Monthly Archives: August 2023

Challenge Aug-2023 “Soldier Payment Rules”

Posted on August 23, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We decided to bring back Challenge “Soldier Payment Rules” which in 2017 received only two solutions. This is a good chance to demonstrate the expressive power of your DMN or other decision management tools. The proper decision model is supposed to assemble a … Continue reading →

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Knowing-How and Knowing-That

Posted on August 22, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Dr. Saba discusses our use of the phrase ‘I know’ in our everyday linguistic communication and points to the critical difference in the two major uses of the phrase. His point is that ML, as it is practiced today, is … Continue reading →

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AI bots beat CAPTCHA and humans

Posted on August 22, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Now, a research paper (pdf) published last month that has yet to be peer reviewed indicates that AI-automated attacks on various CAPTCHA schemes have been successful. The study, conducted by a group of researchers, showed that AI bots are now better than humans at decoding … Continue reading →

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Generative AI on the Peak of the 2023 Hype Cycle

Posted on August 17, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

On Aug 16, 2023 Gartner published a press release Gartner Places Generative AI on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies: “While all eyes are on AI right now, CIOs and CTOs must also … Continue reading →

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Big Decision Tables

Posted on August 15, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Decision tables are the most popular decision modeling constructs but they have a tendency to grow with time or to use huge arrays of data from the very beginning. When decision tables have tens and even hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading →

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Calendar Arithmetic in DMN

Posted on August 15, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Often in decision models you need to calculate a date or duration.  For example, an application must be submitted within 90 days of some event, or a vaccine should not be administered within 120 days of a previous dose.  DMN … Continue reading →

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Google’s latest achievement in quantum computing

Posted on August 13, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Google researchers have introduced a new quantum computer that can perform calculations in a short time of just 6.18 seconds. In contrast, even the most powerful supercomputers in the world would require 47.2 years to complete the same task. However, this … Continue reading →

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YouTube to Auto-generate Video Summaries

Posted on August 8, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

YouTube is running a new test to auto-generate video summaries with the use of AI. As noted on the support page, the summaries have begun appearing on the watch and search pages, but are only available for a limited number of English-language … Continue reading →

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Paying for training data?

Posted on August 1, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“There are already a bunch of lawsuits from people who think their work may be in LLM training data, and now IAC and a group of publishers are apparently thinking about demanding some very large ($bn) payments. Unlike the ‘link … Continue reading →

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