The LOAR is in full effect, when it comes to AI, and tech leaders are racing to the finish line of interesting and cool ways to bring everyday AI to consumers. Apple recently filed a „method for automatically activating a camera application based on detecting an intent to capture a photograph or video“ with the …
Warren Enskat / Weekly AI Summary (WE-WAIS) / 1-21-2019 Some of the AI developments and thoughts from this past week: – Israel’s Innovation Authority … from startup nation to smart-up nation via AI: The State of Israel is facing significant challenges in the field of innovation during a period in which artificial intelligence is establishing itself …
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Dieter Fox got his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bonn, the former sleepy German capital, in the late 1980s. He then made his way way West as Director for Intel’s Seattle Lab and roughly for the last 20 years he has been a Professor of Robotics at the University of Washington (UW). …
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Warren Enskat / Weekly AI Summary (WE-WAIS) / 1-6-2019 Some of the AI developments and thoughts from this past week: – JP Morgan launches all mobile bank, Finn by Chase, with analytics/strategy exec at the helm: JP Morgan has been busy with ML, AI and data science hires. A few months ago they took Google’s Head …
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Warren Enskat / Weekly AI Summary (WE-WAIS) / 1-1-2019 Some of the AI developments and thoughts from this past week: – AI/Digital Startups within the US Government and the Hunt for AI Talent: recruit top designers, engineers, product managers, and digital policy experts and then pair these digital experts with the nation’s leading civil servants …
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Happy New Year… JP Morgan Chase in December 2018 launched “Finn by Chase”, its all mobile bank, which lets customers: Set autosave rules to set aside cash for short-, mid-, or long-term savings goals Track spending with Finn’s insights and trends, with colorful breakdowns Rate purchases with smileys and emoticons to see what they enjoy(ed) …
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Warren Enskat / Weekly AI Summary (WE-WAIS) / 12-23-2018 Some of the AI developments and thoughts from this past week: – The AI Index 2018 … artificial intelligence outpaces computer science in research; Europe is the largest publisher of AI papers, followed by China and the US; ML and probabilistic reasoning top the list of …
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A great in-depth read in the NYT on Donald Ervin Knuth, “the Yoda of Silicon Valley”, as he celebrates his 80th birthday. His bible of tech, “the Art of Computer Programming”, also known as TAOCP, as in Tao, for now consists of four volumes, each ranging from 750 to 1000 pages. Bill Gates famously wrote …
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The 94-page AI Index 2018 tries to be a comprehensive resource of data & analysis for professionals and the general public to learn about artificial intelligence. Its steering committee includes top names from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, McKinsey, SRI International, Open AI, and Partnership on AI. Some of the highlights for 2018 are below: – Artificial …
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How does the US army deal with Artificial Intelligence? Two years ago it set up the “Rapid Capabilities Office”, RCO, to deal with emerging technologies and to focus on top modernization priorities, especially AI. As of November 2018, the RCO is led by COL John Eggert as the acting Executive Director. Eggert enlisted in the …
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