Modern society is interconnected in ways that give our actions a power that past generations never had. A single idea, a simple gesture, or a well-placed contribution can ripple outward, amplified through networks of...
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...
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,...
In automated and augmented decision making, two types of models stand apart: intensional models, which distill rules from reality, and extensional models, which generate new data by simulating scenarios using techniques like causal AI...
As you might have heard last month on The Economist podcast, digital twins are increasingly important in a data-driven world: they are revolutionizing industries by providing a real-time, digital representation of physical objects, systems,...
As business leaders, it’s time to prepare for a paradigm shift in our understanding and application of artificial intelligence (AI). AI has been a buzzword in the tech industry for over half a century....
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...
What does software do for us? Roughly speaking, it fits into two categories: The software industry is pretty good at #1: to build good “doing” software, it’s helpful to think about how people do...
Causal inference is an important and active area of artificial intelligence research today. Indeed, no less than Turing award winner Yoshio Bengio lists causal reasoning as a top priority, as does his co-Turing award...
Every once in a while, in every career, we’re faced with a completely new situation, whether it’s choosing a startup idea, pricing a new product, deciding where to live, or selecting a company to...