Astut Explorative AI®

Thought leadership

Our perspective on AI

Taxonomy of AI
To understand the unique capability of Explorative AI, it helps to see how the broader AI landscape has evolved. A fifth paradigm is emerging to help leaders navigate the unknown.
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Avoiding AI Fallacies
Traditional AI, including LLMs, are built to learn from the past. They excel where data is abundant. But when there is no historical data and a decision is truly novel they reach their limits. Worse still, they may generate answers they cannot fully justify.
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The 2 steps of Explorative AI
Beginning with the options you may already know, Astut Explorative AI® explores outward, systematically, into the space of the unprecedented.
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The most exciting work comes when we discover things we cannot yet do

The taxonomy

The five paradigms of AI

New paradigm

Current AI paradigms

New paradigm
Explorative AI
What is possible?
Discover a diverse set of viable possibilities before you make the final decision.
Current AI paradigms
Predictive AI
What is likely?
Learns from historical data to estimate future outcomes. No data means no prediction
Evolutionary AI
What is best?
Search for an optimum based on a predefined measure or reward. Requires an established objective
Generative AI
Create on demand.
Creative, but produces only what it is directed to and does not explore systematically
Agentic AI
How can we execute?
Execute within defined parameters to achieve pre-established goals

Astut Explorative AI® answers the question other AI skips:

What is possible?

How it works

The two stages of Explorative AI
Explore and Refute

For complex, multi-faceted challenges the possibility space is complex. It is easier to start exploring than trying to define the space itself.
Astut Explorative AI® starts from seeds that are likely already well known options.
Novelty Search algorithms push the frontier of possibilities outwards, discovering new and different options from those found previously.
As the exploration continues the shape and complexity of the space is discovered. This additional knowledge can be used to further inform the explorer.
Astut Explorative AI® applies inverse reasoning. It uses the domain knowledge held in the constraints to systematically eliminate options that are impossible or unacceptable. Every possible option is tested against these original constraints, and those that pass are labelled as viable.
Furthermore, every option is also tested against new additional objections that are discovered as the wide and wise exploration continues.
Every viable option comes with clear reasoning that is open and transparent. Options can be challenged and refined by applying objections discovered during exploration or adding your own.
Interrogate the reasoning, find distinct concepts to understand both the what and the why. Make your decisions supported by Astut Explorative AI®.

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Explore

For complex, multi-faceted challenges the possibility space is complex. It is easier to start exploring than trying to define the space itself.

Astut Explorative AI® starts from seeds that are likely already well known options.

Novelty Search algorithms push the frontier of possibilities outwards, discovering new and different options from those found previously.

As the exploration continues the shape and complexity of the space is discovered. This additional knowledge can be used to further inform the explorer.

Refute

Astut Explorative AI® applies inverse reasoning. It uses the domain knowledge held in the constraints to systematically eliminate options that are impossible or unacceptable. Every possible option is tested against these original constraints, and those that pass are labelled as viable.

Furthermore, every option is also tested against new additional objections that are discovered as the wide and wise exploration continues.

Then you decide

Every viable option comes with clear reasoning that is open and transparent. Options can be challenged and refined by applying objections discovered during exploration or adding your own.

Interrogate the reasoning, find distinct concepts to understand both the what and the why. Make your decisions supported by Astut Explorative AI®.

Why it matters

Where Data Ends, Reasoning Begins.

Imagine facing a decision where the stakes are high but the path forward is invisible. A crisis with no precedent. A strategic pivot into the unknown. A response to a threat that has never been encountered before.

Astut have built their first application using Explorative AI.

High-stakes unprecedented decision making

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