Monthly Archives: January 2025

Warren Powell about DeepSeek

Warren Powell just posted “The emergence of DeepSeek“: How could the Chinese do this so quickly? Because the technology is not that hard… I am not minimizing what OpenAI and the other LLM developers have created, but the core technology … Continue reading

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Creating a Simple Knowledge Graph (and a Pizza) with AI

Kurt Cagle just shared his experience of using an LLM tool for building a knowledge graph. He asked DeepSeek to “Generate a list of all of the object types that may be relevant to running a pizza shop” and after … Continue reading

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Don’t Centralize AI agents under IT 

David Pidsley from Gartner posted on LinkedIn: “Centralizing AI agent management under IT could stifle adaptive governance and innovation by focusing too much on operational “how” rather than strategic “why.” Instead, decision-making authority should remain distributed across business units, ensuring … Continue reading

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Bob Kowalski on What is AI?

In 2017 Prof. Bob Kowalski, the famous expert in Logical AI including Prolog, presented “Logic and AI” at the joint session of DecisionCAMP and RuleML+RR. It is interesting to hear his recent thoughts about today’s symbolic and sub-symbolic AIs – … Continue reading

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Turning insurance contracts into code

Sam Burrett posted today: Insurance policies are a nightmare for most consumers. It’s hard to know what’s covered and what isn’t. Could AI help? The Stanford CodeX team tested GPT4o’s ability to turn an insurance policy into code, which could … Continue reading

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Will the use of DI jump to 60% in 2025?

“Gartner predicts by the end of this year, 60% of analytics and business intelligence (ABI) platforms will claim to enable decision intelligence (DI), but only 10% will have a decision-centric UI to model and track decisions.” Link

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Combining AI and OR/MS for Better Trustworthy Decision Making

An interesting event “Bridge: AI+ORMS” will occur on February 25-26, 2025 as a part of the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Philadelphia USA. “The goal of this bridge program is to unite AI and OR/MS practitioners and … Continue reading

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Isaac Asimov and GenAI

Here is the post of Rafael Brown: Isaac Asimov: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and … Continue reading

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Warren Powell about “Agentic AI”

The latest AI buzz word: “Agentic AI”. “AI” has become such an empty phrase, and adding adjectives such as “agentic” simply adds more jargon. When referring to software, can we please use terms that clearly describe products that businesses can … Continue reading

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The first NoCode tool

Stéphane Dalbera wrote: “In an era where almost everything is marketed as a disruptive evolution and incredible innovation, I thought it would be worthwhile to revisit a truly game-changing piece of software.” His post is devoted to 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐜. Nowadays, DMN-like … Continue reading

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