Category Archives: Innovation

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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Can LLMs create something truly new?

See Martin Milani‘s answer: “Novelty is not born from history. It arises from logic, imagination, and reasoning: asking “what if?”, testing counterfactuals, building on principles, and pushing beyond what data alone can reveal. Every major leap in science and technology … Continue reading

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Large Companies vs Startups in the age of AI

Andrew NG states that “large companies are slower than startups for many reasons. But why are even 3-person, scrappy teams within large companies slower than startups of a similar size? One major reason is that large companies have more to … Continue reading

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Dantzig’s Story

“If I had known that the problems were not homework but were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics, I probably would not have thought positively, would have become discouraged, and would never have solved them.” George Dantzig The … Continue reading

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Meet Bard, Google’s Answer to ChatGPT

WIRED just published comments on today’s announcement that Google will roll out a chatbot named Bard “in the coming weeks.” The launch appears to be a response to ChatGPT, the sensationally popular artificial intelligence chatbot developed by startup OpenAI with funding from … Continue reading

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Google Chain of Thought

On Jan 18, 2023 Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research, published “Google Research, 2022 & Beyond: Language, Vision and Generative Models” that could be treated as a response to ChatGPT boom without mentioning its explicitly. In particular, it … Continue reading

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Augmented BPMS: A Research Manifesto

A group of researchers (many of whom are associated with Declarative AI and indirectly with DecisionCAMP) just published the manifesto “Augmented Business Process Management Systems“: “While traditional BPMSs encode pre-defined flows and rules, an ABPMS augmented by AI is able … Continue reading

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Insights for AI from the Human Mind

“Artificial intelligence has recently beaten world champions in Go and poker and made extraordinary progress in domains such as machine translation, object classification, and speech recognition. However, most AI systems are extremely narrowly focused. AlphaGo, the champion Go player, does … Continue reading

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Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence

The topic of the Ethical Use of AI and Digital Decisioning came up many times during DecisionCAMP-2019 and BRAIN-2019 a week ago. Probably our readers would be interested to read this report “Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence for Actuaries” written … Continue reading

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SBVR Specification for the Organ Donation Challenge

Ron Ross submitted Rule Specification for the Organ Donation Challenge that is based on SBVR/RuleSpeak. “The first and foremost concern is the exact business semantics of the problem. The rule specifications presented below address that fundamentally important objective. The RuleSpeak/SBVR … Continue reading

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