"We're nearing the bounds of complexity for the types of problems that humans can solve"  A quick look at the book Revealing The Invisible: How Our Hidden Behaviors Are Becoming The Most Valuable Commodity of the 21st Century, by Thomas Koulopoulos (Author) and George Achillias (Contributor)   https://amzn.to/2J8ZK1b

Artificial Intelligence (AI) may well be the most powerful technology of the 21st century, helping to solve humanity’s most complex unsolved problems: environmental, social, and more.  Yet skeptics believe that AI’s risks are as large as its potential benefits. How can they be avoided? And why isn’t the most powerful technology being used more widely today to solve the world’s greatest “wicked” problems?

Great technological advances are often a double-edged sword. A backlash follows an initial “honeymoon period”. Unintended consequences that were not immediately obvious during the technology’s infancy become more apparent, and may even overwhelm the initial, benefits. A historical example is the cotton gin, which led indirectly to the U.S. Civil War.   The challenge is to iron out the rough edges while preserving the benefits."

"There is an emerging movement of people who ... see the broader issues of the world, and they're sort of frustrated...they think AI isn't really solving these problems...machine learning is solving these single-link problems...What this conference is doing..it's lit a match to this kindling..our challenge here at this conference is to keep that fire going, and to have it build into a network of ecosystems that can solve these big problems."

All you ever wanted to know about the emerging field of Decision Intelligence.

We are very pleased to announce that Alcidion has entered into binding agreements to acquire health informatics software and services company MKM health in Australia and New Zealand, and Patientrack in the UK.

This transformative Acquisition creates a new and leading specialist health IT solution provider focused on “next generation” decision intelligence technology designed for hospital and allied healthcare customers globally. Patientrack and Alcidion’s existing Miya and Smartpage product sets will provide the expanded group with a strong foundation of complementary technologies.

"Where will the value be in AI when the hype is gone? Decision Intelligence is what's next: it is to AI as software engineering was to coding: a bridge from important problems to AI solutions. But also much more: integrating complex systems analysis, agent-based modeling, and many other disciplines, and forming the seeds of a Solutions Renaissance, where people work together with smart machines to solve the hardest problems faced by humanity."

It’s nice to see Decision Intelligence making waves. The subject of what we like to call DI here at Element Data was top of mind last week at the AI Decision Making Summit event held by Prowler.io in Palo Alto. There some of the top minds driving the sector spoke about issues including computational neuroscience, probabilistic modeling and AI simulations for regulatory decision-making.

We were especially pleased to see Lorien Pratt, PH.D. and chief data scientist at machine learning and Decision Intelligence firm Quantellia discuss DI in her presentation. Pratt, like Element Data, is a big proponent of DI, and called on attendees and people in this burgeoning field to “reduce the friction between tech and decisions.”

Lemonade co-founders Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger, together with Lemonade's Chief Behavioral Officer Professor Dan Ariely, explain the science behin

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• Welcome from Vishal Chatrath, CEO of PROWLER.io
• Introduction from David Rowan, Founding Editor-in-chief, WIRED UK’s edition
• Lorien Pratt, Quantellia - Why the time is now for decision-making AI
• Peter Dayan, UCL and Uber - How decisions go wrong - in brains and machines
• James Hensman, PROWLER.io - Probabilistic modeling technologies for decision-making
• Haitham Bou-Ammar, PROWLER.io - How decision-making can be efficiently scaled for high-dimensional problems
• Oliver Lewis, UK Cabinet Office - Using gaming technologies and simulations to make regulatory decisions
• Enrique Munoz de Cote & Sofia Ceppi, PROWLER.io - Multiple decision makers: What can go wrong and how to fix it
• Andrew Fursman, 1QBit - How quantum processors will tackle problems machine-learning techniques avoid
• Nagendra Nagaraja, AlphaICs - New chip architectures and how AI is going from a data user to a data generator
• Juha Seppa, PROWLER.io - Introducing the world’s first AI platform for decision-making, demo industry applications
• Kari Vatanen, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company - Implementing AI in the financial markets

"...transform decision-making in dynamic, high-dimensional systems like financial markets, logistics, transportation networks smart-cities, and supply chains..."

An emerging business discipline, Decision Intelligence is upending the way that organizations, governments, and companies make decisions. "

FDL is an applied artificial intelligence research accelerator established to maximize new AI technologies and capacities emerging in academia and the private sector and apply them to challenges in the space sciences.

Commercial, international and academic partners, such as Nvidia, Intel, IBM and Lockheed Martin, ESA, SpaceResources Luxembourg, USC MASCLE, Kx Systems and Miso Technologies providee capital, expertise and vast GPU compute resources necessary for rapid experimentation and iteration in data intensive areas.

FDL is hosted by the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California - in partnership with NASA Ames Research Center.