Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Combining Symbolic AI with LLMs

Posted on July 22, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Dr. Walid Saba makes a compelling case for combining #symbolic #AI with the strengths of large language models. The limitations of current #LLMs are well articulated, especially the lack of explainability and failures in intentional contexts. Moving to a symbolic system could address these issues.  His paper … Continue reading →

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AI4OPT: AI for Optimization

Posted on July 10, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

AI4OPT, NSF Artificial Intelligence Research Institute for Advances in Optimization, aims at delivering a paradigm shift in automated decision making at massive scales by fusing AI and Mathematical Optimization, to deliver breakthroughs that neither field can achieve independently. The Institute … Continue reading →

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The Black Belt Of Digital Decisions

Posted on June 30, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In Jan-2017 Mike Gualtieri from Forrester published a report “Prescriptive Analytics: The Black Belt Of Digital Decisions” which tied Analytics to actionable Decisions. Mike wrote: “Enterprises must stop wasting time and money on unactionable analytics. These efforts don’t matter if the resulting … Continue reading →

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About LLM Reasoning and Planning Abilities

Posted on June 12, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Today Yann LeCun wrote: “Auto-regressive LLM have very limited reasoning and planning abilities. I do not believe we can get anywhere close to human-level AI (even cat-level AI) without (1) learning world models from sensory inputs like video, (2) an … Continue reading →

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Combining LLM with Traditional Coding

Posted on June 10, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

A project lead of Google Bard just announced that “Bard is improving at mathematical tasks, coding questions and string manipulation through a new technique called implicit code execution. Plus, it has a new export action to Google Sheets… With this … Continue reading →

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What AI is, isn’t, and could be

Posted on June 10, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Marc Andreessen wrote: “What AI is: The application of mathematics and software code to teach computers how to understand, synthesize, and generate knowledge in ways similar to how people do it. AI is a computer program like any other – it runs, … Continue reading →

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An active repository of all human knowledge?

Posted on June 3, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Yann LeCun tweeted: “Imagine a future in which your daily interaction with the world of information is mediated by an AI assistant. This AI assistant would be like an active repository of all human knowledge. It will become your best … Continue reading →

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Consistency Checks of Large Language Models

Posted on May 30, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Do Language Models Know When They’re Hallucinating References? Current state-of-the-art language models (LMs) are notorious for generating text with “hallucinations,” a primary example being book and paper references that lack any solid basis in their training data. However, we find … Continue reading →

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wAIting for Godot

Posted on May 28, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Kurt Cagle’s “When the Jobs Don’t Come Back“: “The hopes that AI will result in significant staff reductions may be premature at best. What it will do is make it easier for smaller companies to become capable of producing products … Continue reading →

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How do we define intelligence?

Posted on May 27, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Dan Everett wrote in Linkedin comments: from Oxford Dictionaryintelligence: the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. LLMs have developed capabilities that programmers did not specifically program.Language translations Theory of mind Looks like that meets the acquire skills requirement. ✅ … Continue reading →

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