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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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Smart Jewelry
Beyond Smart watches.Berkshire Hathaway jumps into wearables with a smart jewelry lineAs consumers spend more on technology and less on jewelry, the Berkshire Hathaway...
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Virtual Reality is Transforming Healthcare
Intriguing, but I have yet to see it in operation in any health care setting and I have seen many. Looking for a realistic example.How Virtual Reality is Transforming...
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Danger of Devices like Alexa to Security
Have been a user and experimenter with Alexa, Google Home and Cortana since their introduction. Been asked about privacy implications. Agency thoughts were recently...
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Driverless Trucks Leads to Need for More Drivers?
In Supply Chain Digest, some unexpected indications?Why Driverless Trucks May Create the Need for More DriversLess Expensive Transportation may Lead to More Local...
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Amazon Estimating Age with AI
In the Verge: Estimating age from images: " ... Amazon’s latest artificial intelligence tool is a piece of image recognition software that can learn to guess...
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Amazon Consults on Your Smart Home
Amazon offers to consult on setting up your smart home. In Retailwire." ... Amazon.com has rolled out a new service on the West Coast, which offers free in-home...
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How an AI Won at Poker
In Engadget: How the AI won in a game with very high uncertainty. Intriguing with lots of detail. How might this be carried over to the business operations world...
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Target Cuts Back on Innovation
Target shelves robot store and secret e-commerce start-up by George Anderson, In Retailwire:Target is cutting back on its innovation project plans to concentrate...
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AI's Cooperating
Perhaps the most important question of all, both in the relatively simplistic sense of assistants cooperating with us, and the much deeper sense of working together...
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War Gaming for Training
Like the idea, we never made it formal, but tested the concept driven by competition.Is your team’s new engineer ready to take on-call? Use wargames for training...
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New Marketing Models
Marketing, Mr Clean and Shifting Models (Excerpt, read the whole thing)P&G Super Bowl Ads Point to a Shift in the Marketing Model by Bob GilbreathCo-Founder &...
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IBM Launches Cognitive Computing Hardware
Ultimately faster and tailored hardware will be required for machine learning.In ZDNet:IBM launches cognitive computing hardware unit: Enter the Watson, Power 9...
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Gaussian Processes for Modeling with Uncertainty
Gaussian Processes, like Bayesian methods introduce natural uncertainty to modeling. And provide more transparency than deep learning neural nets to the models...
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Algorithm vs Data
On the use of data and algorithms to predict crime in the US data. Extensive, largely non technical article.It's Not the Algorithm, It's the Data By Keith Kirkpatrick...
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Outlier Detection in Time Data
Outlier detection and analysis is an important topic for any kind of data. Outliers, depending on their context, can be useful, or dangerous in the development...
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On Accuracy of In-Store Inventory
Have been involved in the analyses based on physical inventory taking. Estimation from Tlog tapes and RFID tags. Have taken laborious physical counts as well....
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Supporting Team Cognition
Ultimately quite an important topic. How do groups think? How do we make them better?" ... our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series on Thursday, February...
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Video Pattern Magnification
Quite interesting, technical.Eulerian Video Magnification and AnalysisBy Neal Wadhwa, Hao-Yu Wu, Abe Davis, Michael Rubinstein, Eugene Shih, Gautham J. Mysore,Communications...
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Game Theory in Practice
A apace we worked in, especially to understand and react to models of competitive activity. In practice usually means getting good understanding of how these models...
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