Ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Stephen Goforth
There are three depths of knowing.
Hearsay: You’ve heard of the president. You’ve heard of Mt. Everest.
Introduction: You’ve been introduced to the president. You’ve visited Mt. Everest.
Intimately: You’re a good friend of the president. You’ve climbed Mt. Everest.
Understanding comes when you wrestle with these questions:
What is the surest thing to you?
What would be the most impossible thing to doubt?
Stephen Goforth
"There are 204 counties in the US with no local news outlet, and 1,562 with only one, usually a weekly newspaper, That’s more than half of the nation’s counties." -Associated Press
Google's AI note-taking service 'NotebookLM' is now available – TechSpot
From bench to bot: How to use AI tools to convert notes into a draft – The Transmitter
Bard can now watch YouTube videos for you – The Verge
You can now create AI images right from Google Search — here’s how – Tom’s Guide
7 things I’ll tell my best friend, who is just getting started with Midjourney – Medium
How to Use AI Tools to Easily Make Short-Form TikTok and Reels Videos – Tech.co
Amazon Launches Free AI Classes in Bid to Win Talent Arms Race – Wall Street Journal
I tried Microsoft's AI-powered assistant, Copilot. The tool helpfully attends meetings and summarizes emails, but it's best to treat it as a rookie intern – Business Insiider
7 AI Tools That Help You Write Emails - MakeUseOf
Create Stunning Data Viz in Seconds with ChatGPT – KD Nuggets
How To Use Google's New AI Image Generator in Search – Tech.co
How to Use AI to Get Your Next Job, According to Career Experts – Reader’s Digest
Prompt Structure in Conversations with Generative AI – Nielsen Norman Group
For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act. But it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. -CS Lewis
Tell all the truth but tell it slant. -Emily Dickinson, born Dec. 10, 1830
I can’t afford to let other people dictate my moods. The way I respond is up to me. -Les Carter
Although the act of nurturing another’s spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one’s own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. The genuine lover always perceives the beloved as someone who has a totally separate identity. Moreover, the genuine lover always respects and even encourages this separateness and the unique individuality of the beloved. Failure to perceive and respect this separateness is extremely common, however, and the cause of much mental illness and unnecessary suffering.
Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled
Clay Christensen (who wrote The Innovator’s Dilemma and came up with the idea of “disruptive innovation”) put together a study called The Innovator’s DNA, which attempts to take us inside the minds of successful innovators. Christensen and his fellow researchers believe it's more than a case of good genes when it comes to disruptive innovators. Christensen found five habits common among them:
associating: Innovators connect seemingly unconnected things (He writes, "Innovative breakthroughs often happen at the intersection of diverse disciplines and fields).
questioning: Innovators keep asking why things aren’t done differently ("What would happen if we did this?"). Questions outnumber answers in conversations and a good question is respected as much as a good answer.
observing: Innovators are also intense observers. They pay attention to detail.
networking: They are great at networking ideas. They are constantly "finding and testing ideas through a diverse network of individuals."
experimenting: Innovators are constantly trying out new experiences and ideas. They "explore the world intellectually and experientially, testing hypotheses along the way."
