Decision Mechanics

Insight. Applied.

  • Services
    • Decision analysis
    • Big data analysis
    • Software development
  • Articles
  • Blog
  • Privacy
  • Hire us

Self-driving car from 1958

June 27, 2022 By editor

GM produced a self-driving car prototype…in 1958. There’s a short documentary about it. Required wires in the road rather than machine learning.

Presumably their PR machine said, "They’ll be commercially viable by 1959."

Filed Under: Artificial intelligence Tagged With: GM, machine learning, self-driving car

Decision Machines

April 11, 2020 By editor

A recent article on the Harvard Business School’s Digital Initiative blog argues that we need to move beyond prediction to create "decision machines".

It is decisions, not predictions, that have consequences.

I couldn’t agree more. However, I’m not sure that the current focus on statistical machine learning is going to lead us there.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: AI, decision-making, decisions, machine learning

Search

Subscribe to blog via e-mail

Subscribe via RSS

Recent posts

  • Percentages or proportions?
  • Data storytelling
  • Self-driving car from 1958
  • Sentient AI
  • Is functional programming more effective than object-orientated programming?

Copyright © 2023 · Decision Mechanics Limited · info@decisionmechanics.com