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Latest Read: I, Human

I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Tomas holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires, M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and Ph.D. in Business Psychology from University College London. He has taught at New York University, Columbia, and Harvard. Today he is the Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup.

In the book I, Human the impact of artificial intelligence to improve how we live and work is from the perspective of a Psychologist, not a software engineer. So questions about how AI will alienate us are at the forefront of this book.

An example is the embrace of AI dating apps by today’s younger Generation Z or GenAlpha. Big Box retailers have deployed AI to not only highlight products but also track user behavior. And thankfully, Tomas is revealing how rogue actors and criminals are using AI to persuade our political views with social media tools including Twitter bots spreading fake news.

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Latest Read: Revenge of the Tipping Point

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell.

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm holds a BA in history from the University of Toronto in 1984. He began as a staff writer at The Washington Post and today has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996 and is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.

Actually I find it a bit amazing to consider that I read Malcom’s book The Tipping Point in August 2007. As amazing as may seem, The Tipping Point was on the NYTimes Bestseller list for eight years. This was the first of eight books by him that I have read.

Now 25 years later he has published a follow up which is reframing some of his original stories. As always he crafts unique points of interest, discovers overlaps, and presents them in very intriguing ways. Malcolm is also in fact, now tracing the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. Perhaps this is the book that many readers must simply see as an indicator of social engineering. While I continue to struggle to effectively communicate the risks of social engineering on computers, Malcolm is presenting this risk in a much more eloquent manner.

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Latest Read: Co-Intelligence

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick.

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

Ethan holds a BS from Harvard University, MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and PhD in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from MIT Sloan School of Management. Today he is an Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is Co-Director of the Generative AI Labs at Wharton. Ethan is recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence.

Today Ethan is a well respected educator addressing AI’s potential specifically for education. Since the arrival of ChatGPT, consumers for the first time used an AI tools that changed their lives. Over the last two years this has caused a global change as the world is wrestling with this technology and what it means for humanity, education, our daily lives, and of course what it means for work and government.

He is actually urging everyone to engage AI as co-worker, co-teacher and coach. Wide ranging, hugely thought-provoking and optimistic, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era. The real view from Ethan is that AI is a co-worker and should not be not be viewed as another program. His key message is collaboration which will enhance productivity and creativity. However to be fair, he is also acknowledging we must avoid becoming over-reliance on AI.

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Latest Read: Artificial General Intelligence

Artificial General Intelligence by Julian Togelius.

Artificial General Intelligence by Julian Togelius

Julian holds a BA in Philosophy, Computer Science, and Psychology from Lund University, MSc from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Essex. He was an associate professor at the Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen. Today he is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University.

This book is a wide overview of the concept of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) which predicts AI will hold the ability to understand, learn, and apply knowledge like humans.

I certainly found this book very enjoyable to read about where the general direction of a robust AI will impact society. There are of course examples today including Google’s Go which not only defeated the world’s greatest Go player, but generated moves that caught all humans off guard. Yet that same AI system cannot beat you in Tetris.

Dzejla and Emin are certainly providing a complex topic in a friendly manner to make complex concepts easy to understand. Readers will learn about deploying the correct type of database solution for your organization’s applications. This was a very enjoyable book to read.

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Latest Read: Digital Empires

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology by Anu Bradford.

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology by Anu Bradford

Anu holds LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School, and both a Master of Laws and Licentiate from the University of Helsinki. Today Anu serves as Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Today she is Director of the European Legal Studies Center at Columbia Law School and former assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

This is one of the important books everyone should be reading today in order to understand how the world is operating, the political and economic shifts underway and even how AI will influence the global economy in the coming century.

Anu is providing a very deep analysis of competing regulatory frameworks among the United States, China, and the European Union as they strive to govern technology and digital markets. Each is certainly shaping their efforts to support their global ambitions.

This is beyond business regulations and rather is contributing to their plans for dominating global digital economic market. And of course the digital market means AI.

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