Flattering God
/God is never flattered by our sanctified exhaustion. -Calvin Miller
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
This Chapter of Your Life
/If the present chapter of your life is a course you are taking, what would an appropriate title for it be? What are you meant to be learning in it? What is it that you need to unlearn for this course? What is it time for you to let go of? What unlived life is now there in the shadows?
William Bridges, The Way of Transition
15 Things people are trying to get AI to do–from solving crime to detecting wildfires
/Can A.I. solve rape cases? To find out, a Cleveland professor programmed a computer to analyze thousands of police reports -Cleveland.com
Some in the (book) publishing world are already experimenting with AI programs in areas such as marketing, advertising, audiobook production and even writing, weighing their promise of supporting work done by humans against the threat that the machines ma. -NY Times
AI-powered technology may also help revitalize endangered languages, including by processing and storing languages and identifying language patterns. Additionally, AI may help accomplish these tasks at unprecedented speeds or just in time, before an endangered language goes extinct. -Inside Higher Ed
Many in publishing are taking action to protect their work. The Authors Guild recently organized a petition signed by thousands of writers demanding that companies seek their approval before using their work to train A.I. programs. New York Times
Text With Jesus replicates an instant messaging platform, with biblical figures impersonated by the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT. The launching of the app stirred reactions ranging from amusement to accusations of blasphemy and heresy. -Religious News Service
Can ChatGPT become a content moderator? The technique is still not as effective as experienced human moderators, OpenAI found. But it outperforms moderators that have had light training.-Semafor
Can A.I. Detect Wildfires Faster Than Humans? California Is Trying to Find Out. -New York Times
AI providers begin to explore new terrain: chatbots in salary negotiations – Axios
Coca-Cola launches beverage created with the help of artificial intelligence -Food Dive
Get Ready for AI Chatbots That Do Your Boring Chores - Wired
Alexa, will generative AI make you more useful? -Semafor
Can AI predict, and try to prevent, homelessness? -NPR
ChatGPT was allegedly used to generate an apology statement about The Lord of the Rings: Gollum - TechRadar
Best Free & Paid AI Resume Builders: Build a Resume in Minutes - Tech.co
Multinationals turn to generative AI to manage supply chains - Financial Times
It’s All in the Attitude
/Several years ago on an extremely hot day, a crew of men were working on the road bed of the railroad when they were interrupted by a slow moving train. The train ground to a stop and a window in the last car – which incidentally was custom make and air conditioned – was raised. A booming, friendly voice called out, “Dave, is that you?” Dave Anderson, the crew chief called back, “Sure is, Jim, and it’s really good to see you.” With that pleasant exchange, Dave Anderson was invited to join Jim Murphy, the president of the railroad, for a visit. For over an hour the men exchanged pleasantries and then shook hands warmly as the train pulled out.
Dave Anderson’s crew immediately surrounded him and to a man expressed astonishment that he knew Jim Murphy, the president of the railroad as a personal friend. Dave then explained that over 20 years earlier he and Jim Murphy had started to work for the railroad on the same day. One of the men, half-jokingly and half seriously asked Dave why he was still working out in the hot sun and Jim Murphy had gotten to be president. Rather wistfully, Dave explained, “twenty-three years ago I went to work for $1.75 an hour and Jim Murphy went to work for the railroad.”
Zig Ziglar, See You at the Top
9 articles about AI & Academic Scholarship
/AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in research papers – Nature
Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting - Retraction Watch
Spitting out the AI Gobbledegook sandwich: a suggestion for publishers - Dorothy V. M. Bishop blog
AI destroys principles of authorship. A scary case from educational technology publishing. - Marco Kalz blog
Artificial Intelligence–Generated Research in the Literature: Is It Real or Is It Fraud? - Mary Ann Liebert Publishers
ChatGPT used in peer reviews of Australian Research Council grant applications – itnews
As scientists explore AI-written text, journals hammer out policies – Science.org
Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect – Wired
Draft law in China sets out penalties for AI-aided academic writing – University World News
We’re All Lousy Self-Evaluators
/A stranger walks into a room and sits down behind a table. He picks up a piece of paper and read aloud a generic-sounding weather report. He completes his “report” in about 90 seconds and walks out of the room.
