Do your eyes roll when you hear the term "AI" thrown out indiscriminately? Do you bring your AI Buzzword Bingo card to meetings, especially vendor sales pitches? Then we have something for you! We have placed in our library a…
It may be said that predictive maintenance is the poster child for the "analytics of things." Preventing down time and reducing maintenance costs has been a successful use of data science for a long time. But sometimes there is…
Perhaps the most common use of machine learning algorithms is to look for anomalies or unexpected events and send an alert to somebody who can act on it. See for example, this use of machine vision, which triggers real-time alerts to an…
An article in the Economist warns that, "a cabal of AI-enhanced price-bots might plausibly hatch a method of colluding that even their handlers could not understand, let alone be held responsible for." The article describes a situation in Martha's Vineyard…
Today we have Watson but in 1961 Isaac Asimov wrote a short science fiction story about the Multivac -- a supercomputer that helped humans defeat the Denebians in a war. The story is set after the successful conclusion of the…