Category: Reading

Latest Read: The Language of Deception

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date March 2, 2024

The Language of Deception: Weaponizing Next Generation AI by Justin Hutchens.

He holds a masters in Computer Security Management from Strayer University and is a candidate Executive MBA at Texas A&M University.

Justin is a former Director, Cybersecurity Implementation & Operations at PwC and Cybersecurity Instructor at The University of Texas at Austin. Today he is a principal at Trace3.

Justin has written an insightful book. In fact, this should be recommended reading for everyone managing AI projects, they’re teams and of course cybersecurity professionals.

So, remember the hype cycle for AI peaked after OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in November 2022? The amazing explosion of ChatGPT’s adoption rate overshadow very basic security flaws within AI systems. Justin is addressing to reveal how AI services are not secure by the companies who are heavily promoting their AI services. And this allows for exploits to thrive since all the attention continues to focus on AI’s hype cycle.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, Justin Hutchens, The Language of Deception

Education Innovation Reading

Latest Read: Long Life Learning

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 24, 2024

Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet by Michelle R. Weise.

A Fulbright scholar, Michelle holds a Masters and PhD in English from Stanford University and is a former Senior Higher Education Research Fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute.

She was the former Chief Innovation Officer of Strada Institute for the Future of Work. Today Michelle is principal at her startup Rise and Design.

Michelle is delivering insightful messages for educators, legislators, and anyone interested in the future of jobs across America. While the primary audience is higher education, K12 and legislators should pay attention.

So, everyone above must learn how our global future will require new skills that continue to emerge. AI is certainly hijacking this process even faster that Michelle addressed.

However she does firmly plant the need for educators, industry, and government to collaborate to secure America’s continued economic growth. We must all embrace change at a rapid pace impacting work. In order to stay afloat we must embrace continued learning. So, Long Life Learning reveals the rapid change we are experience today. Simply put the pace has increased since the pandemic. As a result, new learning models are needed starting in K12, expanding into higher education, and culminating in her ‘long life learning’ model.

Tags jobs, Long Life Learning, Michelle R. Weise, Walmart, Workforce

Education Innovation Reading

Latest Read: Open Talent

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 17, 2024

Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Workforce to Solve Your Biggest Challenges by John Winsor and Jin H. Paik

John holds an MBA from the University of Denver. He is Founder and CEO of Open Assembly and visiting Executive at Harvard. He was the former chief innovation officer of Havas.

Jin holds a master’s degree from Harvard University. In addition, he is a co-founder of Altruistic and research scientist at Harvard. He was previously the Head of Labs at the Data, Digital, and Design Institute and founding General Manager at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard.

John and Jin are certainly delivering a powerful book for organizations. In our post pandemic world, perhaps in fact no greater impact upon the workplace has fundamentally changed the global economy.

While leased office spaces have forever changed, the new normal is hybrid work with AI empowered tools. In fact, by March 2024 most organizations do not yet understand the full impact of AI Agents. These will drastically alter every organization’s idea of work. Perhaps just like the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 across the globe. 100 million users within 60 days. AI Agents may have a similar impact upon workflows.

Tags Jin H. Paik, John Winsor, Open Talent, Work, Workforce

Artificial Intelligence Education Reading

Latest Read: Grokking Machine Learning

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 10, 2024

Grokking Machine Learning by Luis Serrano. He holds a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and PhD in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.

Luis worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire de Combinatoire et d’Informatique Mathématique at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Today Luis is a research scientist in quantum artificial intelligence at Zapata Computing. He previously worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Google, Lead Artificial Intelligence Educator at Apple, and Head of Content in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Udacity.

The opening chapters provide a good overview to Machine Learning before addressing linear regression. As with previous Grokking series books (below) readers will certainly be learning about supervised algorithms that classifying data.

However Luis is also addressing a much needed understanding of established methods to simplify data clean up in order to make reporting actionable. Likewise, an understanding the basics of Python will make this book’s examples easily understood. To his credit, Luis’ feels that anyone with high school algebra will be able to understand his book.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, Grokking Machine Learning, Luis Serrano, machine learning

Artificial Intelligence Education Reading

Latest Read: AI and the Future of Education

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 3, 2024

AI and the Future of Education: Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Priten Shah.

He holds an M.ED. in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard. Priten is CEO of Pedagogy.Cloud and founder of the civic-focused nonprofit United 4 Social Change.

Priten is addressing the impact of AI upon education in mid 2023. The date is important due to the weekly advances in the AI industry and a near frantic desire for teachers in K12 and Higher Education to understand the impact upon teaching.

Perhaps the challenge to all authors addressing AI’s impact across education is the need for educational systems to protect students while trying to understand the security and privacy impacts AI has upon schools that must meet those privacy mandates for children.

Then again, within the last six to eight months the AI Agents announced by OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft will certainly be viewed by teachers as a threat. It may surprise many that when teachers are requesting access to Microsoft CoPilot, they overlook this AI’s agent functions that will be available to them 24/7 for every class they are enrolled in and includes agent functions for academic support.

Tags AI, Artificial Intelligence, Future of Education, Priten Shah