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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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Marvin Minsky and AI
I see that Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer, died a few days ago. " ... American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts...
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Wal-Mart Invests in Bangalore Data Analytics
I spent some time in Bangalore, gave a talk to a future looking group there, and found some exciting things going on. In Computer Weekly:Retail giant Wal-Mart is...
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Sony and IOT
In GigaOM: " .. The first is that Sony is forming Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) from all the units contributing to Playstation, hardware, software, and network...
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Microsoft Linking Cortana AI to Mail
Been disappointed by the value of Microsoft's virtual agent Cortana. Too often just acting as a front end to their search engine Bing. Now they are said to be...
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Microsoft Opens its Deep Learning Toolkit
Been taking a deeper look at the neural net based process of deep learning. Now Microsoft has released its own Deep Learning toolkit. There are many good resources...
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AI Comes to the Factory Floor
IBM Works with IOT Startup. Expected this direction much earlier, we worked on similar maintenance related approaches. See Wi-Next. See competitive (?)...
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Jerry Kaplan on the State of AI: Humans Can Still Apply
Jerry Kaplan talk at Google. Kaplan was one of the founders of Teknowledge, who we partnered with in the 1980s. The partnership led , among other efforts, to...
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Microsoft R Server
In CWorld: Continued movement by big IT players into advanced analytics services." ... Microsoft this week took the next step following its acquisition of Revolution...
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Looking forward at BI
Forward view of Business Intelligence. PDF eBook by IBM:" ... Making smarter business decisions quickly and confidently drives business value across an entire organization...
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Experience versus Innovation
General look in Innovation Excellence. A simplistic way to look at this is it is a form of 'generate and test'. With inexperienced youth generating and experienced...
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RFID and Beacons
We experimented with this in lab settings to test in store product interactions. More likely meaningful in areas like apparel. A further enablement of Beacons...
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Creating Business Value Through Graph Analytics
Graph Analytics is an interesting topic, but how it creates value is often hard to describe. A well known vendor Neo4j, provides some good examples of its value...
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Slopegraph Visualizations
Have seen them often, but was unaware of the term. Most packages today support them, from Tableau to Python to R. I like the simplicity. In ForumOne:...
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A Look at Bayes Theorem
In Sciam: Bayesian thinking is growing. Here a largely non technical look at its value and limitations. Nice read. In general I find methods driven by Bayesian...
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Watson and Vineyards
IBM has been talking much about weather data and internet of things. So it is natural to see this piece about a process control style application to the watering...
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Martin Lindstrom: Small Data
I see that former colleague Martin Lindstrom has a new book forthcoming: Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends . Have not seen it yet, but I like...
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Answering Why
Why? A Discussion about Cognitive Architectures and Deep Thinking!Jack Park from TopicQuests Foundation " ... a foundation dedicated to the support and evolution...
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New Google Glass
In CWorld: Look at the possible evolution of Google Glass, and likely competitors. Still just attentive (and intrusive) rather than VR immersive.
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Remembering Photos with Deep Learning
In CACM: Deep learning photo memorability" ... Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...
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