Keynote Speakers
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Prof. Gloria Phillips-Wren
Loyola University Maryland, USAThe Impact of Generative AI on Decision Making and Analytics
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Prof. Gloria Phillips-Wren
Loyola University Maryland, USAThe Impact of Generative AI on Decision Making and Analytics
Abstract:
Generative AI (genAI) has burst upon the workplace over the past few years impacting how work is accomplished and by whom. In particular, the type of genAI called Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated the facility to provide analysis of data and what appears to be reasonable answers to questions posed and answered in natural language. The jury is still out on what tasks and whose jobs may be subsumed by genAI and LLMs. For example, in the area of decision making and analytics, creativity is often cited as a necessary part of analysis as the decision maker develops approaches to solve a decision problem. However, can genAI actually be creative when we know that it is a statistical parrot? In addition, should we trust analysis that we did not develop ourselves with human intelligence? In this discussion, we look at current research in genAI for decision making and go to the professional community for insight on how LLMs are being using to change analytics workflows. We conclude by suggesting future research questions related to decision making using this emerging technology.
Biography:
Gloria Phillips-Wren is a Professor in the Department of Information Systems, Law and Operations Management at Loyola University Maryland. She is a founder and co-editor-in-chief of Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT) and Associate Editor of the Journal of Decision Systems (JDS). Dr. Phillips-Wren is a past-chair and Board Member of the Special Interest Group on Decision Support and Analytics (SIGDSA) under the Association of Information Systems (AIS), Secretary of IFIP WG8.3 Decision Support (DS), and leader of a focus group for KES in intelligent decision technologies. Her research interests and publications are in decision making and support, analytics, generative AI, healthcare IT, and strategic uses of technologies such as genAI. Her work appears in Omega, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Decision Support Systems, IDT, JDS, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Expert Systems with Applications, Big Data, IT & People, among others. She has also published 13 books (including co-edited), along with numerous book chapters and conference proceedings.