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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 Noisy Channel
I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that Clara knows that Sightglass Coffee is Jason’s default…
coffee spot for meetings, since that’s how x.ai works. Also, Jason did specify the Mission as a location in the initial email to Clara.Continue reading on Medium...
From The Noisy Channel
I don’t know much about Clara, but I’m quite sure x.ai
is not. My understanding is that humans only intervene when the AI’s confidence level falls below a certain threshold.Continue reading on Medium »
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon to Launch a Dragon Boat
Good piece. Amassing inventory from thousands of merchants around the world. Dragon Boat.The Zen of Retail Tech By Evan Schuman : What Amazon is doing withA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storeflix for Whole Picture Brand Insight
Late to this, but I note that the Storeflix site has been updated, with some new directions. Image based in-store analysis. Less emphasis on compliance. Some...
From insideHPC
Dona Crawford Retires from LLNL
Dona Crawford, Associate Director for Computation at NNSA’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), announced her retirement last week after 15 years ofDona...
From Putting People First
“How we used design research to launch The New York Times en Español”
A year ago Juliette Melton led a design research field project to explore how The Times could best share its journalism with the Spanish-speaking world. What the...
From Putting People First
[Paper] Understanding user motivations and drawbacks related to product repair
Understanding User Motivations and Drawbacks Related to Product Repair By Nazli Terzioglu, Dan Lockton, Clare Brass (Royal College of Arts) Conference Paper, Sustainable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Addresses Scientific Impossibility
In FastCoCreate: Superbowl ads promote science and science process." ... What: GE Theater presents a series of digital short films using science to challenge a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching AI Chitchat
Is it important to make AI more human? That was part of what we attempted in our 'big' idea. Have a piece of ad equity talk to you conversationally, and you can...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Director at NYU Langone Medical Center
square-300The NYU Langone Medical Center is seeking an HPC Director in our Job of the Week. "The Director, High Performance Computing (HPC), under the supervision...
From The Noisy Channel
"A Conversation Between Two AIs" in ART + marketing
The other day, I was introduced to Jason at Clara Labs, a startup whose product is an AI personal assistant to schedule meetings. As it so…Continue reading on Medium...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging : Pajama Squid
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a pajama squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Services and the IOT
The Internet of Things: Why Success Lies in ServicesThe Internet of Things is a fast-growing phenomenon in which formerly dumb devices get chips and sensors to...
From Schneier on Security
Fitbit Data Reveals Pregnancy
A man learned his wife was pregnant from her Fitbit data. The details of the story are weird. The man posted the data to Reddit and asked for analysis help. But...
From insideHPC
Cray Hits Record $724 Million Revenue for 2015
Today Cray announced financial results for the year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2015. The company reported total 2015 revenue of $724.7 million, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monitoring Machine Operation
Recall I mentioned Thingworx In SiliconAngle: " ... Machine-generated data returned to the agenda last week after industrial heavyweight PTC Inc. and ServiceMax...
From insideHPC
Video: Optimizing Applications for the CORI Supercomputer at NERSC
In this video from SC15, NERSC shares its experience on optimizing applications to run on the new Intel Xeon Phi processors (code name Knights Landing) that will...
From insideHPC
Share Your HPC Code in the PRACE CodeVault
Today the European PRACE infrastructure announced the PRACE CodeVault, an open repository containing various high performance computing code samples for the HPC...
From insideHPC
AWS to Aquire Italy’s NICE Software
Today NICE software in Italy announced that the company is to be acquired by Amazon Web Services, the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform...
From Schneier on Security