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Latest Read: Introduction to Generative AI

Introduction to Generative AI by Numa Dhamani and Maggie Engler.

Introduction to Generative AI by Numa Dhamani and Maggie Engler

Numa holds degrees in Physics and Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. She has served as the Principal Investigator on the United States Department of Defense’s research program. Today she is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Kungfu.ai.
Numa is an adjunct instructor at Georgetown University.

Maggie holds Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She is a safety team member at Inflection AI. Previously Maggie was a Data Science Fellow at the Center for New Data and a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter. Maggie is also an adjunct instructor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information.

Perhaps this book should be required reading for any organization’s AI planning team. Yes, your AI staff should have this well understood. However Numa and Maggie convey a grounded understanding of large language models (LLMs). In addition, you will understand the new rush for integrating generative AI (Microsoft and OpenAI) into your organizational workflows. To be fair, they also are addressing organizational benefits, risks, and limitations.

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Latest Read: The Language of Deception

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

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.

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Latest Read: Grokking Machine Learning

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.

Grokking Machine Learning by Luis Serrano

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.

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Latest Read: AI and the Future of Education

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

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.

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Latest Read: Future Ready

Future ready: The four pathways to capturing digital value by Stephanie Woerner, Peter Weill, and Ina Sebastian.

Future ready : the four pathways to capturing digital value by Stephanie Woerner, Peter Weill, and Ina Sebastian

Stephanie is director and a research scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Stanford. She has done presentations and workshops for top management teams and boards of large global firms, been a subject matter expert for the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, and moderated a number of panels, including one on the future of financial services for the Federal Reserve.

Peter is professor of Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and chairman emeritus of the MIT CISR. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from NYU. He has also published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and academic outlets. Ziff Davis recognized Weill as #24 of “The Top 100 Most Influential People in IT” and the highest-ranked academic.

Ina is a research scientist at the MIT CISR. She holds a PhDs in International Management from the University of Hawaii and is published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive, and academic outlets.

So, can you create a future-ready organization? Seems to be the hot topic in the new ChatGPT age of AI. Stephanie, Peter, and Ina are indeed addressing the real world of Schneider Electric’s IoT growth, CEMEX, WeChat, or even Fidelity Investments. Each has made a successful digital transformation to become as future ready as Amazon Web Services.