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ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters – Scientific American
Gender Bias 'alive and well' across gen-AI platforms – Computing.co
AI 'red teams' race to find bias and harms in chatbots like ChatGPT - The Washington Post
AI should be assumed prejudiced until proven otherwise – The Atlantic
AI is biased. The White House is working with hackers to try to fix that – NPR
Racially biased AI can lead to false arrests, warns expert – Interesting Engineering
AI was asked to create images of Black African docs treating white kids. How'd it go? – NPR
Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism – Washington Post
How to mitigate bias from AI tools in the hiring process – Fast Company
AI-powered digital colleagues are here. Some 'safe' jobs could be vulnerable. - BBC
5 types of new jobs that AI could create - Business Insider
The industry talking the most about AI jobs is not tech, according to LinkedIn – Fast Company
Why Walmart thinks AI won’t cut jobs – Semafor
The biggest winners — and losers — in the coming AI job apocalypse – Business Insider
AI threatens wages, not jobs - so far, Researchers find - Reuters
The New Jobs for Humans in the AI Era: Artificial intelligence threatens some careers, but these opportunities are on the rise – Wall Street Journal
A writer says he was laid off after a media company began using AI to translate articles: 'An AI took my job, literally' – Business Insider
AI-related jobs surge rapidly - The Financial Express
Mid-career professionals, watch out. You're the most exposed to AI - ZDnet
Statement to the US Senate AI Insight Forum on “AI and the Workforce” - ITIF
LinkedIn Shares New Insights into the Impacts of Generative AI on the Workforce – Social Media Today
Study Reveals Professions Most Likely to Be Replaced by AI – Men’s Journal
LinkedIn allows users to use its A.I. to enhance their profiles — but it leaves something to be desired. – Washington Post
Employers willing to pay ‘premium’ for AI-skilled workers, survey finds - Higher Ed Dive
Will AI Cause Unemployment? - CATO Institute
The fault may not be so much that they hate life as that they do not hate the sinful part of themselves. M. Scott Peck
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. -CS Lewis
Methods to effectively group data in R, a crucial step in data analysis and visualization
Create Stunning Data Viz in Seconds with ChatGPT
The 4 soft skills every data scientist needs
List comprehensions in Python are super helpful one-liners but if overused, not so much
Exploring the Use of R in Data Science
How the Koreas’ race to launch a spy satellite has ramifications beyond the peninsula
Innovation distance explains why so many of those who turn an industry upside down are outsiders, even outcasts. To understand this point we need to grasp the difference between the two types of innovation. Sustaining innovations are improvements that make the product better, but do not threaten its market. The disruptive innovation, conversely, threatens to displace a product altogether. It is the difference between the electric typewriter, which improved on the typewriter, and the word processor, which supplanted it.
Another advantage of the outside inventor is less a matter of the imagination than of his being a disinterested party. Distance creates a freedom to develop inventions that might challenge or even destroy the business model of the dominant industry. The outsider is often the only one who can afford to scuttle a perfectly sound ship, to propose an industry that might challenge the business establishment or suggest a whole new business model. Those closer to - often at the trough of - existing industries face a remarkable constant pressure not to invent things that will ruin their employer. The outsider has nothing to lose. But to be clear, it is not mere distance, but the right distance that matters; there is such a thing as being to far away.
Tim Wu, The Master Switch
Confused About Which AI Tools to Use? These Teachers Have Advice – Education Week
The Sentient Syllabus Project – a collaborative effort launched by Professor Boris Steipe
4 Steps to Help You Plan for ChatGPT in Your Classroom -Chronicle of Higher Ed
Is ChatGPT being embraced in classrooms this semester? – Semafor
AI Guidance for Faculty from Harvard’s Office of Undergraduate Education – Harvard
Schools Need to Help Students Use AI Tools Effectively, Expert Says – EdWeek
What I Learned From an Experiment to Apply Generative AI to My Data Course – EdSurge News
Why You Should Rethink Your Resistance to ChatGPT – Chronicle of Higher Ed
1 in 10 teens already use ChatGPT for school. Here’s how to guide them. – Washington Post
Microsoft unveils first professional certificate for generative AI skills – ZDnet
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, and them’s pretty good odds. (unknown)
To be alive is to be vulnerable. –Madeleine L’Engle (born Nov. 29, 1918)
Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China – New York Times
The who's who of the tech world will gather on Capitol Hill to focus on AI – NPR
ChatGPT leans liberal, research shows – Washington Post
Will the federal government regulate A.I.? History suggests it could take a while. – New York Times
Who Is Going to Regulate AI? – Harvard Business Review
Google to require disclosure for AI in election ads – Axios
AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous – Wired
On AI: What Should We Regulate? – Battlelle Media
Argentina’s AI election heralds a new future for politics – Semafor
Here’s what it might look like if A.I. is deployed to sway elections—And what we can do to stop it - Fortune
If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always gotten.
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