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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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Latest Read: Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets

Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets by Dzejla Medjedovic and Emin Tahirovic.

Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets by Dzejla Medjedovic, and Emin Tahirovic

Dzejla holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and currently serves as a Vice President of Data at Social Explorer. Emin holds a MS in Theoretical Computer Science from Goethe University and a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a faculty member at the International University of Sarajevo. Together, Dzejla and Emin are leveraging their expertise in algorithms, data structures, and statistics to provide insights into managing massive datasets.

We now live is a world beyond big data. Today data lakes at petabyte and exabyte scale are common. Zettabyte cannot be very far away. Unlike traditional data warehouses, data lakes in fact accommodate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from various sources.

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: Judgement Calls

Judgement Calls: Twelve stories of big decisions and the teams that got them right by Thomas H. Davenport.

Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right by Thomas H. Davenport

Tom Davenport holds a Master’s degree in Sociology and a PhD in Sociology from Harvard. He is Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College.

He is a Research Fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte’s Analytics and AI Practice. As a former visiting Professor at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and the Harvard Business School, Tom was well positioned as Co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics.

In exploring critical decision-making processes within organizations, Tom is presenting twelve case studies. Judgement Calls reveal how teams address complex decisions and how to improve those outcomes. Key components include collaboration, data-driven insights, and effective leadership. Readers will discover those frameworks and methodologies which can improve your organization’s decision-making by embracing a structured processes.

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Latest Read: Human + Machine

Human + Machine, Updated and Expanded: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson

Human + Machine, Updated and Expanded: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson

Paul holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He is Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Accenture. H. James Wilson holds a BA from College of the Holy Cross and a MA from Boston College. He is Global Managing Director of Thought Leadership and Technology Research at Accenture Research.

Paul and James are in fact providing a framework for understanding how organizations can integrate AI into business operations and the transformation of work processes. This edition is an updated and expanded edition for their initial publication with Generative AI as their focus. Based upon Paul and James research with more than 1,000 organizations, they reveals how organization are using AI to strategically jump their competition on innovation which drives profitability.

Their insights are providing how Generative AI allows businesses to create entirely new content and unlocking opportunities for innovation. At the same time they see how AI is generally unknown as to the impact of how work will be redefined. They see how businesses do not understand the basics of AI and how it will transform their business. They also address the misconceptions about AI. It is very interesting to see how they also found research that they see the key is to unlock value by having AI support the human in their workflows.

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Latest Read: The Alignment Problem

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian.

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian

Brian holds a BA in Computer Science and Philosophy from Brown University. And holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington. He is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His focus is cognitive science and human-compatible AI.

He received the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication for his work on The Alignment Problem. Yes, I fully agree this is a wonderful book to read.

His previous books include The Most Human Human and Algorithms to Live By. Both address AI technology and the human experience. When AI services (ChatGPT, CoPilot, Dalle 3, etc.) attempt to execute tasks that result in errors, ethical and potential risks emerge. So, researchers call this the alignment problem.

At the book’s core, Brian is examining ethical and safety issues as machine learning technologies are both advancing into society more rapidly than projected. Perhaps the key element is the ability for machine learning services to execute tasks on behalf of humans across almost every aspect of our lives. This also markets from education, retail, supply chain, and energy to name just a few.

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