Next, you’re asked to guess his IQ.
You’re part of a psychological experiment, and you object to the absurdity of the request. I don’t know anything about that guy. He just came into a room and read a report. It wasn’t even his report- you gave it to him to read! How am I supposed to know his IQ?
Reluctantly, you make a wild guess. Separately, Fake Weatherman is asked to guess his own IQ. Who made a better guess?
Amazingly, you did, even though you know nothing about Fake Weatherman. Two (German) psychologists … conducted this experiment, and they found that the strangers’ IQ predictions were better than the predictions of those whose IQ was being predicted- about 66 percent more accurate.
To be clear, it’s not so much that you’re a brilliant predictor; it’s that he’s a lousy self-evaluator. We’re all lousy self-evaluators. College students do a superior job predicting the longevity of their roommates’ romantic relationships than their own.
Savor, for a moment, the preposterousness of these findings. Fake Weatherman has all the information, and you’ve got none. He’s got decades of data- year’s worth of grades, college entrance exams cores, job evaluations, and more. Fake Weatherman should be the worlds foremost expert on Fake Weatherman!
Chip & Dan Heath, Switch
12 Media Webinars this week about AI, journalism, storytelling, NIL, and more
/Mon, Oct 9 - The Darkening Tide of Digital Repression and the Risks of Journalistic Reluctance 2023
What: This seminar examines why journalists often fail to take the necessary information security steps to better protect themselves, their sources, and their stories, despite ongoing threats to journalism.
Who: Jennifer R. Henrichsen, Assistant Professor at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University
When: 3:10 pm, Pacific
Where: Microsoft Teams
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Washington State University
Mon, Oct 9 - Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI: Empowering a Deeper Conversation
What: Navigating the positive and effective uses of AI and generative AI within K-12 school settings. Seven essential guidelines recommended for school superintendents and school leaders when implementing actionable steps and policies around AI and generative AI will be described.
Who: Matthew Friedman currently serves as the Superintendent of Schools in the Quakertown Community School District in Pennsylvania; Kelly May-Vollmar is the Superintendent of Desert Sands Unified School District, California; David Miyashiro is Superintendent of Cajon Valley Union School; Pete Just, CETL serves as the Executive Director of the Indiana CTO Council. District, California.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: The School Superintendents Association, The Consortium for School Networking, ClassLink
Tue, Oct 10 - Storytelling for Impact
What: Tips, techniques and tools to help the modern marketer tell better and more impactful stories to activate their audiences around ideas and actions.
Who: Kiersten Hill Director of Nonprofit Solutions for FireSpring
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: FireSpring
Tue, Oct 10 - Boost your reporting with data visualization: a toolkit for journalists
What: The basics of data visualization for journalists. By the end, you'll have everything you need to make your own charts and share them with your audience.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Flourish
Tue, Oct 10 - How ChatGPT Reduces Costs and Time by 70% in Lesson Writing - See a Proof in Action
What: What is the overview of the ChatGPT ecosystem and the tools and plug-ins you can use? What are the learning platforms that can integrate with ChatGPT and reduce your cost? What are the steps to take so ChatGPT can be used to reduce research, writing, and development effort and expenditures? How do you deal with copyright and ownership of the content? What ChatGPT tools can you use in graphics, videos, and animation?
Who: Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com, Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning. He spent 15 years with Coopers & Lybrand in the areas of management consulting and implementation of learning technology solutions.
When: 12 noon, Pacific
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenSesame
Wed, Oct 11 - Interpretable AI, algorithmic accountability, and AI ethics
What: What is interpretable machine learning? How can we make algorithms accountable for their decisions? How can we better explain how AI works in critical situations?
Who: Dr Stylianos Kampakis who has more than 10 years of experience in the area of data science working with organisations of all sizes on topics like data strategy and algorithm design.
When:11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Tesseract Academy
Wed, Oct 11 - Athletes as Influencers: Working With NIL, Pros and Retired Players
What: Get best practices and actionable strategies to activate and optimize your athlete influencer relationships.
