Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbot Retention Problem
The open question is, how well will people accept non human online interaction? Bots can be novel, but that is not enough. Bottom line, they need to provide...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Industrial Lab for IoT
National Instruments industrial IoT lab unites rivalsCisco, HPE, Intel and others help sponsor the lab to show enterprises that IoT systems can work By Stephen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digimarc at the NRF
I had mentioned Digimarc and their advanced product marking technologies, recently in a post. They will be present at the upcoming 2017 NRF show on January 15...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intro to Neural Networks and Meta-Frameworks for Deep Learning with TensorFlow
This starts with the basics of neural networks, which I find very useful. Good straightforward overview of the topic. Also addresses the kinds of learningIntroduction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why: A Guide to Finding and Using Causes
I brought this book up some time ago. And as I read it am struck by how essential is is to understand cause and effect when working with data, analytics, machine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Services for the Google Home
Want to know what it takes to develop new services for systems like the assistants Amazon Echo and Google Home? Came upon this largely non technical and simplified...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transfer Learning for AI Projects
Had always thought that intelligence was about learning, so this concept struck me. Note mention of improbable events and model correctness maintenance, always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uncertainty in US Economy
In Knowledge@Wharton, on uncertainty in the US economy" ... “The biggest risk we face is uncertainty. If you ask every business leader, their biggest concernHarker...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pringles are Getting Louder
Kellogg bought Pringles canned chips from P&G in 2012 for $2.7 Billion. Was slightly involved in the brand. The new brand is pushing new and spicy tastes, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbots in Retail
In Retailwire. Is 2017 the year of the retail chatbot? Some good discussion. We are not there yet, there are still some issues to be worked out, but as long...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Geneva: Understands 55 Billion Utterances
Examining how devices are attached to voice interfaces." ... Use Your Voice: Introducing voice-activated control of your GE WiFi Connect appliances with Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stretchable Transistors
Unexpected thing, the transistors I worked with were anything but stretchable.Transistor Stretchier Than Skin for Ultra-Flexible Wearable Tech By New Scientist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Impressions: People, Brands?
Quite interesting results. Does a lapse of time still not heal the first impression? Is this also the case with a brand?Science: First Impressions Are EvenNew...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BPM Empowering IoT and Defining Analytics
A favorite topic. How Business Process Modeling (BPM) could be used with analytics and AI to really understand and improve business process. Here in the Jan-Feb...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Softbank Pepper Sales Robot
A relook at the SoftBank humanoid Pepper robot. Seems the test they mention that showed increases in sales is far too short, and could have largely been driven...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Everything is a Virtual Assistant Now
CW look at the future of virtual assistants, based on the explosion of solutions delivered and embedded, shown at CES last week. Good points made about 'supporting'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Recognition by Baidu and KFC China
Long have discussed facial recognition uses. Here a test at the point of sale at KFC China. Evan Schuman makes a good case that the proposed use is dangerous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's Cognitive Advantage Report
What is cognition? Why should we care? Who is using it? How do we get started? Comprehensive look. Get it below. Good information and statistics. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Digital Advertising
AI and deeper analytics continues to drive more intelligent decisions. I always ask: To what degree will the decisions be autonomous? And how will they be...
From The Eponymous Pickle