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Using AI methods to Address the most Current Problems
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Using AI methods to Address the most Current Problems

Examples of AI augmented problem solving:Benevolent AIBecause it matters.Benevolent AI: Accelerating the journey from data to medicine.Our work on Covid-19.PRESS...

Automating AI By Evolution
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Automating AI By Evolution

Akin to genetic algorithms, which we experimented with, but found that the combinatorics (very large number of solutions)  of real world problems were too large...

Does Amazon Sell too Well?
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Does Amazon Sell too Well?

Noted exactly this recently, ordered a couple of common things, seemingly not at all virus related, and I got a message back saying they were unavailable.  Never...

Cybersecurity Risk
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Cybersecurity Risk

Advancing for some time now,  but at least we should be able to assemble defenses for the inevitable?Why Is Cybersecurity Not a Human-Scale Problem Anymore?By Gaurav...

Learning at Home with Google Earth
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Learning at Home with Google Earth

I was astounded by Google Earth from the very beginning, very precise and visual interactive geography.  Here some hints from Google about how to use it effectively...

Kroger CEO Talks Now and Next
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Kroger CEO Talks Now and Next

Good overall view by a major player.Kroger CEO talks about booming sales, supply chain advantage, shopping habits in BizJournalSales are soaring at Kroger Co.,McMullen...

AI Adoption for Retailers
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AI Adoption for Retailers

Have always found that major retailers are ahead in finding and using new tech.What are the biggest barriers to AI adoption for retailers?   by Tom Ryan in Retailwire...

Using Kroger Pickup Service
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Using Kroger Pickup Service

My friend Walter Riker looks at Kroger Grocery Pickup,Our First Attempt at The Kroger Pickup Service - We Like What We Found.This past weekend my wife and I used...

Seeking Better Chatbots with Contextual Memory
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Seeking Better Chatbots with Contextual Memory

Another example of looking at memory to establish context understanding for a chatbotDeploying more conversational chatbotsStartup Posh has created chatbots that...

Cyber Warranties
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Cyber Warranties

Warranties for data?Cyber Warranties: Market Fix or Marketing Trick?By Daniel W. Woods, Tyler MooreCommunications of the ACM, April 2020, Vol. 63 No. 4, Pages 104...

One Way Aisles
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One Way Aisles

Will be seeing how this will be implemented at local grocery retail.UPDATE: Walmart, Kroger, Hy-Vee, Giant go with one-way aisles to combat coronavirusMeijer, BJ...

Building Private 5G Networks
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Building Private 5G Networks

Assume we will be getting useful information from these tests.German Industrial Firms to Build Private 5G NetworksThe Wall Street JournalCatherine StuppAutomakers...

Private Computation of Aggregate Statistics
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Private Computation of Aggregate Statistics

Better privacy from aggregate statistics  (Technical)Prio: Private, Robust, and Scalable Computation of Aggregate StatisticsBy Henry Corrigan-Gibbs and Dan Boneh...

Apple, Google to Harness Phones for Virus Infection Tracking
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Apple, Google to Harness Phones for Virus Infection Tracking

Much going around about this now.  Just taking a closer look.  Can tech harvest the right data to leverage a solution? Privacy pushback?  More to follow.Apple,Associated...

Build a Network of Teams
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Build a Network of Teams

We did this by constructing teams that included specific skills, making sure they could communicate. Also document results and directions.To weather a crisis, build...

Google AI Making Decisions on the Fly
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Google AI Making Decisions on the Fly

Intriguing direction making decisions like we often do,  in a series to address changes in contextGoogle’s AI enables robots to make decisions on the fly  By Kyle...

The Effect of Privacy Notices
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The Effect of Privacy Notices

An example of behavioral response to alerting consumers,The Bulletproof Glass Effect: When Privacy Notices Backfireby Aaron R. Brough, David A. Norton, and Leslie...

Grocery Stores use Robots During Pandemic
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Grocery Stores use Robots During Pandemic

No unexpected, certainly many retailers will be investigating and testing the idea.Grocery Stores Turn to Robots During the CoronavirusCNN BusinessNathaniel Meyersohn...

Nuro Autonomous Delivery Vehicle Approved for Test
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Nuro Autonomous Delivery Vehicle Approved for Test

The intriguingly designed robotic grocery delivery system takes a step forward in testing.   According to the article these are vehicles without direct human control...

Contact Tracing Tracking: Privacy vs Valuable Data
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Contact Tracing Tracking: Privacy vs Valuable Data

More details on this, and how some descriptions about how it might proceed.   Seems it has many positives for gathering information about the progress of the virus...
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