(1) Artificial Intelligence Augmentation Carter, S., & Nielsen, M. (2017). Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence: By creating user interfaces which let us work with the representations inside machine learning models, we can give people new tools for reasoning. Distill. https://distill.pub/2017/aia “In the 1950s a different vision of what computers are for began to …

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Hi All, Please help us evolve the ideas on this Opentch AI Blog website: http://opentechai.blog Thanks, Jim Spohrer (IBM USA) and Daniel Pakkala (VTT Finland)

A wide range of AI headlines in the popular press are pretty misleading…. designed for eyeballs and knee jerks, and not brains and thoughtful discussion. For example, in the headline below “without any help” … https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609141/alphago-zero-shows-machines-can-become-superhuman-without-any-help/ Here is a roadmap to “AI Solved” status based on back of the envelope calculations of amount of data …

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Dear Colleagues and Friends, I have a few exciting announcements: 1) Submit a paper to the LaLonde Service Conference – you can attend it just before the SERVSIG Conference in Paris in June 2018. 2) Get a free desk review copy of the new Essentials in Services Marketing, 3rd ed. 3) Download the paper on …

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Now organising the First Global conference on Creating Value at Leicester in the UK, May 23-24 2018 a few days before the EMAC conference in Glasgow starting May 29. In addition the Journal of Creating Value jcv.sagepub.com is proposing a special issue on the Role of Technology in creating/destroying value for November 2018. I am looking for a guest …

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Hope you can join us at PICMET’18 in the “paradise”, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii on August 19-23, 2018. The deadline for the submission of up-to 200 word abstracts is December 3, 2017. 200 word abstract deadline Dec. 3, 2017 for PICMET 2018, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii on August 19-23, 2018: http://www.picmet.org Dundar Kocaoglu ============================== Dundar F. Kocaoglu, …

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Imagination challenge: Consider quantifying and graphing the decreasing cost of digital workers due to Moore’s Law, and increasing GDP/Employees USA from 1960 to 2080 (projected). A narrow digital worker will cost about a million dollars by 2025, and require a petascale computational system.  The same digital worker will cost about a thousand dollars by 2045, …

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This week I got emails from a number of colleagues pointing me to papers, books, and startup ideas about learning, education, skills, and the future…. finally had a chance to read through some of them more carefully this Saturday morning… Thanks for the emails from Obinna Anya, Ralph Badinelli, Bill Rouse, and just a few …

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Reaction to Kurzweil’s Linguistically Fluent posting… Kurzweil Linguistically Fluent:  http://www.kurzweilai.net/ray-kurzweil-reveals-plans-for-linguistically-fluent-google-software Kurzweil’s plan is a good plan from a Google Deep Learning perspective… The plan is an extension of the capabilities of seq2seq – sequence to sequence – which is good for DL translation between languages, for example. However, no one has solved Reasoning, which is …

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CFP: Journal of Enterprise Transformation – Role of Analytics Submissions Welcome: The Role of Analytics in Enabling Enterprise Transformation Deadline: 1 September 2017 Advanced analytics – from big data, to machine learning, to cognitive computing — is poised to and, in many cases, already is transforming enterprises in fundamental ways.  Analytics is both an enabler …

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