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A Chat about Chatbots
Shopping online? Not sure what to buy for someone? During the Christmas season, Nordstrom’s had an online chatbot that would help. The chatbot asked a series of questions about who you were shopping...
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Go Shopping at Amazon Go
Walk into the new Amazon Go store in Seattle, pick up what you want and walk out. That’s it. No waiting in line to check out and no shoplifting charges. A new payment solution. The new payment solution...
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Internet Companies Try Different Tactics to Fight Spread of Fake News
Pope Francis endorsed Donald Trump. A leaked email showed Hillary Clinton sold weapons to ISIS. And a legal revelation suggested that candidate Clinton was disqualified from holding federal office....
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Domo Arigato Mayfield’s Roboto
The Jetsons, a television cartoon that aired in the 1960s and was revived some 20 years later, gave viewers a peak at a technology-rich future. When people weren’t “driving” flying cars, they got...
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We Are All Going to Fall in Love with Robots
Alexa, the voice of Amazon’s AI personal assistant, has received 250,000 proposals of marriage to date. It does not appear she has said yes, but anything could happen in the exciting world of robots...
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The New Field of Translational Medicine
Translational Medicine is a new field in the biosciences that is working to improve global health through translating preclinical science into workable solutions for populations and individual...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Live Customer Service?
Artificial intelligence, or “AI,” certainly has vast potential to replace live customer-service representatives, but how close are we to really speaking with smart AI-controlled call centers and hosts?...
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Be Still My Heart: The Fascinating Future World of Transparent Electronic...
The dress works like this: it’s made of efoil, a new textile that is engineered to change opacity, and connected to an integral heartbeat monitor. When the wearer’s heartbeat accelerates, such as with...
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Ambient Intelligence Technology: The Smart Office
The Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environment is one that is aware of and responsive to human work and needs, and the technology is the hardware and software that runs those systems. In its simplest...
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Platform Cooperativism Marries 19th Century Co-op Models with 21st Century Tech
What does it mean to work toward a sustainable economy? Is a sustainable economy a local idea in a global world? In the broadest sense, a sustainable economy is one which is economically viable,...
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How Robotics Can Drastically Improve the Healthcare Industry
Will robotics change the face of the healthcare industry? According to The Guardian, several robots have been introduced in various parts of the world to assist the elderly. For example, RoboCoach,...
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Behavioral Variables in Healthcare Research
Big data and machine learning platforms are in a unique position to analyze one of the most challenging aspects of medical research: behavioral variables that are not reported accurately by common...
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Can AIs Create Art? Could they be compared with Great Apes?
Artificial neural networks are hard at work across the world writing sonnets, playing melodies, making art. Is it really art? Koko and Michael, two Great Apes who were taught sign language, both...
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Predictive Analytics: Looking into a Crystal Ball Full of Data
Predictive Analytics is the branch of machine learning that is putting all the data to work. It takes large data sets and uses mathematical algorithms to form predictive models. Then statistical...
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What Will Banking Look Like in 2067?
What will the financial world look like in fifty years? Everything will change, except human nature. (Or, nothing will really change.) The financial and banking sector is embracing the new...
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Saving Us From Ourselves? How AIs Could Tackle the Elephant in the Doctor’s...
Taking an extra dose of Simvastatin, and then ordering double cheese on the pizza–no, screw it, let’s get double pepperoni, too! This may not be the recommended usage of statin drugs for cholesterol,...
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The Algorithmic Justice League: Inclusive Coding and Algorithmic Bias
Poet of Code Joy Buolamwini is an MIT researcher, a Rhodes Scholar with a beautiful face, and she had to wonder what was going on when the facial recognition software she was using to teach robots...
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Milking for Medications: Transgenic Animals and the Future of Pharming
Farming for pharmaceuticals is a growing field of transgenic science. A number of human proteins of biological significance need to be developed in a mammal; the genetic transfer of human DNA to animal...
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Smart Homes: Guidelines for Parents of Teenagers
Smart home networking and technologies are being rapidly developed in two main areas: energy and environmental controls, and security. When smart homes were first developed, they used hard-wired...
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Human-In-The-Loop Learning Increases Robotic Accuracy
Human-in-the-loop learning allows machines to ask questions when they are not sure about an answer. The answer given by a human is then integrated into the system to make the machine smarter. At the...
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