Who: Giancarlo Morena Sr. Director of Marketing Celsius, Jared Kozinn Head of Sports Partnerships Dansons, Pit Boss; Bob Lynch CEO and Founder SponsorUnited
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: AdWeek
Wed, Oct 11 - Digital Marketing for Nonprofits with HootSuite
What: Gain invaluable insights from industry experts on how to effectively manage and market your social media channels. Learn the dos and don'ts of social media management specifically tailored for nonprofits. Have your pressing questions answered in real time during our open Q&A session following the presentation.
When: 12 noon, Central
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Thu, Oct 12 - Ideas That Will Instantly Grow Your Audience
What: Implementing a simple, but effective SEO strategy that will immediately get you results; Social media tactics that uses Meta’s tools to quickly grow your audience; How to take traditional topics like education and sports and build fast digital-only features that are useful, searchable and shareable; AI approaches that will help you create content efficiently but ethically.
Who: David Arkin, the owner of David Arkin Consulting and Tara Jones, who works for his consulting firm as a digital content strategist.
When: 1 pm, Central
Where: Zoom
Cost: $35
Sponsor: Online Media Campus
Thu, Oct 12 - Telling Hard Stories: 2023 Dart Awards Celebration & Winners' Roundtable
What: Questions of craft, ethics and storytelling, and explore innovative best practices in hard-hitting, humane reporting on violence and tragedy.
Who: Janelle Nanos, Enterprise Reporter, The Boston Globe; Raquel Rutledge, Investigations Editor, The Examination News; Meg Shutzer, Investigative Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker; Connie Walker, Host, Gimlet, a Spotify Studio; John Woodrow Cox, Enterprise Reporter, The Washington Post
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
Thu, Oct 12 - Reading Instruction and AI: New Strategies for the Big Education Challenges of Our Time
What: Experts in the field explore these instructional pain points and offer game-changing guidance for K-12 leaders and educators.
Who: Brandi Renfro Educational Consultant, Promethean; Lauraine Langreo Staff Writer, Education Week; Glenn Kleiman Senior Adviser, Stanford Graduate School of Education; Julie Cohen Charles S. Robb Associate Professor, University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development and others
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Education Week
Fri, Oct 13 - How journalists can (and should) start using AI in their work
What: A practical look at what journalists need to know about AI tools and their applications within journalistic work. Best practices for using AI in the newsroom.
Who: Francesco Marconi, a computational journalist, and the co-founder of AI company Applied XL, formerly R&D Chief at The Wall Street Journal and AI Co-Lead at the Associated Press,
When: 11:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Press Club
10 Quotes Worth Reading about the Future of AI
/Within five years everyone would have access to an AI personal assistant. He referred to this function as a personal chief-of-staff. In this vision, everybody will have access to an AI that knows you, is super smart, and understands your personal history. -Venture Beat
Some experts in generative AI predict that as much as 90% of content on the internet could be artificially generated within a few years. -Bloomberg
Currently, most AI falls under narrow or specialized intelligence — good at one thing but pretty useless otherwise. However, we’re inching closer to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), where machines can understand, learn, and apply knowledge across different domains. -Christophe Atten writing in Medium
It is certainly the case that many new technologies have led to bad outcomes – often the same technologies that have been otherwise enormously beneficial to our welfare. So it’s not that the mere existence of a moral panic means there is nothing to be concerned about. But a moral panic is by its very nature irrational – it takes what may be a legitimate concern and inflates it into a level of hysteria that ironically makes it harder to confront actually serious concerns. And wow do we have a full-blown moral panic about AI right now. -Marc Andreesen writing in a16z
All of the software we’ve ever used was engineered to work backward from an outcome. Its creators wanted to help you find a webpage or play a game or operate a laptop. Perhaps you’ve noticed that the major AI chatbots arrived with almost no user documentation or instructions. A lump of clay doesn’t come with instructions either. That’s what makes this moment unique — and so worthy of species-level #1 foam-finger pride. We humans have created a tool for potentially infinite tasks. Its imperfections are ours to solve — and its powers still ours to shape. -Washington Post
“AI may cause a new Renaissance, perhaps a new phase of the Enlightenment,” Yann LeCun, one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence, suggested earlier this year. AI can already make some existing scientific processes faster and more efficient, but can it do more, by transforming the way science itself is done? Such transformations have happened before. -The Economist
