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,...
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...
Please take a careful look at the above diagram (it is a simple Causal Decision Diagram (CDD), as described in Link). It is, by my understanding, one of the most important patterns we face...
As we look forward into 2017, intelligence augmentation (IA) will begin to take its rightful place alongside artificial intelligence (AI). Here’s one of my talks about this. Summary below.
Conferences are for meetings. Project teams build deliverables. Data is for data scientists. Online communities are for social contact. Until now, when a new mix is emerging. Can we solve difficult problems in a...
Last month I received an intriguing email inviting me to an event at Kimberly Wiefling’s house. I’d met Kimberly before through Jonathan Trent, as part of the work I’ve been doing to help out...
Many companies are facing the prospect of steep increases in the cost of energy in the coming years. In response, many are looking at alternative energy sources. However, navigating the transition to this new...
The goal of World Makers is to encourage people to build computer simulations of the world. This includes simulating water, weather, crops, land use policy or anything else. Models can be regional or global,...
