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Robot Prototype for Microsurgery
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Robot Prototype for Microsurgery

Seems a considerable advance.   Full and more technical article at the linkRobot Prototype Shows Promise for Microsurgery on Eyes, AneurysmsBy Vanderbilt School...

Drones and Facial Recognition in the UK
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drones and Facial Recognition in the UK

Another example that will likely be criticized as being easy to mis-use.Police to Use Facial Recognition Drones to Help Find the MissingBBC News (U.K.)By Ken Macdonald...

Malevolence of the Use of Evolving Images
From The Eponymous Pickle

Malevolence of the Use of Evolving Images

Good-non technical view of the current state of creating and evolving images. Somewhat like the 'photo shopping' enigma still going on, but more subtle and automated...

Vint Cerf Takes a Driverless Ride
From The Eponymous Pickle

Vint Cerf Takes a Driverless Ride

Vint Cerf takes a hands-free, unaccompanied drive in a Waymo and muses the technology.A Hands-Free Ride   By Vinton G. CerfCommunications of the ACM, December 2019...

Our Relationship with AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Our Relationship with AI

Wired Launches a new podcast: Sleepwalkers, in the post below with links to it. Will be listening to and following. Posting comments here.Rethinking Our Relationship...

Robots Supporting Teachers in Class Sessions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Supporting Teachers in Class Sessions

Assistance is important, especially with respect to repetitive tasks that need strong context.Robots can learn how to support teachers in class sessionsby University...

Fighting Cybercrime in the Cloud
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fighting Cybercrime in the Cloud

Evidence for Cybercrime in the cloud.Machine Learning Advances Tool to Fight Cybercrime in the CloudPurdue University NewsBy Chris AdamPurdue University researchers...

Designing Games
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing Games

There is value in having game developers aid in designing interaction with business problems.The Sims’ Creator Shares His Secrets“If I was going to teach somebody...

Predicting Humor for Engagement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting Humor for Engagement

Humor as engagement.     Can it be delivered artificially, as a strong component of story?It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh    |by Dina Gerdeman...

Benchmarking a Big Quantum Computer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Benchmarking a Big Quantum Computer

This article ultimately gets very technical, but attracted me because the bit size starts to get interesting for real problems.   The abstract and intro part are...

Novel Mobile Mapping Algorithm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Novel Mobile Mapping Algorithm

As I read this, it too could have been used usefully for our forestry application, since we had large scale databases of measurements based on location contexts...

Preventing Theft By Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Preventing Theft By Drones

Brief,  intriguing piece in Coindesk, a blockchain App of the tracking type.   Seems a very simple solution regarding altitude and IOT.    No indication anything...

AI Storytelling Companies
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Storytelling Companies

Not quite all the same thing, but interesting spins on the idea.  Like the idea of a story, like a contract, that could adapt readily to an audience and context...

Harvard Robobee Powered by Soft Muscles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Harvard Robobee Powered by Soft Muscles

Back to the interest in the tiny drone.RoboBee Powered by Soft MusclesHarvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesLeah BurrowsResearchers...

Talk on Explainable AI
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Talk on Explainable AI

All analytics should be explainable in business context.  And the person responsible for that part of the business should also be able to explain how and why it...

Berners-Lee Launches a Contract for the Web
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Berners-Lee Launches a Contract for the Web

Admirable, but will it work?  As one of the inventors of the Web, he will be heard, but will the contract be accepted, followed?Tim Berners-Lee Launches a 'Contract...

Google G Suite Adds AI in Beta
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Google G Suite Adds AI in Beta

Always  looking for ways to integrate smarts into enterprise business designs and tasks,  so this is worth looking at.  Looks like its taking a step ahead of Amazon...

From the Possible Minds Conference
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From the Possible Minds Conference

From 'The Edge', a huge amount of information on AI and Minds.  Below an intro, full text and video at the link.The Possible Minds ConferenceI am puzzled by the...

New Alexa Emotions
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New Alexa Emotions

New complexity in voice expression is announced for Alexa.  Need to see this in useful context, but intrigued by possibilities.Use New Alexa Emotions and Speaking...

Stopping RoboCalls
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stopping RoboCalls

A very common annoyance for many of us.  A new means to address the problem.How Your Phone Company Aims to Stop Robocalls in Spectrum IEEEThe STIR/SHAKEN protocol...
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