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Stephen Goforth
Find what you are good at. Find what you have a passion for doing. People will pay you good money to do the things that fit within both circles. No one will be willing to pay for your "C minus" work (or not very much). So forget about bringing your "fours" up to "sixes" (on a scale of one to ten). Focus on getting your "eights "up to "nines" and your "nines" up to "tens." (A bit of an oversimplification but you get the idea).
Stephen Goforth
A new study “recruited management consultants from Boston Consulting Group.” One of the tasks was to brainstorm about a new type of shoe, sketch a persuasive business plan for making it and write about it persuasively. Some researchers had believed only humans could perform such creative tasks. They were wrong. The consultants who used ChatGPT produced work that independent evaluators rated about 40 percent better on average. In fact, people who simply cut and pasted ChatGPT’s output were rated more highly than colleagues who blended its work with their own thoughts. And the A.I.-assisted consultants were more than 20 percent faster.
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AI’s big test: Making sense of $4 trillion in medical expenses - Politico
How to Use ChatGPT for Health: Doctors, Professionals Give Tips - Bloomberg
Medical AI Tools Can Make Dangerous Mistakes. Can the Government Help Prevent Them? - WSJ
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges – Ars Technica
AI that reads brain scans shows promise for finding Alzheimer’s genes – Nature
New A.I. Tool Diagnoses Brain Tumors on the Operating Table – New York Times
Health data in the UK is about to flow more freely, like it or not (podcast) – The Guardian
Doctors Wrestle With A.I. in Patient Care, Citing Lax Oversight – New York Times
Researchers at Northwestern Medicine have created a generative AI system that can create text reports interpreting chest radiographs as accurately as radiologists. – Health IT Analytics
Where healthcare needs to focus for AI – Fast Company
How to Use ChatGPT for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - MakeUseOf
Balancing The Pros And Cons Of AI In Healthcare – Forbes
Google reveals new generative AI models for healthcare – Health Care Dive
Eliminating Racial Bias in Health Care AI – Yale School of Medicine
The passion that lies within you must be discovered. -Laurie Calzada
Big Data Industry Predictions for 2024
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NGA leans in on AI, machine learning to improve data analysis
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10 Open-Source tools that every data scientist should learn
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A look at what could be coming down to the pipeline for geospatial professionals in the coming year
Using memristor-based Bayesian neural networks
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What Can the Sports Betting Industry Teach About Building Predictive Models?
Earth-sensing data: what a series of images through time in one location can tell you
The most interesting machine learning trends industry experts foresee in 2024
10 Tech Trends That Will Impact the Satellite Industry in 2024
What is Predictive Analytics? Benefits, Models and Use Cases
Pentagon's AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons
It is certainly worthwhile getting another perspective from qualified friends about the decisions you face. Accepting advice is critical to raising the bar — as long as you continue to own your work and not allow others to take over.
Stephen Goforth
Some tech leaders fear AI. ScaleAI is selling it to the military. - Washington Post
Israel is using an AI system to find targets in Gaza. Experts say it's just the start - NPR
Pentagon's AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons – Niagara Gazette
A.I. Killer Drones Are Becoming Reality. Nations Disagree on Limits - New York Times
Scale AI wants to be America’s AI arms dealer to compete with China - Washington Post
NGA is looking closer at how large language models and data labeling can further the progress of artificial intelligence across the military – Breaking Defense
Military AI’s Next Frontier: Your Work Computer - Wired
A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat - New York Times
CIA Builds Its Own Artificial Intelligence Tool in Rivalry With China - Bloomberg
Let’s Talk About AI on the Battlefield - Washington Post
Air Force Secretary: Military needs AI to augment human capabilities - Space News
U.S. not ready for era of robotic, AI world wars - Axios
The militarized AI risk that’s bigger than “killer robots” - Vox
Autonomous drones are rapidly changing combat—a new one aims to gain an edge with jet power and AI - Wired
Most managers and leaders put 10 percent of their energy into selling the problem and 90 percent into selling the solution to the problem. People aren't in the market for solutions to problems they don't see, acknowledge and understand. They might even come up with a better solution than yours. Then you won't have to sell it, the solution will be theirs.
William Bridges, Managing Transitions
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant
Experts say the courts will feel even greater impacts from generative AI in 2024 - Reuters
Generating a Body of Generative AI Case Law - Holland & Knight Law
Recent cases raise questions about the ethics of using AI in the legal system - NPR
Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Lawsuit Against Meta - The Hollywood Reporter
How China’s $70 AI copyright ruling impacts the world - Semafor
Legal experts step up to defend wave of AI lawsuits - Financial Times
Exploring Copyright Boundaries: The Impact of Van Gogh-Inspired AI Art - JD Supra
AI cannot be patent 'inventor', UK Supreme Court rules in landmark case - Reuters
Face search company Clearview AI overturns UK privacy fine - BBC
Vanderbilt Law School introduces new AI Legal Lab - National Jurist
AI-generated content can now be copyrighted...sometimes - Mashable
Two Supreme Court Cases Could Shape the Future of AI and Content Moderation - Just Security
OpenAI, Microsoft hit with new author copyright lawsuit over AI training - Reuters
The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people - McKinsey
Gen AI: A guide for CFOs – McKinsey
As Generative AI Reshapes the Workforce, These Companies May Be Most Affected - Wall Street Journal
Harness the power of an AI-powered forecasting model to revitalize your business – Data Science Central
How AI May Change Entrepreneurship – Wall Street Journal
Generative AI and the future of HR – McKinsey
AI Can Do as Bad a Job as Your PR Department - Wall Street Journal
How machine learning can work for business – Tech Central
In digital and AI transformations, companies should start with the problem, not the technology – McKinsey
Technology’s generational moment with generative AI: A CIO and CTO guide - McKinsey
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary. -Arthur Schopenhauer
“For God so loved the world, that he gave…” We are never more like him than when we do the same.
