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Latest Read: Data for All

Data for All by John K. Thompson. Today John is Global Head of AI at Ernst & Young. He was an executive partner at Gartner, and he was responsible for the advanced analytics business unit of the Dell Software Group. He holds an MBA from DePaul University.

Data for All by John K. Thompson

In fact, John has very extensive data advisory experience including: Curriculum Advisory Board Member, AI Bootcamp Host with The Mark Cuban Foundation, Advisory Board Member Masters & Undergraduate Programs in Business Analytics at The University of Texas at Austin, Advisory Board Member Masters in Data Science Program Oklahoma State University, Executive Advisory Board: AI, Data Science & Computer Science at Oakland University, Nittany AI Challenge: AI for Good at Penn State University, and Advisory Board Member Dearborn AI Research (DAIR) Center at The University of Michigan.

So, data brokers are firms who buy and sell your data. In fact, you do not receive a single penny for all of your online activity. Data Brokers somehow are the owners of your online activity and certainly profit from your web browsing, e-commerce transactions and app activity including notifications. Remember Facebook posted $116 Billion in revenue for 2023.

John is outlining how your data is harvested and ultimately how you are exploited. He is providing a valuable resource to empower users to learn how their parties monetize your data. Many readers may simply be unaware that all your online actions create permanent records of your activity.

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Latest Read: HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2024

HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2024: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2024: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

Perhaps no better way to close 2023 than by digesting HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2024. These articles are a great overview to insights by authors over the last year. Digital transformation is the most impactful as organizations are jumping into AI in markets still impacted by the pandemic.

This actually leads with a challenge for leaders. In “Managers Can’t Do It All” the combination of reengineering, digitization, AI initiatives and the lingering pandemic remote work efforts, the idea of what any “manager” role today has been completely altered.

Organizations must now realize that hiring new managers into your organization require making teams more successful than in the past, prior to the pandemic. their role in coaching has also dramatically changed.

To succeed, organizations must re-define a manager’s role. Case studies with Standard Chartered, IBM, and Telstra reveal these organizations help managers develop new skills, alter long standing processes yet also redefine roles and responsibilities in order to strengthen new organizational priorities.

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Latest Read: Gödel, Escher, Bach

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter. Douglas is a cognitive and computer scientist. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oregon.

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter

This book published in 1979 won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award for Science.

There have been so many references to this book that it remains difficult to compile. So, in short, Melanie Mitchell’s book Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans outlines her collaboration with Douglas in writing CopyCat.

Since publication 45 years ago, I would certainly suggest listening to the The Episodic Podcast book review episode. I found that listening to a chapter review before reading the chapter helped me digest Douglas’ insights. Then after re-listened to the chapter for a full understanding. While this is certainly rare to recommend, it helped me better understand this book.

I have been digesting a series of resources regarding this book. In Google’s podcast interview with Melanie, she acknowledges visiting Google’s AI team with Douglas and learning his book is required reading.

So, Douglas is exploring the work of logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. He expands beyond their creative concepts in mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence. In fact, Douglas is revealing his analysis is actually not about their amazingly creative work, but instead is illustrating how cognition emerges.

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Latest Read: Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker

Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker: Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What to Do about Them by Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and Hyrum Anderson.

Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker: Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What to Do about Them by Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and Hyrum Anderson

Ram Shankar holds a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. For over 10 years he has worked as a Data Cowboy at Microsoft in the Azure Security data science team.

Hyrum holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. He is a former Principal architect at Microsoft and co-found er of CAMLIS. Today Hyrum is CTO of Robust Intelligence.

Ram Shanker and Hyrum introduce adversarial machine learning, the dedicated field launching cyber attacks upon AI. While this is a most timely book to release, it should have been published twenty years ago so the impact could be well understood.

Perhaps it will clash with Wall Street and Silicon Valley desire to overcome slumping known PC sales and be the spark to drive billions in revenue for a new class of technology companies while reinforcing the market cap of established companies. So, let the voice of Ram Shanker and Hyrum, who attack AI machines for a living provide deep insights. In fact, most of us do not consider the civil liberty implications of attacking AI systems.

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Latest Read: The Technology Fallacy

The Technology Fallacy: How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation by Gerald C. Kane, Anh Nguyen Phillips, Jonathan Copulsky and Garth R. Andrus.

The Technology Fallacy: How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation by Gerald C. Kane, Anh Nguyen Phillips, and Jonathan Copulsky

Gerald holds a PhD in Information Systems from Emory University. He is a Professor at the University of Georgia. Anh holds a BA in Humanities from the University of Central Florida. She is a Global CEO Program Research Director at Deloitte. Jonathan holds an MBA from Stanford University. He is Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University. Garth holds a PhD in HR from Vanderbilt University and today is a principal with Deloitte. He a professor of organization studies at both Vanderbilt University and George Washington University.

The Technology Fallacy provides deep insights of more than 16,000 individuals surveyed by MIT Sloan and Deloitte measuring the challenges of digital disruption. In addition, interviews with managers at Walmart, Google, and Salesforce reveal digital disruption will be ongoing and the average worker will experience numerous waves of disruption.

Gerald, Anh, Jonathan and Garth provide organizational leaders a guide to survive the oncoming waves. However to their benefit, leaders need not concern themselves of a technology deep dive. The focus of this book is how organizations must adapt to not only embrace the power of technology, but also stay competitive. For leaders digital disruption is focused upon their employees and the impact digital transformation will make upon their organization’s workflows. Perhaps best stated, only implementing the correct digital technologies for your organization will certainly not be enough to find success.

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