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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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William James on Attention
William James speaking on a number of very modern concerns. In Brainpickings: " .... Attention … is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid...
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Analytics is more than Self Service
Good thoughts in the SAP Digtalist Mag. " ... Why The Future of Analytics Is About More Than Self-Service ... " by Timo Elliott
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Pizza Service with a Cognitive Smile?
Word that Pizza Hut plans to soon test robots for customer service in Asia. We examined much simpler kiosk-style interactions in retail. Do androids with AI...
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Driverless Carts
More on driverless carts in retailwire. And a discussion. Maybe its not the smart of carts that is important, but the inconvenience.
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Google Rules for VR
Hardly rules, more like general usefulness guidelines. Would like to see more detail here. What works for real enterprise examples?
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Generating Lists from Electronic Medical Records
Late to this presentation, but just examined and worth looking at:" ... Ching-Huei Tsou, from IBM Watson Research,who will present "Toward Generating Domain-specific...
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Data and Decision Making
Ultimately its about how how to apply data and analytics to decision making. Bernard Marr does a good job with some straight forward steps in Forbes. Fairly short...
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Clean Data for Analytics
Recently been involved in the process of addressing data quality. Key for any analytics. A general look. One other way to think of this is to use semantic...
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Python Deep Learning Library
A Python deep learning library from Machine Learnining Mastery. Technical, for the coder:" ... Theano is an open source project released under the BSD license...
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Defining Differential Privacy
Very detailed article on the subject. " .... (recently) at the WWDC keynote, Apple announced a series of new security and privacy features, including one feature...
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Discovery in Big Data
Had not looked at Platfora ... Here integrated with Spark. I see discovery as different than typical machine learning. Not too dissimilar from data visualization...
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Kroger Thinking Blue Apron
In BizJournals: Kroger thinking about getting into the 'Blue Apron' prepared food component delivery market. Good margin, inventory in stock, I am sure, but what...
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Exploring AI Myths
Posted in the Cognitive Systems Institute via Jim Spohrer. Thuoghtful piece. Exploring some of the myths about AI. by Robert D. Atkinson. Lengthy, 40+ pages...
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Watson Driverless Bus
A intriguing combination of Technical trends. Augmenting ...Olli is an IBM Watson-powered driverless electric bus. At least you can ask where you are going ....
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Black Swans and the Price of Oil
All systems that predict future states need to predict future related context. Black swans and barrels: How to think about the future of oil pricesNo one can be...
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Process Maps for Supply Chain Applications
From my former colleague, via YourEncore:Process Maps: Turn-by-Turn Directions That Lead to Supply Chain OptimizationPosted by Bob WestonLast week, Dennis Trchka...
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Siri Opens to Third Party Developers
Saw this annoncement. A near requirement after Echo moved in this space. Depends too on precisely what 'open source' means here. How narrowly is the API...
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Microsoft Buys Wand Labs
More movement toward conversations, bot style, AI. Read my Bots tag below for some of our experience in this space. Bots have an element of 'cognitive' in the...
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Unilever Using Instacart to Test and Learn
In Retailwire:" ... Unilever is one of dozens of CPG partners finding Instacart to be more effective in certain ways when promoting their brands than traditional...
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