in the Kuri home robot, which now says it includes facial recognition and reaction. See their March Newsletter. Available...
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On Genuine Smiles
In Inc: Smiles, real and fake. The Duchenne smile was tested for machine interaction and positive reaction to products.Examined for possible use in how people...
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Kroger Testing Uber for Delivery
Discussion on Kroger and Uber in Retailwire:Will using Uber for home deliveries work for Kroger? by George AndersonKroger’s streak of quarterly same-store gains...
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Tracking Ships, Containers with Blockchain
Another example of the used of blockchain as a database, a secure open distributed ledger.The blockchain heads out to sea as IBM and Maersk develop ship tracking...
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Data Science Blog Posts from DSC
A selection of very useful blog posts from DSC by Vincent Granville. In particular about topics like deep learning. From introductory tutorials to advanced....
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Lisp, the Language
For some of our earliest AI applications we used the 'intelligent' language Lisp. It was key for us to implement learning modules. But have not seen much about...
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Voice Banking Assistants
Security will have to be very well done.Voice banking arrives on home virtual assistantsby Jack Dougal, BANKING.COMAmazon’s Echo device has been one of the biggest...
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AI Changing the 80/20 Rule
Interesting and perceptive thoughts about the implications of AI In the HBR:AI Is Going to Change the 80/20 Ruleby Michael SchrageMany high-performance organizations...
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