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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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tailored Video Messaging
We experimented with many kinds of interactive and tailored messaging in our retail store lab:Can tailored digital video messaging transform grocery end-caps?by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Intelligence for the Chef
Voice control moves to a somewhat obscure cooking tool. A Sous Vide Machine. Still mostly in the realm of a professional Chef. Remarkable to me how voice...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee Explores Use of Algorithms in Decision Making
The UK-based Royal Statistical Society expressed support for the ACM U.S. Public Policy Council Statement on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability in its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Service Chatbots Across Industry
Customer serrvice is an obvious application. Starting with access to FAQ, then going to a full interactive conversation prompted by analysis of customer data and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG and Analytics
Consumer Package Goods (CPG) companies have been working these problems for a long time.How analytics is helping CPG companies drive growthPosted by Ashish Sukhadeve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Ecosystem
Brought to my attention, the Innovation Ecosystem.What is the Innovation EcosystemWe believe passionately in the power of ecosystems to achieve outcomes not possible...
From The Noisy Channel
Thanks Bart. I haven’t read it, but I’ll take a look. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Bart. I haven’t read it, but I’ll take a look. Thanks for sharing.
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for PBS Works User Group in Las Vegas
Altair has posted the Agenda for the PBS Works User Group May 22-25 in Las Vegas. This four-day event (including 2 days of user presentations, round table discussions...
From insideHPC
High Performance Data Analysis (HPDA): HPC – Big Data Convergence
"To date, most data-intensive HPC jobs in the government, academic and industrial sectors have involved the modeling and simulation of complex physical and quasi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats a Blockchain?
In Computerworld, a good, nontechnical view of Blockchains, what they are, their expected business value, and examples of the companies using and developing them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa's New Speech Synthesis Language
I was just testing an App today, and was thinking about how her voice sounded natural but robotic ... Now expect to see this to change as developers create applications...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Live Squid Washes up on North Carolina Beach
A "mysterious squid" -- big and red -- washed up on a beach in Carteret County, North Carolina. Someone found it, still alive, and set it back in the water after...
From The Noisy Channel
Query Segmentation
The previous two posts focused on using query rewriting to increase recall. We can also use query rewriting to increase precision — that is, to reduce the number...
From Schneier on Security
Jumping Airgaps with a Laser and a Scanner
Researchers have configured two computers to talk to each other using a laser and a scanner. Scanners work by detecting reflected light on their glass pane. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu's Little Fish Virtual Assistant
Recall we previously looked at reports on this, aka Duer. Another platform for Conversational Commerce? In a very large market to experiment with.Baidu's 'Little...
From Putting People First
Global study: Leading companies bet on customer experience
A new report from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services reveals that customer experience is vital for business success, and establishes social media as theGlobal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Isolation Forests for Anomaly Detection
New to me, but seems to be worthwhile to run, at least in parallel to other techniques for now. Potentially good for smaller datasets. Anomaly Detection UsingOne...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will Conversational Commerce be Next?
Conversational Commerce. First I heard that specific phrase. Consider the posts made in this blog in just the past few days as evidence, by very big players.In...
From insideHPC
Overview of the Exascale Additive Manufacturing Project
John Turner from ORNL presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Fully exploiting future exascale architectures will require a rethinking of the algorithms used...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog