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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon AI, Non-Transfer, & Future Cross-Correlation Issues

AWS AI Improves Its Accuracy According to Amazon An interesting bit of jargon creeps into “On Benchmark Data Set, Question-Answering System Halves Error Rate.” That word is “transfer.” Amazon, it seems, is trying to figure out how to reuse data, threshold settings, and workflow outputs. Think about IBM’s DeepBlue defeat of Gary Kasparov in 1996 …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Loses Another Big One to Microsoft

Amazon: Some Trouble Down Under? DarkCyber noted “Case Study: Why the Australian Electoral Commission Migrated to Microsoft Azure.” On the surface, the write up is another PR output. When considered in terms of the competition between Amazon and Microsoft for juicy non commercial jobs, the article provides a check list of what’s lacking in Amazon …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Google Manipulating Search…Again

Google: Making Friends Everywhere Would it surprise anyone if Google alters search results to favor itself? Nope! Reuters explains that Europe is once again fed up with Google’s shenanigans, so “Axel Springer Unit, Others Say Google Still Playing Unfairly, Want EU To Act.” Axel Springer owns the shopping comparison Web site Idealo and it has …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Openness is Search — Does Money Displace Ethics & Efficacy?

A Call for Openness in Search “Opening Up Search Is an Ethical Imperative” presents an argument for opening up search. “Opening up” appears to mean that Google’s grip on ad supported search and retrieval is broken. The write up states: LONG POST EVERY WORD WORTH READING Advertisers go where the eyeballs are. Money can alter …

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