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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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Why is Amazon Alexa Dominant Now?
We sit here with a number of voice competitors that will soon be released, including the Google Home, which may have better AI.Why Amazon Alexa is so dominant right...
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Big Data vs Human AI
Quite a distance between them. Its not remarkable intelligence yet.From big data to human-level artificial intelligenceWhat explains the gap between what machines...
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Smart Shirts for First Responders
U.S. backs research into smart shirts for emergency responders by Donal PowerThe U.S. government is funding an Internet of Things (IoT) project that is developing...
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Using Twitch to Predict the Future
Can Twitch teach us the future? New to Twitch but unclear it can do this consistently. Any data contains elements of the future within it. What if you observed...
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Robot has a Tail
In IEEE Spectrum: Robot uses actuator tail for transport.
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IOT as an Integration of Things
Nicely done article. Clear it is an integration of things. But the how and details need to be closely considered. In Readwrite: " ... When comparing this market...
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Medicine and Chatbots
Been using email with my doctors for some time. Even the point of sharing data and its interpretation, at least at a high level. Seems they still run nervous...
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Why Marketers Fail in Product Innovation
In Knowledge@Wharton:Why Marketers Often Miss the Mark in Product InnovationsWhy do most new products fail? According to Clayton Christensen, the author of Competing...
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Columbia University Course on Analytics Change
Next week I will be giving Course in Columbia University's School of Professional Studies entitled: Applied Analytics PS5700 Analytics and Leading Change. Any...
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So What is AI and when Should we invoke it?
Roger Schank, long time AI guru, who we talked to when building our own 'intelligent' systems. talks about what AI may really mean. This sounds like conversations...
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Power BI adds R
Interesting that many dashboard level visualization methods are adding links to deeper data science like R. Should allow us to start with general visualization...
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Four Case Studies for a Data Driven Organization
In the MIT Sloan Review: Four case Studies for Data Driven OrgsOrganizations across the business spectrum are awakening to the transformative power of data and...
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Unilever Innovates with Trucking Supply Chain
Trucking Startup Convoy Inks Its Biggest Deal With Unilever by Dina BassUnilever contract involves 10s of thousands of trucks a yearConvoy Inc., a Seattle-based...
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Designing AI Systems that Obey Laws and Values
In the CACM. The currently much discussed issues of laws, ethics and values for advanced computation. Usually applied to AI, but really also applicable to any...
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A Cognitive Shopping Research Assistant
IBM is acquiring expertise to be directly enhanced via Watson methods. Here aimed at pre shopping research. IBM acquires Watson-based cognitive shopping assistant...
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Microsoft Flow now Open
Microsoft’s IFTTT alternative is now open to everyoneMicrosoft Flow comes out of beta and is free to use by Natt Garun .... " In Verge: A Flow is an action that...
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HipChat on Echo for the Office Assistant?
With Alexa providing a more active orientation. HipChat is team chat and file sharing system. Akin to Slack, which I have used with a client. Is this the way...
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Google Explore in Docs using Semantics
Google continues to move towards business useful business Apps and intelligence. This has similarities to 'Research' in Word. Reminds us of looking at 'remembrance...
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Blockchain Taken Beyond Bitcoin
Good non-technical detail about the direction and potential.Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin By Sarah Underwood Communications of the ACM, Vol. 59 No. 11, Pages 15-17...
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