DeepMind’s cofounder says generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI: bots that can carry out tasks you set for them by calling on other software and other people to get stuff done. “Technology is going to be animated. It’s going to have the potential freedom, if you give it, to take actions. It’s truly a step change in the history of our species that we’re creating tools that have this kind of, you know, agency.” -MIT Tech Review
What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World? First it was chess and Go. Now AI can beat us at Diplomacy, the most human of board games. The way it wins offers hope that maybe AI will be a delight. -Wired
People need to develop “rugged flexibility,” to manage change most effectively. In other words, people need to learn how to be strong and hold on to what is most useful but also to bend and adapt to change by embracing what is new. -Venture Beat
Imagine if your brain got 10 times smarter every year over the past decade, and you were on pace for more 10x compounding increases in intelligence over at least the next five. Throw in precise recall of everything you’ve ever learned and the ability to synthesize all those materials instantly in any language. You wouldn’t be just the smartest person to have ever lived — you’d be all the smartest people to have ever lived. (Though not the wisest.) That’s a plausible trajectory of the largest AI models. -Washington Post
We seem to be in what I can only call an “AI lull.” The initial excitement about ChatGPT, which started in January, has receded. Do not be deceived. While the hype and marketing may have died down, at least on the retail side, the AI revolution will continue. -Bloomberg
What Overinvolved parenting does to Kids
/When parents have tended to do the stuff of life for kids—the waking up, the transporting, the reminding about deadlines and obligations, the bill-paying, the question-asking, the decision-making, the responsibility-taking, the talking to strangers, and the confronting of authorities, kids may be in for quite a shock when parents turn them loose in the world of college or work. They will experience setbacks, which will feel to them like failure. Lurking beneath the problem of whatever thing needs to be handled is the student’s inability to differentiate the self from the parent.
When seemingly perfectly healthy but overparented kids get to college and have trouble coping with the various new situations they might encounter—a roommate who has a different sense of “clean,” a professor who wants a revision to the paper but won’t say specifically what is “wrong,” a friend who isn’t being so friendly anymore, a choice between doing a summer seminar or service project but not both—they can have real difficulty knowing how to handle the disagreement, the uncertainty, the hurt feelings, or the decision-making process. This inability to cope—to sit with some discomfort, think about options, talk it through with someone, make a decision—can become a problem unto itself.
Julie Lythcott-Haims, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
A pessimist & an optimist
/A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Sir Winston Churchill
Irritations
/Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -Carl Jung
Please Understand Me
/We want desperately to be understood. But if we put the power to decide whether we are understood into the hands of strangers, strangers who may or may not care about us, strangers who may or may not have our best interest at heart, we may waste our time and resources trying to please them.
Why give people who don’t know us an outsized influence over our lives? Why provide them with control they haven’t earned by getting to know us by respecting us? How much better to find solace in those who truly care! Those people we can trust! People who will stand by us as they are invested in who we are becoming.
Stephen Goforth
A Dozen Recent Articles about AI & Journalism
/How news can leverage artificial intelligence for productivity - Local Media Foundatio
AI and journalism: What's next? - Reuters Institute
Generative AI could make the workflow easier for journalists and make programming more accessible for technically advanced investigations - Columbia Journalism Review
Insider's newsroom will start experimenting with AI - Axios
In the AI Age, The New York Times Wants Reporters to Tell Readers Who They Are - Vanity Fair
AI & News: Moving Beyond “if” to “how” - Louise Story on Medium
The right newsroom jobs for AI, and the wrong ones - Axios
How the media is covering ChatGPT -- Columbia Journalism Review
Press freedom means controlling the language of AI – NiemanLab
AI wrote this editorial, and it argues that human journalists should keep their jobs – Seattle Times
Nearly three quarters of news organisations believe generative AI presents new opportunities for journalism – The London School of Economics
‘Generative AI doesn’t require us to reimagine journalism, but it gives us a really good excuse’ – Poynter
The heroes of an epic adventure
/A team of researchers interviewed a group of people who've been through a course of psychotherapy this is what they found:
Those former patients who currently enjoyed better psychological health tended to narrate heroic stories in which they bravely battled their symptoms and emerged victorious in the end.
