Decision Intelligence and the Tragedy of the Commons
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...
Category: Specific Domains
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...
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...
AI and IA: What the future holds
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.
Death by proxy
“This year, our priority is customer experience. Everything we do must connect to that.” “We’ll upgrade the network in a neighborhood when the bandwidth utilization exceeds 80%.” “I’m going to get rich, then I’ll...
Single link think
In the swirl of events, I’m often left wondering if there’s something deeper going on. Our leaders seem to be increasingly missing the bigger picture. A glimpse, here and there, into the underlying cause...
Pulling Back the Curtain on #MachineLearning Apps in #Business
Please enjoy this interview broadcast today with me and Daniel G. Faggella of TechEmergence. I touch on intelligence augmentation (IA), machine learning in vision, text, and other domains, the emerging decision intelligence ecosystem, the...
From maker space to solver space
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...
Decision intelligence for data center disaster planning
Much of the world’s information is handled in data centers: nondescript on the outside, indoors you’ll find a din of humming machine in acres of racks. If an earthquake or other natural disaster should...
