Creating a Simple Knowledge Graph (and a Pizza) with AI

Kurt Cagle just shared his experience of using an LLM tool for building a knowledge graph. He asked DeepSeek to “Generate a list of all of the object types that may be relevant to running a pizza shop” and after some prompts received a quite comprehensive ontology. He concluded: “After a few years of working with both LLMs and KGs, I’m still not convinced that an LLM can act as a broad-scale knowledge graph out of the box (there are still some big unresolved issues about the limitation of latent spaces and the mapping of narrative to conceptual models, for instance). However, as a tool for building knowledge graphs, an LLM can dramatically reduce both the complexity of constructing a knowledge graph and make it easier to test and visualize what that knowledge graph is capable of.” Link

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Don’t Centralize AI agents under IT 


David Pidsley from Gartner posted on LinkedIn: “Centralizing AI agent management under IT could stifle adaptive governance and innovation by focusing too much on operational “how” rather than strategic “why.” Instead, decision-making authority should remain distributed across business units, ensuring alignment with customer needs and strategic goals.

AI agents should not be viewed as “workers” or “interns” but rather as high-agency decision systems—designed to automate or augment specific decision model, executed and monitored for self-improvement.”

A design principle for AI agents should be decision-centricity. AI agents are more akin to “the new apps” than human employees, and “managing” them requires a product management approach, not a talent management framework.” Link

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Bob Kowalski on What is AI?

In 2017 Prof. Bob Kowalski, the famous expert in Logical AI including Prolog, presented “Logic and AI” at the joint session of DecisionCAMP and RuleML+RR. It is interesting to hear his recent thoughts about today’s symbolic and sub-symbolic AIs – here is the link.

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Turning insurance contracts into code

Sam Burrett posted today: Insurance policies are a nightmare for most consumers. It’s hard to know what’s covered and what isn’t. Could AI help? The Stanford CodeX team tested GPT4o’s ability to turn an insurance policy into code, which could be queried in a simple question/answer format. They found GPT4 produced tangled code and misunderstood key provisions.

However, OpenAI’s new ‘reasoning’ model was much better. o1-preview correctly encoded and insurance policy and hit 83% accuracy on coverage questions. Is that good enough for the real world? Not yet.

But as the researchers say: “We are on the cusp of an exciting era where AI can make legal solutions more accessible by applying human-like thinking, including planning and reasoning.” That’s exciting.
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Will the use of DI jump to 60% in 2025?

Gartner predicts by the end of this year, 60% of analytics and business intelligence (ABI) platforms will claim to enable decision intelligence (DI), but only 10% will have a decision-centric UI to model and track decisions.” Link

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Combining AI and OR/MS for Better Trustworthy Decision Making

An interesting event “Bridge: AI+ORMS” will occur on February 25-26, 2025 as a part of the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Philadelphia USA. “The goal of this bridge program is to unite AI and OR/MS practitioners and researchers to improve trustworthy decision-making in key socio-technical areas such as supply chains, healthcare, crisis management, homeland security, robotics, wildlife conservation, medicine, transportation, and finance. It aims to equip them with better tools by familiarizing them with each other’s techniques and domains and bring the disciplines together to advance the research and application at the intersection of AI and OR/MS so as to improve decision-making.” Link

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Isaac Asimov and GenAI

Here is the post of Rafael Brown:

Isaac Asimov: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”‘

Generative AI isn’t democratizing anything creative. Far from it, Generative AI is democratizing laziness and stupidity. We didn’t have any shortage of either prior to generative AI. Actual writing is thinking put onto paper (or electronically or digitally). I was taught long ago by English & Literature teachers that writing was a way of composing one’s thoughts. Writing, or other compositions, regardless of medium, are essential to working out, mapping out, interrogating, and comprehending complex ideas, including one’s own thoughts. Don’t miss comments. Here is the most scary one.

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Warren Powell about “Agentic AI”

The latest AI buzz word: “Agentic AI”.

“AI” has become such an empty phrase, and adding adjectives such as “agentic” simply adds more jargon.

When referring to software, can we please use terms that clearly describe products that businesses can actually purchase, with well-defined functionality? Link

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The first NoCode tool

Stéphane Dalbera wrote: “In an era where almost everything is marketed as a disruptive evolution and incredible innovation, I thought it would be worthwhile to revisit a truly game-changing piece of software.” His post is devoted to 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐜. Nowadays, DMN-like decision tables placed in spreadsheets or similar graphical interfaces (without VisiCalc/Excel formulas) allow business analysts to represent and execute the most complex business logic with no code. Link

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Thought-Provoking AI-2025 Predictions

Greg Isenberg published his controversial but thought-provoking list of predictions. Here are just a few hooks:

  • A Fortune 500 company loses billions when its AI agents make thousands of bad decisions in minutes. 
  • “AI-free” becomes the new organic. Products start advertising themselves as “made by humans” or “AI-free” as a premium feature.
  • Products stop having “versions” because AI agents continuously evolve them based on usage.
  • Code becomes worthless but software still gets harder to build. Link
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