Monthly Archives: December 2024

Happy 2025!

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Agentic AI for Decision-Making

“To build truly impactful AI, we must embrace Augmented Intelligence—keeping the Human in the Loop to ensure explainability, trust, and accountability.One critical step: creating intermediate, human-consumable artifacts (think: models) that can be validated and verified. These are essential milestones on … Continue reading

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Christmas Word Search

We wish all our readers a very Happy Holiday Season! We’ve just published a simple holiday Challenge for Jan-2025 in which you need to find how many times the word “XMAS” appears in the grid, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, written … Continue reading

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“AI will place the law in the hands of everyone”

Richard Susskind: “I argued that short-term thinking is the gravest danger facing lawyers when it comes to AI. I suggested that the future of legal service will not simply be a turbo-charged version of today’s legal working practices. Instead, I … Continue reading

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Decision Optimization and Generative AI

There are two new articles devoted to this topic: “Optimization and Generative AI” by Alex Fleischer “LLM-ify me – Optimization edition” by Richard Oberdieck

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AI in Commercial Context

Harley Davis: “At least in industrial/commercial contexts, we are usually interested in solving a series of more specific problems rather than having one big AI that can do anything. And those specific problems always involve interfacing with some existing processes, … Continue reading

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Challenge Dec-2024: Pricing Policy

Dec-2024 Challenge deals with an order pricing policy that depends on a number of different units, product types (Standard or Premium), country of origin, etc. A seller uses a mixed bracket volume and cost policy for orders with multiple units: … Continue reading

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Agentic AI with Self-Reflection

Armand Ruiz, VP of Product – AI Platform @IBM, posted “The future of AI is Agentic” with this architectural schema that looks promising for business decision-making with ongoing improvements:

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W2 job vs Your own company

There is an interesting discussion on LinkedIn: “Exactly 1 year ago today I left my high-paying W2 job to start my own company. Here are 9 reasons why you should NOT do the same thing.” Link

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Focus on Learning Not On Knowledge

Peter Voss lists “Focus on Knowledge, Not Learning” as one of The 7 Deadly Sins of AGI Design: “There’s a common misconception that knowledge is a good measure of intelligence. This is not so. An encyclopedia has a lot of knowledge but … Continue reading

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