News & Commentary
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The Tao of Robot Ethics: Artificial Moral Agents
This presentation in Hong Kong and Shanghai under the auspices of the Alumni network at Manchester Business School, builds on earlier work in progress with neotenic data patterns where algorithms are emotionally connected to code. For algorithms to evolve as artificial moral agents (AMA), algorithms would have to be programmed with an ‘act-like’ real people…
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Neoteny: Something Abstract is Thinking
The algorithms behind artificial intelligence can enable the software to recognise faces, translate languages, and play complex games. They facilitate online shopping and search. The synchronised interaction between you, the rational online consumer (‘onsumer’, henceforth) and a sufficiently intelligent algorithm, (Al Gorithm, henceforth) is best understood as an asymmetric game as described recently in a…
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Meso-Data: Omega Circles & Origami Manifolds
Masterclass 2018 will discuss whether or not meso-data patterns could be decoded from omega circles. Intuitively, it means that Mr Al. Gorithm (and his influence on the onsumer choice set) embeds predictable patterns in everyday behaviour so that small data sets become richer than big data ever imagined. Work in progress, scheduled for Dubai, Abu…
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Beyond Individual Choice: Meso-Data Creativity
In this presentation, delivered in Dubai, a sustainable strategy is defined as convergence to group rationality via creative solutions. One creative solution – meso-data creativity – is discussed in terms of a sufficiently intelligent algorithms (SIAL), the purpose of which is to to nudge behaviour towards a sustainable strategy outcome. Once rational individuals are ‘enveloped’…
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Game Ontology
Patrick will be on a speaking tour in Asia introducing an innovative approach to strategy by complementing game theory with philosophy. The phrase ‘game ontology’ is reserved as a working title for a new book planned with McGraw Hill Asia for 2017 release. He will introduce the philosophy of conduct to audiences at business meetings…
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Masterclass: Second Win
The Second Win The second win is a move in the strategy set that is guided by knowledge of player type rather than by the path of payoffs. Playing the second win a player forfeits larger payoffs that could be achieved by more aggressive play in the early sequence of moves. A relatively new concept…
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Data Pharaoh & ‘Onsumers’
Building on the Griffiths College lecture,25th August 2016, Patrick continued his theme on the search for data algorithms. During March 2017 presentations were made in Shanghai and Dubai; a copy can be located here: DailyRoutineDataPharaoh2017WSTour.ppt Many businesses are online. Rational consumers shop online. A new generation of online consumers – ‘onsumers’ – shop online as…
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Doing Business in China
Writing for British Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai during a recent visit where Patrick offered a strategic framework for doing business in China. His views on China companies and China RMB strategy are also available HERE ChinaSuitcase.pdf
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New Module: Ethics in Business
Patrick launches a new module ‘Ethics and Responsibility in Business’ on the Manchester MBA programme in January 2015. Combining Kantian ethics with game theory reasoning and analysis, using case studies and examples, the module offers a new and refreshing approach to business ethics, governance and anti-trust regulations. It builds and extends on the range of…
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Lying is the Norm in a Noosphere: ‘Telling it slant’ and ‘white lies’ prevail.
In a paper presented at the Adam Smith Seminar Series, Ludwig Maximilian’s Universitat, LMU, in Munchen, January 2015 Patrick explored the meaning of lying and the meaning of truth. He concludes that the poet’s truth prevails; scientific truth is, on the contrary, fleeting, irrational, and dreamlike. A painter who cannot paint, is, as Socrates says,…