Monthly Archives: July 2024

Dantzig’s Story

“If I had known that the problems were not homework but were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics, I probably would not have thought positively, would have become discouraged, and would never have solved them.” George Dantzig The … Continue reading

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 AI Colors Past Videos

“This is mind-blowing AI-restored footage (by HistoryColored) – from 1896 of the cities Paris and Lyon in France. You can see pedestrians and vehicles of the past in various locations across the two cities. This footage was primarily filmed and … Continue reading

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More about Decision Fairness

The question “Could we achieve fairness in our automatic decision-making?” continues to be on minds of many decision intelligence partitioners. Jacob Feldman in his new post “How decision models deal with fairness” looks at 7 real-world decision-making applications in development of … Continue reading

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Making decisions within an uncertain environment

Warren Powell provided interesting comments the the latest NY Times article “When it comes to math, AI is dumb” that states: “Early computers followed rules. AI follows probabilities. But in mathematics, there is no probable answer, only the right one”. Probabilists … Continue reading

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Does software engineering get worse?

Ulrich Junker: “Imho, software engineering gets worse in each decade. Initially, computers were programmed by punch cards and programmers needed to execute their programs on paper to anticipate issues. This was tedious, but very instructive. Next came PCs with compilers. … Continue reading

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Gartner Says AI Ready For Decision Intelligence Market

David Pidsley from Gartner wrote today: “Decision intelligence (DI) is not about driving decisions with data; it’s about deriving data from decisions to achieve better business outcomes. Decision intelligence platforms (DIPs) are software used to create solutions that support, automate … Continue reading

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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Dan Selman wrote: “The key to Knowledge Representation and Reasoning is building your ontology. It doesn’t matter if you are reasoning using a Knowledge Graph, a rules engine or a relational database — you need to do the work of … Continue reading

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5 Submissions for July’s Challenge “Smart Investment”

We’ve already received 5 submissions for Challenge July-2024 “Smart Investment“:

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The AI Summer

Ben Evans: “Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back. Every big company has done a pilot, but far fewer are in deployment. Some of this is just a matter of time. But … Continue reading

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Automatically-generated ontology?

Ron Ross: “Automatically-generated ontology? In other words, can existing AI on its own assemble a meaningful, useful ontology from some corpus for a domain of knowledge that currently has no ontology? Based on our experiments and experience, I’d say no … Continue reading

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