Lots of Data and AI Helping Firefighters
Using AI/ML to help process large amounts of data allows us to tackle problems that we might not otherwise be able to work on.
2021-06-21
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Finding Legal Data
Using data scraped from the web might be convenient, but is it legal. Perhaps more importantly, is it moral? Steve has a few thoughts.
2021-04-19
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Disclosing the How
As we use more Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools in our applications, we need to understand how they work.
2021-03-08
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AI Can Improve Healthcare
One area where AI has found some traction is in the healthcare industry, where is seems to be helping improve care.
2021-02-08
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The Degradation of the Turing Test
Are computers getting smart enough to pass the Turing test or are humans getting worse at representing themselves as intelligent?
2020-10-15
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AI Data
Data is important for AI projects, but the ethics and privacy implications are complex. A new project from Microsoft aims to help users control their data and make it available for use.
2020-10-07
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The Computing Revolution
Steve reflects on some of the ideas of how Microsoft imagines the future of computing.
2020-07-27
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Smarter Design
Many of us have used PowerPoint, which has grown smarter through the use of Machine Learning.
2020-05-13
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Where AI Shines
Artificial Intelligence hasn't always worked well, but there is one place that is seems to have lots of potential.
2020-04-29
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How Much AI Do We Need?
AI seems to be invading many different parts of our life. Today Steve wonders how much we really need.
2024-12-30 (first published: 2020-04-20)
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Question of the Day
Using OPENJSON
I have some data in a table that looks like this:
BeerID BeerName brewer beerdescription 1 Becks Interbrew Beck's is a German-style pilsner beer 2 Fat Tire New Belgium Toasty malt, gentle sweetness, flash of fresh hop bitterness. 3 Mac n Jacks Mac & Jack's Brewery This beer erupts with a floral, hoppy taste 4 Alaskan Amber Alaskan Brewing Alaskan Brewing Amber Ale is an "alt" style beer 8 Kirin Kirin Brewing Kirin Ichiban is a Lager-type beerIf I run this, what is returned?
select t1.key
from openjson((select t.* FROM Beer AS t for json path)) t1 See possible answers