Artificial Intelligence is a too-often mischaracterized nomenclature used by many business development and marketing organizations in claims their company is operating in that space. Most AI-claimed products actually provide historical reports of activities that already occurred, rather than real analysis of the environment to predict future business and mission impacts, and their AI analysis is too often just the same report with more sources.
A number of leading edge analytic tools are capable of doing much more than report generation by looking at outlier data points to discern changes or previously unknown information that could affect business decisions. Their secret sauce is in providing intelligent systems driven by thousands and millions of small insignificant pieces of information on their own that put together create a broader, deeper picture from which better decisions can be made.
As technology experts talk today about future intelligent decision systems, they use the term Artificial Intelligence (AI). I prefer the term Intuitive Intelligence (or I2). This implies that intuition must be a part of that intelligent system. There is some science that indicates men and women often arrive at decisions differently. Men are inclined to stick with the facts and make a decision based on what the black and white data tells them. Women are often able to incorporate intuitive (gray area) feelings in the decision process versus a data-driven only perspective. Intuition is an ability to understand something based on a feeling, but in reality that feeling is driven by a multitude of many, many (many) small pieces of often insignificant information that are assimilated in a way to make a better risk assessment. Continue reading
We need to change the way we think about artificial intelligence. It is actually neither artificial nor intelligent in the way we normally consider these concepts. AI implies decisions made through computers programmed to make choices to act in a certain manner. But those computers are programmed simply to make yes/no decision — in an electronic circuit, it’s either yes or no, the circuit is on or its off. The major dynamic a work, though, is that the number of yes/no decisions is based upon a significantly larger set of information variables that have been programmed to be of some importance in the ultimate outcome.
happen, whether they’re the right things or not. Usually he/she is interested in only what benefits themself, but occasionally will take on a larger cause (because of the personal gains in the end). It is all about the power and the winning. It is never about taking anyone else’s considerations into account. It is rarely about trying to understand what others are talking about or where they’re coming from. It is seldom about assimilating the best of all, leveraging all ideas, people, and cultures. It is very much a me-centric perspective. Everyone wants to jump on the bully bandwagon because they want to feel like winners.
We too often react to what is happening around the world, rather than asking why. Our foreign policy has become a responder to the most current threat(s), and we seem lost to consider or act with a thought out strategy for what is important for our continued existence 100 years hence or to even attempt to understand why nation states act in irrational or extraordinary fashion. Additionally, we telegraph our every move through a constant need to show that we can scurry faster than the latest social media. This is not world leadership and certainly not that of a state committed to the ultimate betterment of mankind.
Always ask “what happens next? where do you want this to end up?” Military creep is far easier than pulling back on the reins. “You cannot impose your will, you can’t impose your values, you can’t impose your standards, your institutions on other societies and other countries. It has never worked; it never will work, as noble as you believe the effort is.”
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