The Art in Artificial Intelligence - Part 2

Part of the reason we decided to explore this topic on Technovation Talks was the claim made earlier this Summer that an AI had finally passed the Turing Test. So what's the Turing Test? It was a very basically described metric by which any sort of true machine intelligence might be assessed or otherwise verified. Here's the basic premise of the test - if an AI can engage in normal conversation with multiple human participants without the humans...

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The "Art" in Artificial Intelligence - Part 1

Today, we are going to launch a problem-solving exercise on what might be the single most complex topic in Information Science - Artificial Intelligence. The goal here is not to provide any sort of comprehensive survey of current theory or practice; rather our journey begins with the stark realization of how little we've achieved in the field since the term was first coined 58 years ago. This is a problem statement and problem resolution exercise...

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The Next Generation of American Leadership - JSA

A worthy cause indeed, invest in the future - support the next generation of American Leadership, right here in Ohio...Junior State of America - Ohio River Valley Scholarship f...

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How to Create an Enterprise Data Strategy

I work as an IT Architect. One of the more interesting things I get asked to do on occasion is to create Strategies in particular technology areas. This represents the "high-level" side of the typical IT Architecture duties one tends to run into (if you're interested in more IT Architecture related topics check my new blog here - The IT Architecture Journal). A very popular strategic focus across industry lately is Data Strategy. In this post, I...

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How IT Hype Inhibits Technology Innovation

There are many unique characteristics connected to the IT industry, some of them are more associated with pure-play IT vendors but others seem to pervade most all organizations which utilize IT in any significant manner. One of the strangest of these characteristics is the obsession with buzzword Hype. For most people this is symbolized through the development and dissemination of Gartner's famous Hype Cycle diagrams. However, the Hype obsession...

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