Most conversations between decision makers and data professionals begin back-to-front If you’re a decision maker who wants to make the best use of data and other information resources, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to...
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....
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...
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...
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”...
Have you ever wondered just how many decisions you will make today? In your lifetime? Though difficult to measure, researchers have estimated that the average adult makes anywhere from a few thousand to 35,000...
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...
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...
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,...
I wrote previously about the emergence of applied, agile, assured AI. This post is a deeper dive, explaining the diagram, below, in more detail: Over the years, computer science has evolved through four eras,...
