Category Archives: Human-Machine Interaction

Amazement Trumps Reason

Vincent Lextrait, the founder of METASPEX, published an article with this name. It is not about AI, but as Vincent mentioned, “I do not think I need to say what inspired that post.” This is a good story with personal … Continue reading

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AI Yes-Men

Pieter van Schalkwyk posted on LinkedIn “When AI Agents Tell You What You Want to Hear: The Sycophancy Problem“. In particular, he says: “Modern AI models learn to maximize user satisfaction metrics. This training creates a fundamental bias toward telling … Continue reading

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How to determine the exact state of a business process with thousands of ongoing cases, in real-time?

In this post, Prof. Marlon Dumas describes new techniques that efficiently compute the current state of a business process from event logs of ongoing cases. Replaying event logs interactively from any point in time, you fast-forward to any time point, … Continue reading

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“Expert Systems Will Lead the Next Chapter of AI”

Clive Spenser pointed to a very interesting Oct-2024 article by Martin Milani that makes the case for coupling deep learning with expert systems. “In the next generation of AI, advanced expert systems will serve as the core “intelligence,” acting as … Continue reading

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Streaming intelligible speech from the brain in real time

A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with severe paralysis. This work solves the long-standing challenge of latency in speech neuroprostheses, the time lag between when … Continue reading

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AI Interview

Kurt Cagle: “I’ve been interviewed hundreds of times over my career for work-related positions, consultations, and podcasts. An interview is a conversation. It is a chance to get to know the people you might be working with, to assess the … Continue reading

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Is AI the new UI?

“Salesforce made its name by offering a great UI atop a database. But if AI really is the next generation of software interaction, we might see something far more radical—something that shifts focus away from the user meticulously clicking around, to the system doing … Continue reading

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Removing Ambiguity in Business Rules

In his recent article “Being Unambiguous Beyond Reasonable Doubt in Expressing Rules” Ron Ross gave an example of the kind of ambiguity that policy interpreters, business analysts, and IT professionals deal with daily. It’s a sentence from the California 2014 … Continue reading

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The importance of handwriting

The Economist published an interesting article “The importance of handwriting is becoming better understood”: “In modern life, writing means typing. Writing by hand has become an endangered species. But one series of studies has found a big advantage in note-taking … Continue reading

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Generative AI on the Peak of the 2023 Hype Cycle

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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