Many high-performance organizations remain passionate about Vilfredo Pareto, the incisive Italian engineer and economist. They continue to be inspired by his 80/20 principle, the idea that 80% of effects (sales, revenue, etc.) come from 20% of causes (pro... (more…)

The field of artificial intelligence may finally be coming back around to Douglas Hofstadter. Since winning a Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Hofstadter, 72, has been quietly thinking about thin... (more…)

An artificial intelligence platform that correctly picked the Kentucky Derby superfecta and the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series has chosen the Green Bay Packers to win Super Bowl LI.

Bots go bust — so goes the first of the five AI startup predictions in 2017 by Bradford Cross, countering some recent excitement around… (more…)

Demystifying the differences—and clarifying the relationships—between artificial intelligence, machine learning, and self-driving cars.