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Latest Read: Working with AI

Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration by Tom Davenport and Steven Miller. Tom Davenport holds the President’s Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College.

Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration by Thomas H. Davenport, Steven M. Miller

Tom’s vast experience includes directing research centers at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, CSC Index, and the Accenture Institute of Strategic Change. Tom holds a B.A. in sociology from Trinity University and M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University.

Working with AI breaks certainly down misinformation that AI will kill jobs. In fact, a series of case studies reveal how AI adoption has led to increased hiring. This is revealed by new insights and efficiencies AI tools are delivering to organizations.

Will AI remove some jobs? Yes of course, however the frenzy of AI being an apocalyptic job destroyer is lost in today’s movies and Netflix shows. To be more accurate, in 2023 more organizations are being held to account by their boards regarding the adoption of AI tools.

The book is revealing how AI alters the way organizations can change long standing workflows. This allows a reallocation of some tasks but not entire jobs. The book is a series of 29 business case studies.

Indeed the concluding chapters address a wider view of AI in the workplace including the platforms needed to succeed. This certainly makes it possible to experience real world deployments and the direct impacts AI tools have upon the organizations today.

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Latest Read: Think for Yourself

Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence by Vikram Mansharamani. Vikram was a Lecturer at Harvard University and also previously lectured at Yale University.

Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence by Vikram Mansharamani

He holds a Ph.D. and Masters from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and a Masters in Political Science also from MIT. He holds a BA from Yale University.

In our AI world Vikram pushes the pause button, for good reason. We have lost the ability to think for ourselves. He provides solid examples of AI gone wrong. As indicated the bookcover of a car driving into a river is a true story.

On the island of Sardinia, the town began erecting signs “Do not follow the directions of Google Maps.” 144 drivers were requesting ‘rescue’ services. As a result of blindly following the AI mapping application.

The message is also that we must question AI. In fact, we must outright challenge the so called experts, their products, and how they position their services. While it may work for one service, it will certainly not work for all.

Vikram rightfully calls out the so called experts. They live in their bubble and fail to consider the wider impacts across our world, results can even include death.

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Latest Read: HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers

HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers by Harvard Business Review. The ‘HBR Guide’ series offers articles addressed in multiple sections. This is not a single author’s interpretation.

HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers

Published in January 2023 this Guide is critical for managers regardless of organization, vertical market, or seniority within executive teams. In fact, prior to the pandemic AI had already shifted the fundamentals of business and society. Many to this day never saw it coming and this Guide is mandatory.

While business as usual is often overstated, our post pandemic world shifted so rapidly and radically, that organizations will simply fail if they do not adopt. In more and more business cases, the adopt or die mindset will continue to become painfully evident as consolidation, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures (MAD) only accelerate via AI solutions.

For managers the Introduction is aiming squarely at your future: How AI Will Redefine Management is not to be taken lightly. However in the presented articles the adoption of which cannot be overstated, miss the fundamentals of AI changing your organization, and you might as well begin refreshing your resume. For the CEO or President, this will empower you to drive change long desired but slowed by organization’s noise. And you will have to address your supporters, detractors and fence sitters to get the AI ball rolling.

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Latest Read: Succeeding with AI

Succeeding with AI: How to make AI work for your business
by Veljko Krunic. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Colorado Boulder. Today he is CEO of Health Saver AI and holds two AI patients.

Succeeding with AI: How to make AI work for your business by Veljko Krunic

Based upon the AI books I have been reading, none certainly addresses the business side of AI. Veljko is writing this book for business leaders. At first glance one may believe technology project managers would be a target audience. This is perfect for business leaders and analysts with no AI programming.

For any business seeking to define investments for data driven decision making, this is a worth title to read. The approach is completely a business approach to AI projects, how they are different and when to fail quickly early in a project.

In addition, Veljko’s underlying message for business teams is the profit is the resulting data outcomes, as it seems almost every business seeking to gain an upper hand have already kickstarted small AI projects. Veljko certainly helps leaders understand the foundation requirements (developers, and data scientists) required to succeed.

The hard requirements for AI if overlooked, will not be enough to prove a business case and result in wasted investments. This is along the lines of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do by Erik Larson.

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Latest Read: GANs in Action

GANs in Action: Deep learning with Generative Adversarial Networks by Jakub Langr and Vladimir Bok. Vladimir is a Data Product Manager at Intent. In addition, I really welcome his statement: Why I Donate All of My Book’s Proceeds to Girls Who Code. Jakub is Co-Found of Hypermile, a UK startup deploying AI across transportation solutions.

GANs in Action by Jakub Langr and Vladimir Bok

Jakub and Vladimir have certainly written a wonderful book on machine learning algorithms that generate realistic imaging. However, this book is really intended for readers who already have some experience with machine learning and neural networks.

Whereas many consumers view new imaging services as a kind of magic, super computing power delivered by AI. There are indeed large machine learning datasets in play that even make this imaging possible.

GANs in Action is a very worthy followup to John Kelleher’s Machine Learning, Melanie Mitchell’s excellent book Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, and Sean Gerrish’s How Smart Machines Think. Each author is in fact, addressing in various scales, the introduction to Neural Networks and GANs. Thankfully, Jakub and Vladimir have taken the necessary next step in delivering a wonderful introduction and coding deep dive to GANs.

In fact, for many consumers the Grokking series of books are a must read. Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People by Aditya Bhargava and Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms: Understand and apply the core algorithms of deep learning and artificial intelligence by Rishal Hurbans. Thus, both are wonderfully illustrated books to begin anyone’s journey into understanding Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

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