In other words, these people saw themselves as the heroes of an epic adventure and their problems as obstacles that are part of the hero's journey. Now crucially, in those accounts. there was a dominant recurring theme around personal agency. This is the sense that you are the subject influencing your own actions and life circumstances just like the hero in pretty much any story you've ever come across.
So how can we do this for ourselves?
Tip number one is to practice self-distancing, which is a simple act of viewing yourself from the outside in. It allows you to take a calmer, more objective view on the events of your life.
Tip number two is to focus on building your sense of personal agency. My recommendation is to start by practicing your ability to take intentional action. The capacity to intentionally set and achieve goals is widely considered a cornerstone of self-agency.
9 Webinars this week about journalism, media law, FOIAs, Social Media, AI & more
/Mon, Oct 2 – Media Law Office Hours
What: The open group session allows journalists with legal questions to help find answers on issues related to the First Amendment, Freedom of Information, copyright, defamation, or other media law matters.
Who: Attorney Matthew Leish
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free for members
Sponsor: New York Deadline Club
Tue, Oct 3 - Media Distrust in a Post-Truth Society
What: Why has media distrust grown in recent years? And is there anything rank-and-file journalists can do about it? Join us as we unpack the myriad of factors contributing to media distrust, and examine some ways it might begin to be restored.
Who: Gerard Baker, Editor-at-Large, The Wall Street Journal; Joy Mayer, founder of Trusting News; Rod Hicks, SPJ’s Director of Ethics and Diversity.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New York Deadline Club
Tue, Oct 3 through Thu, Oct 5 – National FOIA Summit 2023
What: The fall gathering of access professionals, transparency advocates, and journalists with more than 20 timely panels and training sessions about public records and access.
Who: Jeff Roberts Executive Director of NFOIC; Jodie Gil Associate Professor Southern Connecticut State University; Alexander Shalom, ACLU of NJ; Shirsho Dasgupta Investigative Data Reporter at the Miami Herald; Frank LoMonte, Counsel CNN; Sam Stecklow, Journalist Invisible Institute; Rachael Johnson, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Justin Mayo, Senior Data Journalist at Big Local News; Lisa Pickoff-White, Data Journalist, KQED; Derek Kravitz Investigations and Data Editor at MuckRock; and that’s just on Tuesday!
When: Sessions throughout these three days.
Where: Zoom
Cost: $25 for NFOIC members or $30 for non-members.
Sponsor: National Freedom of Information Coalition
Tue, Oct 3 - Social Media 101 for Nonprofits
What: Practical tips and tools for extending your cause and mission via social media. We cover the basics of using social media for your nonprofit organization and give you handy tips for the “big 3:” Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Who: Kiersten Hill Director of Nonprofit Solutions
When: 2:30 pm, Central
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Firespring
Tue, Oct 3 - AI and the Media
What: AI has been a massive talking point this year, in all areas of the media. Is it friend or foe? Will AI help media folk to become more creative, freeing them up from mundane tasks, and allowing them to extend their production and editorial horizons? Or will it replace jobs, promote tired formats and stereotypes, increase misinformation, and undermine copyright?
Who: Sir Peter Bazalgette. Former chair of ITV, the Arts Council and Endemol; Jessica Cecil. Founder of the Trusted News Initiative and former BBC Chief of Staff; Alex Connock. Former CEO of Ten Alps, now a Fellow at the Said Business School, director of a postgraduate course in Artificial Intelligence, and author ‘Media Management and AI’’; Thad McIlroy. Principal at the Future Of Publishing. Thad will be joining us live from San Francisco.
When: 12:30, Central
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free for students
Sponsor: The Media Society
Wed, Oct 4 - How to Build a Webinar Using ChatGPT
What: How the team at Cvent used ChatGPT to create a webinar that was so good, it had people lining up to attend (virtually, of course). Register for this webinar to get answers to questions like: How can AI be used to ideate topics, build the abstract, and write the content outline and script? What are some ways that AI can be used to help promote virtual events? Can audiences distinguish between AI and human input? Does using AI actually save time or does it add to the workload?
