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NY Times: Machines May Outsmart Man

Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society’s workload, from waging war to chatting with customers on the phone. Their concern is that further advances could create profound social disruptions and even have dangerous consequences.

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Datamining in SQL Server: Customer Profiling

The 2n tutorial in the beginner’s series on datamining in SQL Server. In this tutorial, clients are classified into logical clusters by means of a classification algorithm. The method used in this tutorial for creating customer profiles is called “unsupervised clustering”.

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Business Intelligence in 2020?

Let’s get and think out-of-the-box. We know the classical stuff: OLTP, ETL, DW, DM, OLAP.
What about BI in 2020? What do you consider to be the new frontiers in Decision Support and Business Intelligence? RAM or In-Memory processing, Integration of BI and Search Engines, Fusion of Structured and Non-Structured information, Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Algorithms, Management Automation and Predictive Analytics, Real-time Datawarehousing or Closed-Loop BI? Please don’t limit yourself to one aspect of the discussion. Anything goes!

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Join the discussion on BI Trends on the DW and BI Architects user group

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Bill Joy, Founder of Sun Microsystems

“The future doesn’t need us.”

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Fuzzy Logic #4

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Henri Bergson on the Human Mind

“Dans ce corps démesurément grossi, l’âme reste ce qu’elle était, trop petite maintenant pour le remplir, trop faible pour le diriger. D’où le vide entre lui et elle. D’où les redoutables problèmes sociaux, politiques, internationaux, qui sont autant de définitions de ce vide et qui, pour le combler, provoquent aujourd’hui tant d’efforts désordonnés et inefficaces : il y faudrait de nouvelles réserves d’énergie potentielle, cette fois morale. Ne nous bornons donc pas à dire, comme nous le faisions plus haut, que la mystique appelle la mécanique. Ajoutons que le corps agrandi attend un supplément d’âme, et que la mécanique exigerait une mystique.”

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Do we control AI?

Some people think that we control AI or that we can develop it in a controlled manner… The opposite is the case.

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Fuzzy Logic #3

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The Webbot Project

The Web Bot Project, developed in the late 1990’s, was created to assist in making stock market predictions. The technology uses a system of spiders or webbots to crawl the Internet and search for keywords, much like a search engine does. When a keyword is located, the bot program takes a snapshot of the text preceding and following the keyword. This snapshot of text is sent to a central location where it is then filtered, integrated and analysed with intelligent algorithms. The Webbot project is aimed at tapping into the “collective unconscious” of mankind by means of intelligence-based processing. It’s therefore an interesting experiment for those interested in Jungian psychologie and in AI.

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Fuzzy Logic #2

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