What should we do about “bad” AI?
OpenAI has built an AI that it suspects may be too dangerous to release to the public. What should it do? Sorry to say, but the technology train is hard to stop. Whatever OpenAI...
Author: Lorien Pratt
Big Decisions, Small Data: Eight Key Principles
Conquering the most important problems faced by complex organizations often requires great models, not “big data”: in many situations, better decisions can be made with imperfect or incomplete data. As storage and processing costs...
Machine Learning Software Engineering: Top Five Best Practices
Back in the day when coding was new, as soon as software team was hired for a project, management would command: “code”. No design, no planning, no requirements, no oversight, nor QA. After too...
Machine Learning Classic Mistakes, Best Practices, and Epic Fails: experiences from over 30 years of applied projects
I and my teams have been delivering machine learning projects for about three decades, from work on the Human Genome Project in the 1980s through sensor fusion for the Department of Energy for hazardous...
Decision modeling together, to save the world
Organizations like the Millennium Project, certain government agencies, companies from the smallest to large transnationals, and the United Nations have recognized that, in a complex world, the risk of decisions that lead to unintended...
Link | How Decision Intelligence Connects Data, Actions, and Outcomes for a Better World
Why aren’t the most powerful technologies being used to solve the most important problems: hunger, poverty, conflict, employment, democracy, disease, and new complexities faced by businesses? What’s missing? A solution is crystallizing worldwide. Corporations,...
Shifting at the Edge: Gandhi, AI, and Beyond
Gandhi predicted that both capitalism and communism would eventually fail.[1] He proposed a third system, called trusteeship,[2] which held tremendous promise. Yet today’s world is much more complex than the one that Gandhi inhabited, and so we...
Senate Intelligence Briefing features AI and Decision Advantage
Today’s senate intelligence meeting is probably the most important two-hour video you should make time to watch this week, especially if you are interested in the intersection between AI, DI, and national security. Also...
Has media reached a reality/complexity tipping point?
A landmark paper appeared last December in the National Science Review (summary). It describes the complex interdependencies between climate, consumption, population, demographics, inequality, economic growth, migration, and more. Written by an interdisciplinary team of...
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