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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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Latest Read: The AI-Powered Workplace

The AI-Powered Workplace: How Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Messaging Platforms Are Defining the Future of Work by Ronald Ashri.

The AI-Powered Workplace: How Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Messaging Platforms Are Defining the Future of Work by Ronald Ashri

Ronald holds a PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence / Agent-based systems) from The University of Southampton. Today Ronald is Chief Product and Technology Officer at OpenDialog AI. He previously was Co-Founder, CTO and CEO at GreenShoot Labs. Ronald specializes in AI systems design, knowledge management, agent-based systems, and conversational AI.

The AI-Powered Workplace is broken into three parts: Understanding AI, The applications of AI in the Workplace, and building Your AI-Powered Workplace. This book should certainly be a primer for those not familiar with AI.

Part 1 chapters 1-5 introduce AI concepts and explains for new users what AI is and how does it predict. Ronald is providing a solid outline regarding the early history of AI. I appreciate his reference to AI Winters by stating ‘AI goes into hiding’ which was fun to read. Readers will also appreciate how he compares the role of computing and technology in our lives as a pivot to the growing needs for AI services. At this point Ronald also begins diving into his area of expertise, AI agents. There are certainly deep insights regarding Agents within this opening part of his book.

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Latest Read: Beyond Digital

Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future by Paul Leinwand and Mahadeva Matt Mani.

Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future by Paul Leinwand

Paul is Global Managing Director with Strategy& and is a principal with PwC US. He is an adjunct professor of strategy at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and has served as an adviser to many nonprofit organizations. He holds a Masters in Management from Kellogg.

Mahadeva Matt Mani leads the PwC/Strategy& transformation platform. He is also a principal with PwC US. Matt holds a Masters in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University.

In Beyond Digital, Paul and Matt take readers on a deep dive across 12 organizations to learn how to succeed in navigating the challenges of digital transformation. And by digital, they address the following: the internet is 50 years old, IBM’s PC was introduced 40 years ago, Apple is 45 while even Google is 25. Getting ‘to’ digital is not enough anymore. especially in a post pandemic world. Paul and Matt are focusing on the new forms of digital competitive advantages. Your organization may feel like it is in the game, but perhaps you’re on the sideline. Some organizations may even be watching from the stands. they just do not realize how they missed their digital transformation.

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Latest Read: The New Automation Mindset

The New Automation Mindset: The Leadership Blueprint for the Era of AI-For-All by Vijay Tella.

The New Automation Mindset: The Leadership Blueprint for the Era of AI-For-All by Vijay Tella

Vijay Tella is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Workato. He was the former Vice President, Mobile Video at Skype, and Chief Executive Officer at Qik. Vijay holds a MS in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles

The goal of this book is certainly to help organizational leaders understand automation as a blueprint for embracing AI. In fact, a great start to this book begins with the impression of AI and why 90% of AI deployments fail. This will obviously grab the attention of orgnaizational leaders.

Then Vijay addresses Toast. Yes, the credit card service deployed in restaurants, not the one you have with butter at breakfast. This is a service I have deployed and Vijay documents how different Toast is today for restaurants since the pandemic.

In fact, Toast was forced to pivot during the pandemic and as a result became a solid performer and model for other AI vendors to follow. In his outline “Many Restaurants Would Have Been Toast Without Toast” shows the insights recognized and implemented. Vijay returns to Toast’s pivot in the closing chapters.

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