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Dave Snowden
I haven’t used a gapingvoid® cartoon for a bit in a blog post, but this one could not have been more appropriate for my theme of today, which deals with both conflict and the AI issue; hence, my playing with the A and the I in the title.  The other reason is the pattern-based QuickSense […]
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Dave Snowden
One of the most frequent corrections I have to make to public uses of Cynefin is to clarify that it is a framework, not a model; in some ways, it is more irritating than pointing out that you can’t have five quadrants.  The latter I find more amusing in direct proportion to the educational level […]
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Dave Snowden
There is a little of the old and the new in the imagery I have used in this post.  I took the banner picture on an evening walk along the Ridgeway from its official start on Overton Hill.  The Ridgeway is one of the ancient pathways in Europe, and it can be walked as far […]
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Dave Snowden
Yesterday, I summarised the material in my pre and post-Christmas blogs and added material on tribalism. One of the key points I was making there is that creating boundaries and conflict between those boundaries is a natural tendency of all species. You can’t eliminate it, so you have to work with it. To that, we […]
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Dave Snowden
I’ve been building a theme based on the idea that making sense through patterns is a natural form of decision-making that has evolved in humans over time. That has also been linked to the difference between abductive and inductive thinking, which has also been critical to the AI series, which I am temporarily interrupting as […]
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Dave Snowden
One of the broader issues, and I am by no means the first person to call this out, of the way people talk and, by implication, think about AI is anthropomorphic. This is problematic on many levels, including how it frames the issue. The reality is that AI is a set of algorithms and energy-hungry […]
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Dave Snowden
This is the opening post in a short series looking at AI, which, while most undoubtedly artificial, is not intelligent and can never be, to get my cards on the table. I flagged up this subject in the Twelfetide series, where I raised several issues and a particular concern: an invitation to an undefined future […]
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Dave Snowden
Observant readers will have noticed that I am using pragmatism in two respects: yesterday in reference to abduction and the Pragmatists today in respect to the more normal day-to-day use. In the opening post, I talked about our natural ability to manage patterns in our daily lives and how language carries highly contextual meaning in […]
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Dave Snowden
Before Thursday’s trip to Liverpool, I talked about the pattern basis of human decision-making and our evolved ability to make decisions under inherent uncertainty. Now, this is a big subject, and I am only going to touch the surface in these two blog posts. In my last point, I talked about the requisite ambiguity that […]
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