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Sharon RichardsonFrom atoms to bits and back again! Exploring technologies impacting the intelligence - decision action cycle that underpins cognitive behaviour, human and artificial.
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How to create a better AI
Author presenting ‘Can we ~~How to~~ create a better AI? - Things Conference, 2019
The following is a reproduction of a post from my old site www.joiningdots.com published in October 2019. The advice was on how to build a better AI. Origin...
AI's semantic turn
image generated by Midjourney, April 2026
TL;DR: Over the past six months, several of the most capable enterprise data platforms have converged around the same architectural idea: AI agents need access not just to organisational data, but...
AI agent reliability needs attention
Image generated by Midjourney, April 2026
TL;DR: A narrative is building that AI agents have reached the point where they can reliably perform hours of cognitive work with minimal human intervention or oversight. The most widely cited evid...
The minds we imagine in machines
Image by Midjourney, created 1 April 2026
TL;DR: In 1966, a rudimentary chatbot called ELIZA fooled people into confiding in it, despite doing little more than rearranging their own words. Its creator was so disturbed he spent the rest of...
AI and a new frontier for decision intelligence
image by Midjourney, 29 March 2026
TL;DR: A growing number of voices are converging on the same insight: the most important data in any organisation has never been captured. A system of record captures transactional data. It does not expla...
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