Category Archives: Human-Machine Interaction

AI-powered Coding Tools

Andrew NG summarized the state of AI-powered code generators including eBay’s low-code, DeepMind introduced AlphaCode, GitHub’s Copilot that autocompletes your code in real time, and OpenAI’s GPT-3. “The widely available versions of this technology aren’t yet able to write complex programs. Often … Continue reading

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Interaction | Leave a comment

Cocktail Conversations

Neil Raden published an interesting post at LinkedIn: “Maybe I need to rethink my position on #chatGPT. Does it display humanlike intelligence? Maybe its vapid, content-free prose really is human intelligence. I described “Cocktail Conversation” in InformationWeek in 2008 as chatter … Continue reading

Posted in Human-Machine Interaction, Humor, Natural Language Processing | Leave a comment

Demystifying ChatGPT

2 Millions people have already signed up to use ChatGPT that has been generating a lot of buzz in the AI community. What can it create, and where are the humans in the loop? How does this generalize? Cassie Kozyrkov, Chief … Continue reading

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Interaction, Machine Learning | 1 Comment

Can’t We Do Better Than This?

BRCommunity.com just published a story written by Bas van der Raadt: “Why did I almost end my 15+ year career in Enterprise architecture? Because I felt like large organizations are just doomed — destined to stay stuck in the complexities they … Continue reading

Posted in Human-Machine Interaction, Knowledge Representation | Leave a comment

Natural Language Execution – NLE

There is an ongoing discussion about NLE at LinkedIn started by Bas van der Raadt: “Contrary to Natural Lanuage Processing (NLP), NLE to me is: Going directly from (controlled) natural language to executable software without any intermediate steps of for … Continue reading

Posted in Human-Machine Interaction, Natural Language Processing | Leave a comment

Intelligent Virtual Assistants

As businesses race to provide better customer experience at a lower cost, the adoption of intelligent virtual assistants (IVA) will continue to explode. In its latest Decision Matrix for selecting an intelligent virtual assistant, Ovum evaluates top IVA vendors in … Continue reading

Posted in Customer service, Human-Machine Interaction, Natural Language Processing | Leave a comment

AI in Decision Domain 

An interesting discussion has started by this LinkedIn post: Typically, we analyze data and models from the operational domain. However, no amount of crunching on this data will reveal opportunities for decision advantage – because there is no information about … Continue reading

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making, Decision Modeling, Human-Machine Interaction, Insurance Industry, Knowledge Representation | Leave a comment

Again about AI understanding

On Dec-2021 Melanie Mitchell published “What Does It Mean for AI to Understand“: “Remember IBM’s Watson, the AI Jeopardy! champion? A 2010 promotion proclaimed, “Watson understands natural language with all its ambiguity and complexity.” However, as we saw when Watson subsequently failed spectacularly in … Continue reading

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Interaction, Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing | Leave a comment

Guiding mathematical intuition with AI

It is clear that intuition plays an important role in elite performance in many human pursuits. In this work the authors demonstrate a framework for mathematicians to use machine learning that has led to mathematical insight across two distinct disciplines: … Continue reading

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Interaction | Leave a comment

Everything old is new again

Prof. Gene Freuder writes about Human-Centered AI: “human-centered”, “human-aware“, “human-AI collaboration” are, rightly, very prominent nowadays. But “everything old is new again”: I ran across an interesting twenty-year-old paper from the European Journal of Operational Research on Human centered processes and decision support … Continue reading

Posted in Business Rules, Constraint Programming, Decision Making, Human-Machine Interaction, Machine Learning | Leave a comment