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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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The Form of Driverless Cars
Driverless Cars Must Have Steering Wheels, Brake Pedals, Feds SayAutonomous vehicles could meet current safety standards, but only if they include standard features...
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Doing it Smarter, Faster, Better
Brought to my attention:Mind Over MatterEveryone wants to be more productive. And as a result, there is a not insignificant industry of books, conferences, andIn...
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Marketing Bots
This article doesn't provide much useful detail. But the direction is clear. Bots can provide simplified applications of AI in any communicating system. Then...
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Biofactories of the Future
Pointing to a Nature article of interest. " ..... From an evolutionary perspective, yeast has no business producing a pain killer. But by re-engineering the microbe's...
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Commoditizing Software
And further by adding new tools to integrate code and problems, and codes written by multiple people.Commoditization of CodingThe cloud- or industry-specific approach...
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Gaming Industry Technologies
We often looked to to the gaming industry for hardware and software that was driving decisions and operations. Here a good set of examples of current technology...
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AI for High Frequency Trading
Via the Financial Revolutionist:Note the statement that this simulates the insights of experienced traders. So more of an expertise based system rather than a...
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Combining Data and Creativity
Broadly a favorite topic. Ultimately it has always been there as a combination of generate-and-test methods. Your creativity will always be tested in the market...
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What Exactly is a Bot?
The word Bot has started to be used again. But what is it? I was struck by Matt Galligan's piece in Medium which takes a broad look at the definition. We built...
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Poets and Script Writers for Virtual Assistants, Bots
In the WaPo: Intriguing idea. Make a Virtual Assistant as human and engaging as possible with clever writing and narratives. I have seen aspects of this work...
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Future of Economics in Machine Learning
Makes sense. Both economics and machine learning are driven by pattern detection and re application. " .... Economists have largely preferred to act within their...
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Stormy Evolution of Mathematics
A network visualization of the evolution of mathematics. Pretty narrow interest but still an example of how to visualize networks.
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Media Services Getting Smarter
A continuing trend. Intelligence can consist of including higher level services. But these have to be correct and consistent under varying data contexts. That...
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Accenture Builds a Virtual Assistant called MyWizard
Continued efforts to build virtual assistants. Named MyWizard. Note the industry specific elements and knowledge. How much local learning? I like the statement...
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Bots Auto Captioning Photos
An area I worked in both in the enterprise, and with a startup. Google and Facebook have done work in this area. Now Microsoft is also doing such captioning,...
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Connecting Analytics to Data
Good thoughts in the Cisco Blog:" ... In every industry data is being created in places it never has before, creating hyper-distributed data environments. It is...
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Doing Data for Startups
From Matt RitterGood thoughts on the topic, have worked with startups in this area, and it is quite different. Free guide and more here at the link. He writes:...
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Mass Customization
We looked at this a number of ways, in particular how customization could be applied at different stages of manufacturing and delivery. Driven by optimal cost Operations...
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Mycroft Virtual Assistant Advances to Developers
Mycroft, an always listening virtual assistant:An artificial Intelligence for everyone?Challenging to Amazon Echo, Siri, Cortana ...In Kickstarter development.Their...
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