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New Ways to Build Assistant Voice Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Ways to Build Assistant Voice Apps

Look forward to the details on this, any way you can create better intelligence is good.   Note changes in training methods.Google Assistant Upgrades Action Developer...

Getting Pay for Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Pay for Data

Another project with aim at paying users for their data.  Links to our long term data as an asset view.Andrew Yang Is Pushing Big Tech to Pay Users for DataBy The...

SAP and IBM Announce New Intelligence Offerings
From The Eponymous Pickle

SAP and IBM Announce New Intelligence Offerings

Next steps between SAP and IBM partnership:  Digital Transformation towards the intelligent enterprise.In Cision: PRNewswire  https://www.prnewswire.com/IBM and...

Hitchhiking Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hitchhiking Drones

And had mentioned this novel idea as well in a recent post.  Also covered in considerable detail in IEEE Spectrum.  As noted will require some considerable design...

Spot Robotic Dog Now Available
From The Eponymous Pickle

Spot Robotic Dog Now Available

It here, good piece on the rollout in IEEE Spectrum by Evan Ackerman.     Been noting some application plans here over several years.    Expensive, but if it effectively...

A Domain-Specific Supercomputer for Training Deep Neural Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Domain-Specific Supercomputer for Training Deep Neural Networks

Good explanation of the phases of using computing power for these kinds of problems.A Domain-Specific Supercomputer for Training Deep Neural NetworksBy Norman P...

Price of Personal Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Price of Personal Data

Looking for the full report mentioned here, will post when I get a reference.  Back to the our long time looked at question of what the price of private data should...

Is Slow Neuroinformatics Private?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is Slow Neuroinformatics Private?

I have worked with companies which used machine learning image analysis to determine, for example, if a person was 'of age' in various locations.  To match with...

IBM Research Director on Science and HPCC
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Research Director on Science and HPCC

Continued work with high performance computing by IBM.IBM's research director on how tech can push science beyond the pandemicDario Gil, who's been nominated to...

Drones Changing Shape
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drones Changing Shape

An example of how defensive activities of Drones are also at play.Research Leads to Army Drones Changing Shape Mid-FlightU.S. ArmyJune 16, 2020Researchers at the...

Segway's Done
From The Eponymous Pickle

Segway's Done

We had a Segway very early in in our future stopping store.  It turned lots of heads in those days.  We taught incoming visitors to drive them.   Were they just...

Uber Crosses the road
From The Eponymous Pickle

Uber Crosses the road

A good example of the complexity of data mining / machine learning data.  Via O'Reilly.Inside Uber ATG’s Data Mining Operation: Identifying Real Road ScenariosSteffon...

Sketch to Realistic Image
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sketch to Realistic Image

Seen several attempts on this, but none that impressive. We used one to quickly map out possible process decisions.   Implications of 'fake' are always there, but...

Baidu Doing Drone Forestry Inspections with AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Baidu Doing Drone Forestry Inspections with AI

Recall I worked with forestry management applications, so the need here rings true.  Note the system mentioned PaddlePaddle is open sourced.Baidu’s deep-learning...

Simple Economics of the Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simple Economics of the Blockchain

Considerable and interesting piece, well worth reading if you are considering blockchain use. And a proposition of the Blockchain's value.    Not very technical...

Microsoft Relaunches Cortana without Alexa
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Relaunches Cortana without Alexa

Was initially impressed by the cooperation between Microsoft and Amazon, but admit I saw little from it.  Why not not have a joint effort to provide assistant intelligence...

The Nature  of Visual Illusions
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Nature of Visual Illusions

Always have been interested in visual illusions, and here a study of probably the most famous one.  These gives us insight into how our brains and seeing apparatus...

IBM Introduces Watson Works with AI
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IBM Introduces Watson Works with AI

Newly introduced:Watson WorksWork safe, work smart, and ensure the health and productivity of your people in a changing workplace  ... Watson Works is a curated...

Marty the Robot at Stop&Shop
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marty the Robot at Stop&Shop

Good view of what they are doing with robots at Stop@Shop. Mostly to map and feed video images and alerts to spills.  Will not talk to the shopper.  ImpressiveMarty...

Blogger Being Updated
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blogger Being Updated

I have been alerted that the underlying Blogging capability here will be updated by the end of June.  A quick test seems to show that no problems should occur,...
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