Guest Post: The Power of Compact World Models (CWMs) for Agentic AI
We’re hearing a lot about Agentic AI these days. If you work in an office and do most of your work on a computer, chances are that someone will soon offer you an AI...
Category: Specific Domains
Considerations in the Applicability of Decision Intelligence (DI) to both Strategic and Tactical Decisions
At the time of writing this post, we were in the midst of teaching Getting Started with Decision Intelligence, in our 9th cohort. A student asked today, “What’s the applicability of DI to different...
Guest Post: The Unnecessary Tragedy of Hurricane Helene
As of October 23 2024, 224 people had died from Hurricane Helene, and 24 were still missing. And, although some amount of tragedy is unavoidable in any natural disaster as ferocious as this storm,...
ChatGPT Does Decision Intelligence for Net Zero
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve probably heard about ChatGPT from OpenAI, which answers your text questions in the style of your choosing (including rock songs, poetry, and screenplays), based on language...
Guest Post: The Shape of Big Lies
Social media bombards us with big lies. The juicier and click-baitier, the better, and the happier are advertisers. Unfortunately, disinformation is often plausible as well as attractive. By promising to right an imaginary or...
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...
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...
Guest Post: Battle of the Curves: The Coronavirus Versus Human Decision Making (Part 3)
In Part 2 of this article, I described why it’s particularly challenging for people to take the right actions in the face of the coronavirus. Now I’ll show you the solution. The solution “…The...
Guest Post: Battle of the Curves: The Coronavirus Versus Human Decision Making (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article, I described the general problem of making decisions in complex environments, along with a decision I made in the face of the coronavirus. Here, I’ll show you how...
Guest Post: Battle of the Curves: The Coronavirus Versus Human Decision Making (Part 1)
“Democracy depends on an informed populace. Yet the world is now a complex system, so we must democratize technology that helps us make good decisions, despite the complexity. This is now possible, and just...
