Software to Help Users Think
What does software do for us? Roughly speaking, it fits into two categories: The software industry is pretty good at #1: to build good “doing” software, it’s helpful to think about how people do...
Author: Lorien Pratt
An Alternate Formulation for Causal Inference Research
Causal inference is an important and active area of artificial intelligence research today. Indeed, no less than Turing award winner Yoshio Bengio lists causal reasoning as a top priority, as does his co-Turing award...
A Framework for How Data Informs Decisions
The Decision Intelligence / Data Science Integration Framework
As data storage and management becomes less expensive, many organizations are tasked with being “data-driven”. What does this mean in practice? For many, using data to inform important organizational decisions is an important goal....
If AI Doesn’t Work, then How Could it Kill Us?
Forbes reports that “most AI projects fail”; Techrepublic puts the number at 85%. How do we reconcile this reality with claims of AI as representing an “existential threat” such as those from Elon Musk...
Understanding what we mean by “Decision” in ML/AI/DI
In artificial intelligence, machine learning, decision intelligence, statistics, and science, we use the word “decision” to mean a lot of things. Let’s tease out some distinctions: Decision Type Name Question answered Primary information Source...
How to Avoid the Next AI Winter
It's time to end the AI summer/winter cycle once and for all. Five ways to get real.
The introduction of the cotton gin wasn’t accompanied by an entire genre of Hollywood movies dedicated to the gin “singularity”. Nor did we usher in Golden Age of telecommunications with blockbuster killer “phone web”...
Solving the COVID19 Decision Crisis: Moving from Data-Driven Decisions to Decision-Driven Data
Right now, getting vaccines “into arms” is the world’s greatest pandemic focus. But everything could change. Says Andy Slavitt, “The headlines we see today…[describe a] massive over-demand and under-supply [of the COVID19 vaccine]…it could...
Thinking of Starting an Enterprise AI Project?
Are you thinking: “I’ve heard that AI can provide some value to my organization?” but wondering where to start? You might be a CIO or other technical leader, looking to avoid being left in...
The #COVID19 Driver’s Seat
I caught COVID19 in March, a few weeks after breaking my arm badly enough to need surgery. I made it through, but along the way, and with the perspective afforded by a lot of...
Welcome to the Personal Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Like it or not, technology is everywhere. We have long ago passed a time where computers were relegated to men in white coats in distant rooms. It’s now in our pockets, in our faces,...
