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Latest Read: HBR’s 10 Must Reads on AI

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on AI by Harvard Business Review. If you read nothing else on AI and machine learning, start here.

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on AI by Harvard Business Review

This new release (September 2023) is certainly providing the most insightful articles by Tom Davenport, Marco Iansiti, Tsedal Neeley, and Ajay Agrawal. Each article is presented with three ideas: Problem, Causes, and Solutions.

The collected insights provided a cornerstone for understanding AI and the methods to deploy across any organization.

Perhaps ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI by Ethan Mollick is a perfect article to convey how this service, less than 18th months old is this generation’s Netscape Navigator killer app.

The most important lesson: several articles have been expanded into published books that I find to be must reads. Organizations must digest their writing in order to fully understand the current world of AI.

To that end, today’s highly connected internet is much more robust than it was 30 years ago when the browser appeared and forever changed the world. But threats by foreign countries and organizations that push misinformation will confuse many. That is the difference to Netscape’s introduction.

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Latest Read: Strategy in the Digital Age

Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation by Michael Lenox. Michael is professor of business administration at the University of Virginia. He was also a visiting professor at Oxford University, Harvard University, and Stanford University.

Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation by Michael Lenox

Michael holds a Bachelors in systems engineering from University of Virginia, Masters in Systems Engineering from University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Technology Management and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Without a doubt, digital transformation is certainly addressing more than just servers to gather and process data. Michael is focusing upon how digital technologies are creating innovative services and products for organizations. However he is accurately able to outline how organizations can establish new competitive advantages.

So, to be successful organizational leaders much understand how to create value. Strategy in the Digital Age is certainly outlining critical needs to address to ensure the larger impacts of a complete roadmap for organizations. Many will ask how do I utilize digital technology to create value and improve our organization?

Michael is even sharing how his role at Virginia allowed for the University to engage in a successful transformation for the School of Business.

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Latest Read: The Deep Learning Revolution

The Deep Learning Revolution by Terrence Sejnowski. He holds both a Masters and PhD in physics from Princeton University. Today he is a professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory.

The Deep Learning Revolution by Terrence Sejnowski

He is also Professor of Biological Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Neurosciences, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego where he is Director of the Institute for Neural Computation.

Terry was an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1991 to 2018. In addition, he founded Neural Computation, a journal in neural networks and computational neuroscience published by the MIT Press. He is also the President of the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation.

In fact, Terry is only one of three living people to have been elected to all four of the national academies: The National Academy of Medicine, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors.

So, Terry is sharing his story how deep learning began and is today used in driverless cars to personal assistants. Deep Learning is changing our lives and transforming the world. Deep learning can play poker better than professional poker players and has also defeated a world champion at Go. It should be noted when Google’s Deep Mind defeated Ke Jie, it served as China’s Sputnik moment.

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Latest Read: Superhuman Innovation

Superhuman Innovation: Transforming Business with Artificial Intelligence by Chris Duffey.

Superhuman Innovation: Transforming Business with Artificial Intelligence by Chris Duffey

Chris is Adobe’s creative director. He previously worked for healthcare communications network Sudler & Hennessey.

I found this book a bit of a challenge after learning it was a recommended technology book from CES 2020. However digesting via audiobook provided a twist as the book is actually an ‘interview’ with an AI Chatbot. So, my immediate reaction was “what is the hallucination rate” and how will mislead the reader? The reader would expect an Adobe employee to provide striking visualizations and Chris does not disappoint.

The opening chapters simply trace the historical development of AI and the impact to business. The focus of this book is for business to adopt AI. There was also a marketing driven SUPER framework introduced that I have never found anywhere else in my readings. This is introduced as an invention of his book title. This is a push to establish SUPER: Speed (facilitating work processes), Understanding (revealing and mastering deep insights), Performance (customization of delivery to customers), Experimentation (the iterative process of reinvention and feedback) and Results (tangible, measurable and optimizable results).

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Latest Read: Chatter

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross. Ethan holds a a PhD in psychology from Columbia University. He is professor of psychology and management at the University of Michigan.

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross

In addition, Ethan is the Director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. He is published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science.

This is certainly mandatory reading. The praise attributed to Ethan’s effort is far and wide. And worth every endorsement. Within the opening chapters you will learn why so many have made critical praise to Ethan’s research. He warns that giving in to negative self-talk (what Ethan defines as Chatter) will certainly tank our health, alter our moods, place strain on our connections both at work and at home. Ultimately Chatter will cause us to fold under pressure.

In fact, Ethan is delivering his message in plain english. Actually I really enjoyed his little league baseball bat story. We all have a voice in our head. And yes, we all talk to ourselves. More often than not we find our inner critic. Ethan expands upon the silent conversations we have within ourselves. So, within the opening chapter we begin to understand why we talk to ourselves.

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