Category Archives: Trends

Artificial Intelligence vs. Artificial Stupidity

Posted on February 6, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“People who worry that we’re on course to invent dangerously intelligent machines are misunderstanding the state of computer science”, – says this MIT Technology Review. Read how Yoshua Bengio, a professor of computer science at the University of Montreal, puts things in … Continue reading →

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Charles Barkley vs. Analytics

Posted on January 29, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Basketball legend Charles Barkley “dealt a death blow to the burgeoning analytics industry” when he called Houston Rockets General Manager “one of those idiots who believes in analytics.” Read more about the difference between human experience (playing sports) and an abstraction … Continue reading →

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Wall Street Investing in AI

Posted on January 24, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

A quote from the Goldman Sachs podcast: “We’re really at the very beginnings in the world of recognizing and seeing how you can take AI, artificial intelligence, and really provide business applications around it. That’s an area that we’re also investing … Continue reading →

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Predictive Analytics Power and Pitfalls

Posted on January 4, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In the last 5 years predictive analytics demonstrated its power and experts predict that 2016 will be a year of Business Analytics. However, those who use the proper tools for years are well aware of pitfalls of these techniques. While experts … Continue reading →

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How far have we really come in Artificial Intelligence?

Posted on December 18, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

To explain the failure of Artificial Intelligence to live up to its potential, Dr. Gary Marcus from NYU suggested three things: fallen in love with statistics falling in love with Big Data forgotten its roots. Read more in this article.

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Is technology making us stupid?

Posted on December 17, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Do you think technology is making us stupid? Are our mental abilities degenerating because we no longer have any need to memorize things, or to do arithmetic, or remember how to spell? Or are our mental abilities simply expanding in … Continue reading →

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5 Predictions for 2016: The Year of Prescriptive Analytics

Posted on December 8, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Scott Zoldi, chief analytics officer at FICO, published his 2016 predictions. Some of them are quite controversial. At the end he writes: “What do you think? Do my predictions make sense? Do you disagree? I’d love to hear your thoughts on … Continue reading →

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New Open-Source Machine Learning Frameworks from Industry Giants

Posted on December 7, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Within one month we saw one IT giant after another coming up with “open-source” frameworks for ML / Advanced Analytics. This can’t be a coincidence! 

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Analytics Reading

Posted on December 1, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

You may find several interesting analytics links just published by Nathan Brixius and Jean-Francois Puget.

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We Built Them, But We Don’t Understand Them

Posted on November 26, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We design machines to act the way we do: they help drive our cars, fly our airplanes, route our packages, approve our loans, screen our messages, recommend our entertainment, suggest our next potential romantic partners, and enable our doctors to … Continue reading →

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