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Rolling Newspaper Delivery Drones in Tokyo
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rolling Newspaper Delivery Drones in Tokyo

 More advances in navigating street and sidewalks for automated delivery.  Lifting of restrictions on autonomous systems will also be key.Japan Post Delivery Robot...

Getting Serious about Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Serious about Data Science

Fairly obvious, seen many of these situations occur over the years in analytics and data interactions.  And how they are linked to business results.   Good checklist...

Comparing Human vs Computer Viruses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Comparing Human vs Computer Viruses

 Interesting view with potentially useful comparisons.Protecting Computers and People From Viruses   By Robin K. Hillin in ACMCommunications of the ACM, October...

Automation Anywhere Digital Assistant lets humans and Bots Interact
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automation Anywhere Digital Assistant lets humans and Bots Interact

Seems quite an advance, allowing Bots and Humans to effectively Interact.  But we did a similar thing when we allowed our Mr. Clean bots to talk to human experts...

Accesibility Update of Google Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Accesibility Update of Google Assistant

Looks to be interesting, will do some testing on my devices.  Such advances ultimately add to accessibility for everyone.New updates make Google Assistant even ...

Voice AI Business Services
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voice AI Business Services

 Voice based and AI assistant business services have been proposed for some time, we tested several. links to voice analysis and phone management.   Here a newEnterprise...

MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts
From The Eponymous Pickle

MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts

Very interesting,  in ACM.  Thinking this further.MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart ContractsBy Neville Grech, Michael Kong, Anton Jurisevic, Lexi...

Legal Tech Startups
From The Eponymous Pickle

Legal Tech Startups

 Recall our continuing look at 'smart contract'  efforts and implications.6 LegalTech Startups Disrupting the Legal Industry  in PRNewswire“Lawyers are the only...

IBM Launches AI at Scale to Marketing and Media
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IBM Launches AI at Scale to Marketing and Media

Again IBM is targeting large Industry sectors with AI.  Note specific mention of consumer privacy. IBM Brings Artificial Intelligence At Scale To The Marketing in...

Free Book on Computational Agents
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free Book on Computational Agents

The use of an agent to represent objects, IOTs or people is very useful.  Closer, but not the same as classic optimization models.  The book and comments here are...

Gartner Hype Cycle on AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gartner Hype Cycle on AI

Nicely done overview, including the classic hype cycle of AI at the link.Hype Cycle of AI In The Enterprise AI    By Svetlana Sicular  We recently published for...

Samsung Shuts Down Bixby AR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Samsung Shuts Down Bixby AR

Recall we looked at Bixby closely here for assistant capabilities in appliance domains. And in particular noted the blending of AR capabilities, though saw no practical...

Google Rebrands G Suite
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Rebrands G Suite

Working with clients and universities have often had to use G Suite.   Just recently received a message saying that some of the spaces I created there will be removed...

Algorithms Automate Bioengineering Cells
From The Eponymous Pickle

Algorithms Automate Bioengineering Cells

A step forward it seems on synthetic biology is to automate aspects of it.Machine Learning Takes on Synthetic Biology: Algorithms Can Bioengineer Cells for YouLawrence...

Simulating Animals to Track Behavior
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simulating Animals to Track Behavior

Quite interesting. Perhaps to use as a means of controlling blights?    Or as a means to discover new kinds of biomimicry.Fruit Flies Plug into the Matrix  Scientific...

InTernal Integration of AI Chips
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InTernal Integration of AI Chips

Continued work on AI oriented computer chips.Chip Designed by AI   by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore from TechXploreA*STAR researchers...

Github Code Scanning  to Find Vulnerabilities
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Github Code Scanning to Find Vulnerabilities

Like the idea of scanning for basic vulnerabilities.  and ultimately linking to code automation.  Further would like these to be adapted to specific domain risk...

Neural Networks Trained to Apply Anesthetics
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Neural Networks Trained to Apply Anesthetics

Apparently an example of direct process control. Risk involved?Neural Network Trained to Control Anesthetic Doses, Keep Patients Under During SurgeryZDNet.  BYResearchers...

Do Robots Make us Happier?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Do Robots Make us Happier?

Not sure they are meant to.   Do calculators make us happier?  Computers? The Internet?   No they just give us the option for some assistive benefit ...  whichRobots...

Risk Based Authentication
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Risk Based Authentication

Had seen this before, not called this.    Here in  Schneier.  As I recall in our brief look, a higher level of false negatives.  Here a more serious look.On Risk...
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