Symbolic Generative AI

We claim that symbolic, rule-based AIs – millions of which have already been deployed since the phrase ‘expert system’ became popular in the 1980s – can and should be repurposed as generative AIs, enabled by recent advances in mathematics and computer...

Aftershock: Pattern Channeling

Aftershock: Pattern Channeling Who will dominate our future economy and how they will do it.   Much of the beauty of Future Shock was in the window it provided to transformative social change. When many were distracted by technical change, Toffler’s insights...

AI: The Economic Engine of the Future

AI: The Economic Engine of the Future AI is often described as the economic engine of the future. But to realize that growth, we must think beyond AI to the whole system of data and the rules and context surrounding it: our data infrastructure (DI). Our DI supports...

UBER Case Study

UBER Case Study Conexus automates manual work on which tens of billions are spent annually. Conexus also automates tasks that were ideally to be done, but were not because the system configuration was too slow and unreliable. Sometimes, however, the work that Conexus...

Dear Mr. President: A Note on AI Policy

Dear Mr. President: A Note on AI Policy   Dear Mr. President, AI is often described as the economic engine of the future. But to realize that growth, we must think beyond AI to the whole system of data, and the rules and context that surround it: our data...

Haven’s Failure: A More Helpful Perspective

Haven’s Failure: A More Helpful Perspective     The recent news reports that Haven, the joint healthcare venture between Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway, was quietly being shut down, came as no great surprise to those of us who work in the...