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Favorite Governments know all about supporting traditional economies. So why are they so poor at supporting the knowledge economy? Image from wikimedia commonsby 401(K) 2012, CC licence A “knowledge economy” is a focus for many many governments in the developed world. A knowledge economy is one “where distinctive know-how is
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Shared by Nick Milton September 9, 2020
Favorite In 1993, the Portable Document Format or the PDF was born and released to the world. Since then, companies across various industries have been creating, scanning, and storing large volumes of documents in this digital format. These documents and the content within them are vital to supporting your business.
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 8, 2020
Favorite Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. To build truly engaging conversational experiences, you need high quality speech recognition and natural language understanding that understands the intent of the customer accurately. We are excited to announce that Amazon Lex now
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Favorite Peter Drucker said that our task this century is to revolutionaise the productivity of the manual worker. Here’s how KM can help. Assembly Line, from Library and Archives Canada, via Flickr Peter Drucker famously said that ‘the most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the
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Favorite How many times do people miss knowledge because they don’t know it exists, or can’t find it? Image from wikimedia commonsattribution Dg-505, CC licence My guess is that this happens all the time. Someone creates a great knowledge resource, but others don’t know about it, and even if they
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Favorite It is tempting, when starting KM in your organisation, to set up a Knowledge Management community of practice as a way to demonstrate the value of communities. I suggest this may be a mistake. Of course knowledge management will need a community of practice, but there are three reasons
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Favorite Amazon Polly turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create voice-enabled applications. We’re excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asian Pacific (Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (London) Regions. You can now synthesize over 14 NTTS voices in these
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Favorite One the enduring challenges in Knowledge Management is defining effective metrics to measure its value. A promising metric which may fill the gap is the Frequency of Lost Knowledge (FOLK) and it’s partner the Cost of Lost Knowledge (COLK). Image from wikimedia commons In safety management, they talk about
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Favorite Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Neural machine translation is a form of language translation automation that uses deep learning models to deliver more accurate and natural-sounding translation than traditional statistical and rule-based translation algorithms. The translation service is
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Favorite Today, in partnership with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), we are announcing a National AI Research Institute for Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration. Google will provide $5 million in funding to support the Institute. We will also offer AI expertise, research collaborations, and Cloud support for Institute researchers and educators
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Shared by Google AI Technology September 2, 2020