Who: Brooke Gracey of Cvent
When: 3 pm, Central
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Institute for Public Relations
Wed, Oct 4 - What two experts want journalists to know in a time of vaccine fatigue
What: - What you need to know about the COVID-19, flu vaccines. What to know about the new RSV vaccine for older adults and infants. Story ideas for engaging a COVID-weary community. Covering health equity and access angles
Who: Dr. Tina Tan, an infectious disease pediatrics physician and professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine; Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and George Washington University public health professor.
When: 11:30 am, Central
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The National Press Club Journalism Institute
Wed, Oct 4 - Create Short-Form Videos That Actually Drive Sales
What: The impact that entertaining short-form video content has on driving social media ROI. Why creator-brand partnerships outperform brand-only content, and how to choose the right type of creators . How brands can use community-building to achieve higher engagement and follower growth than industry averages.
Who: Ashley Murphy, VP of consumer marketing at Rare Beauty; Kate Kenner Archibald, CMO at Dash Hudson.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Dash Hudson
Wed, Oct 4 - How Media and Journalism Can Defend Democracy from Fascism
Who: Professor Ben-Ghiat, an American historian and cultural critic. She is a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders and professor of history and Italian studies at New York University.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Media & Democracy Project
11 Articles From Sept about Data Science, AI & More
/Pentagon Discloses Plan For Defending Space Systems
Exploring Neural Networks & Unlocking the power of AI
Air Force approaches industry for enabling technologies in artificial intelligence for geospatial
5 Crucial Steps to Develop an Effective Coding Routine
Everything you Need to Become a SAS Certified Data Scientist
Understanding Machine Learning Algorithms: An In-Depth Overview
5 Lessons on How to Get the Most Out of Your Data Science Projects
4 Skills the next generation of data scientists needs to develop
Why "AI" can't succeed without APIs
A beginner's guide to setting up Python and understanding its role in data science
Empathy is a Choice
/Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves. It’s made of exertion, that dowdier cousin of impulse. … This confession of effort chafes against the notion that empathy should always rise unbidden, that genuine means the same thing as unwilled, that intentionality is the enemy of love. But I believe in intention and I believe in work. I believe in waking up in the middle of the night and packing our bags and leaving our worst selves for our better ones.
Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams
13 Articles About How Companies are Using AI in their Businesses
/Meet Your New AI Chatbot Co-Worker - Bloomberg
AI and the automation of work – Ben Evans
Why trying to "shape" AI innovation to protect workers is a bad idea – Noah Smith
Companies Put AI to Work Outside the Cloud, Trimming Costs - Wall Street Journal
How Do Companies Use Artificial Intelligence? – Data Science Central
As Businesses Clamor for Workplace A.I., Tech Companies Rush to Provide It – New York Times
U.S. employers are using AI to essentially reduce workers to numbers in the workplace – NPR
Business Technology Chiefs Question ChatGPT’s Readiness for the Enterprise - Wall Street Journal
AI-native business models and experiences will allow small businesses to appear big and large businesses to move faster – Tech Target
Generative AI Tools Use Custom Data to Power More Business Functions - Wall Street Journal
Businesses Aim to Harness Generative AI to Shake Up Accounting, Finance - Wall Street Journal
How businesses can break through the ChatGPT hype with ‘workable AI’ – Venture Beat
Companies Tap Tech Behind ChatGPT to Make Customer-Service Chatbots Smarter - Wall Street Journal
Success
/He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
who has left the world better than he found it whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul;
who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;whose life was an inspiration;
whose memory a benediction.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
11 Articles about AI & Creativity
/ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and the collapse of the creative process – The Conversation
The Truth About AI Getting "Creative" - Marques Brownlee (video)
What Dreams & AI have in common – Kevin Kelly’s blog
Is Adobe's AI art feature as creepy as it sounds? – Creative Bloq
Generative AI may shorten the time it takes to create richer and more thoughtful content - Semafor
Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job From AI – The Atlantic
8 Big Questions about AI – New York Times
Is AI better at picking and pairing fonts than you? – Better Web Type
Using AI to do the work you don’t want to do – The Dropbox Blog
How to defend against the rise of ChatGPT? Think like a poet – Washington Post