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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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2017 CES Wired Live Blog
Used to attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for the enterprise, tracking technology applications. Now watch it much more comfortably from my desk and don't...
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Mercedes Silicon Valley Research Center
Excerpt. Mercedes is known for interesting work, see the tag below for more posts on them. Considering the volume of data involvedInside Mercedes' Silicon Valley...
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LG's Announces Hub Robot Assistant
Note this uses Alexa's Voice recognition. Another embedding example.LG's new robot helpers are cute and friendly AF by Karissa BellThe Korean company showcased...
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Amazon Alexa at Consumer Electronics Show
Most interesting is that Alexa continues to be embedded into a number of systems. Amazon does not want to be in the business of selling echo branded boxes, but...
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Improving the Value of Data Science
Of interest, taught aspects of this at my recent Columbia Course. The PDF below is very visual and largely non-technical. Worth a look.Optimizing the Effectiveness...
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ZigBee's Dotdot Language Seeks Harmony
Been a while since I have looked at ZigBee, new developments to link attached devices. ZigBee's Dotdot language aims for IoT harmonyThe new application layer defines...
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Link to My Personal Assistant Studies
As a part of a broader AI study I have been examining how personal assistants can interact with deeper AI, and what architecture will best support their further...
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Lenovo Launches Smart Assistant
Yet another smart speaker plus idea, reported in Business Insider. The dynamic of integrating the brain of Alexa into many devices is interesting. I am worried...
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Coke Closes Startup Incubator
With some interesting insights on how a big company can deal with startups or pre-startups. In TechCrunch. Followed Coke's innovations for some time. See previous...
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A Blow to Patent Trolls
Was involved in a very small way in the actions of a patent troll, an Opinion piece by Evan Schuman on changes in the legal system that could stop them. Will this...
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Replacing Taxis with Rideshare Cars
Spent some time in NYC lately observing the traffic and talking to cabbies. Good experience. The analyis from MIT is also interesting. This shows some opportunities...
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What Mark Zuckerberg Learned about Running His Home with AI
In Facebook. This has been out for a while, but just got to it. For the deep geek within us, an understandable journey, you can almost feel your coding muscles...
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Fielding a Hundred Thousand Questions
Via O'Reilly. We did something similar when creating our Extempo bot system, but only included a few hundred questions. Nice to see Microsoft pushing research...
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More Language Translating with Google Home
Have been testing Google Home's language translation capabilities. You can translate spoken words or phrases from English into a large set of target languages...
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Oculus and Eye Tracking
A natural next step, for both games and more serious applications. In Engadget:Oculus now owns an eye-tracking companyThe Eye Tribe's visual tracking technology...
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Analytics in Fashion Retail
A few weeks ago was re-introduced to apparel and fashion retail analytics trends. Here came upon a broad look at recent trends in the area. In Smartdatacollective...
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Immune Systems as the Future of Cybersecurity
Saw this idea proposed quite a long time ago, May well be the way to introduce security. In concept anyway. What would the intelligence of such an immune system...
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Smart Hearing Houses
Virtual Assistants in the smart home are attentive in their hearing. Why not have the entire house create a hearing and sensing network? This could be done my...
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Connecting Robotics, Future Trajectories
And more on the future of assistants. And will the use of assistant/toys mean that children will be well primed for these capabilities? And their acceptanceFrom...
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