Thinking same as always!

Do I drink my usual Americano or try something different? @PTetlock @mjmauboussin @AnnieDuke?

Phillip Ball kindly sat for an interview to discuss his book "How Life Works" from a #collectiveintelligence perspective.

At conference where someone said “Chief AI Officers” will not go away. Ironic, that the acronym is CAIO!.

Northwestern was kind enough to post a brief piece John Ledyard and I wrote about our PhD advisor Stan Reiter who would be 100 this year

RT @UCStoneCenter: New Episode!. @Scott_E_Page (@UMich) joins host @sndurlauf to unpack complex systems thinking: what it is, why it matter….

Honored to have just been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. ⁦@sfiscience⁩ ⁦@UMICHCS⁩ ⁦⁦@MichiganRoss⁩

Roland: chief supervisor patio installation

Excited to announce that my book, The Difference, has been reissued as a Princeton Classic!!

Discussion on AI often focuses on whether it is (a) augmenting humans or (b) an agent. Here's a super thoughtful, important take that it is a cultural and social technology. This aligns with research at U-Michigan on The Choice

RT @NateSilver538: Yes, this is about you-know-who. Much more at the link below.

I organized discussion on descent phenomenon in prediction. Less paradoxical than it first appeared. More data and more parameters prevent overfitting. Slide with key intuition and cite attached

RT @mjmauboussin: 2/Here's a link to the report:

Moderna created 750 GPTs in house The brilliant @Challamel explains how in this exhilarating podcast AI is assistant, expert, coach, and co-creator. Everyone is now a 5 person team! Using AI is not nearly as risky as not using AI!.

Creativity Test. Make a list of dog names such that each sequential pair of dogs is a "funny" combination. Example:. 1. Pecan. 2. Butter. 3. Peanut. 4. Mister. 5. Rogers. 6. Jolly. 7. Rancher. Each pair is funny: butter pecan, peanut butter, mister peanut, mister rogers, . .

In my Collective Intelligence a thread is institutions - markets, democracies, organizations, communities and algorithms - enable better coordination. Website tracking effect of NYCs new congestion pricing policy (a move from self-organization to market)

U.S. Executive Order on AI terminology section includes (in order).(l)  The term “Federal law enforcement agency” .(m)  The term “floating-point operation”.(n)  The term “foreign person” .If you gave people the definitions of (l) and (n), imagine how they might define (m).

Great brief article: gives big picture plusses and minuses of how collections of humans and bots compete, cooperate, coordinate, promote contagion of ideas, and collectively decide. Archive link to an earlier version for those behind Nature's fierwall

University of Michigan has an open assistant professor position in Complex Systems. Amazing opportunity to do join an interdisciplinary community of faculty and students. Looking for discipline thinkers who transcend disciplines.

The University of Michigan now has a hammock policy. Trees 6 inch diameter per hammock up to 3. Max strap height of 8 ft. “Recommended” min height of hammock 18. Encourage your university to adopt to avoid serving on hammock task force!