OpenAI Is in Early Talks to Raise New Funding at $100 Billion Valuation - Bloomberg
Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit – The New York Times
OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets - Wired
Expert survey: Don't trust tech CEOs on AI – Axios
GitHub’s AI coding assistant, Copilot, is a moneymaker – Semafor
Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team - The Verge
OpenAI’s New Weapon in Talent War With Google: $10 Million Pay Packages for Researchers – The Information
Top Google executive: ‘We don’t believe in outsourcing’ AI development – Semafor
Seeking a Big Edge in A.I., South Korean Firms Think Smaller - The New York Times
Why do you think Matthew started his Gospel with a boring list of so-and-so begat so-and-so? Consider just the women mentioned in this genealogy. There are four of them before you get to Mary. Matthew introduces their glorious Messiah.. as descending from two harlots, one born out of incest and an adulterous. They are the only four ladies mentioned in the genealogy other than Mary.
He came crashing through the barriers that said, “You have to be born spiritually out of the ‘right kind’ of people.”
And today, he comes crashing through barriers you’ve erected, too. The barriers that place God in a nice comfortable corner where you can keep an eye on him. He breaks down those excuses that say, “God, you can’t use me. You can’t love me. I’m a sinner.”
God built a monument to grace on that genealogy. That’s why you shouldn’t shy away from admitting your past for what it was. It can be a monument to God’s grace in our lives. That’s when God can use us the most- when we realize who we are, where we come from, and how much our lives are dependent on God's grace—on receiving it and giving it to others.
Don’t hide from the past and pretend it didn’t happen. By admitting who we are and acknowledging how God completely changes us, he can bring us further than he could otherwise and use us more.. just like those people in the genealogy.
You stack up a row of harlots and liars and murderers and cheaters, and what do you have? You have Jesus. That’s the way God works.
Stephen Goforth
Darkness was cheap and Scrooge liked it. -Charles Dickens
Google Can’t Catch All the AI Images. Can You? - Bloomberg
Artificial intelligence can find your location in photos, worrying privacy experts – NPR
Over 100 Photographers Unite Against AI at World Press Photo – Blind Magazine
Are AI faces ‘more human’ than real ones? See if you can tell the difference – New York Post
A New Way to Tell Deepfakes From Real Photos: Can It Work? – WSJ
Adobe Caught Selling AI-Generated Images of Israel-Palestine Violence – Futurism
Fake Nudes of Real Students Cause an Uproar at a New Jersey High School - WSJ
Shutterstock, Adobe Stock are mixing AI-created images with real ones - Washington Post
OpenAI debates when to release its AI-generated image detector – Tech Crunch
A surge in fake AI-generated photos is eroding public trust in information online, charity warns - Daily Mail
Meta Is Scraping Photos From Facebook And Instagram To Create AI Images - Forbes
AI fake nudes are booming. It’s ruining real teens’ lives. – Washington Post
More online sellers are using AI-generated images, so what you buy may look different – NPR
A prisoner in 1830 named George Wilson was pardoned by the President. They brought Wilson the pardon, but he refused to accept it because it would mean admitting his guilt. So he walked to the hangman’s noose with the pardon in his pocket. That’s what each human is like. We have pardons in our pockets. But most people ignore their guilt, ignore the pardon, the new life, the love and power.
Harold Myra, The New You
I’ll state my convictions clearly, then allow others the freedom to respond as they see fit. -Les Carter
Why AI struggles to predict the future – NPR
How AI will upend the customer service industry - Semafor
OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI - MIT Technology Review
Forrester’s 2024 Predictions Report warns of AI ‘shadow pandemic’ as employees adopt unauthorized tools – VentureBeat
The biggest winners — and losers — in the coming AI job apocalypse – Business Insider
Now That Generative AI Is Here, Where Will All The Data Come From? – Forbes
Generative AI a la ChatGPT is pushing investors to new extremes of hype – Axios
The Generative AI Bubble Will Burst Soon – KD Nuggets
Wall Street Watchdog Says AI Will Cause 'Unavoidable' Economic Collapse – Gizmodo
Experts Predict the Future of Technology, AI & Humanity – Wired
An English professor long interested in the statistical analysis of literature & he thinks AI is a game-changer in our understanding of texts – Business Insider
How AI Is Impacting Society And Shaping The Future – Forbes
In its own words: The future of AI in sports – Sports Business Journal
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