Something AI is good at—and something it's not

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“Studies this year of ChatGPT in legal analysis and white-collar writing chores have found that the bot helps lower-performing people more than it does the most skilled. On a task that required reasoning based on evidence, however, ChatGPT was not helpful at all. Here, ChatGPT lulled employees into trusting it too much. Unaided humans had the correct answer 85 percent of the time. People who used ChatGPT without training scored just over 70 percent. Those who had been trained did even worse, getting the answer only 60 percent of the time. In interviews conducted after the experiment, “people told us they neglected to check because it’s so polished, it looks so right.’”

Read more in The New York Times

Turning happiness into a management tool

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A large American health-care provider, Ochsner Health System, introduced a rule that workers must make eye contact and smile whenever they walk within ten feet of another person in the hospital. Pret A Manger sends in mystery shoppers to visit every outlet regularly to see if they are greeted with the requisite degree of joy. Pass the test and the entire staff gets a bonus—a powerful incentive for workers to turn themselves into happiness police. Companies have a right to ask their employees to be polite when they deal with members of the public. They do not have a right to try to regulate their workers’ psychological states and turn happiness into an instrument of corporate control.

Companies would be much better off forgetting wishy-washy goals like encouraging contentment. They should concentrate on eliminating specific annoyances, such as time-wasting meetings and pointless memos. Instead, they are likely to develop ever more sophisticated ways of measuring the emotional state of their employees. Academics are already busy creating smartphone apps that help people keep track of their moods, such as Track Your Happiness and Moodscope. It may not be long before human-resource departments start measuring workplace euphoria via apps, cameras and voice recorders.

Schumpeter in The Economist

Career Choices

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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 Human/AI Blend isn't Always The Best Option

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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.

Read more in The New York Times

16 Articles about AI & Health Care

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14 Articles about AI & the US Military

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Selling the Problem

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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

11 Articles about AI for those leading Companies  

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9 Articles about the Business of Running an AI

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Crashing through Barriers

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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

A Pardon in the Pocket

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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

A King Gives Away His Crown

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A Texas high school football player gave fans another reason to cheer, after turning over his homecoming king crown to a friend with cerebral palsy. Fossil Ridge Panthers quarterback Max Akin stunned the crowd during a halftime ceremony when he kneeled and presented his crown to team equipment manager K.L. Norwood, who was also nominated for king. “What I did wasn’t as admirable as how K.L. treats everyone,” says Akin. “Loving everybody and having a heart like K.L. is what really matters in this world.” 

Read more at CNN

18 Amazing Things AI is Being Used to Do Now

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Build Walls

An autonomous excavator can build a wall out of nearby boulders by an AI system that uses the data to determine the best placement for each boulder – HackaDay

 

Predict Weather

NASA and IBM are building an AI for weather and climate applications – Engadget

 

Map Icebergs

Researchers at the University of Leeds have created an AI system that can map icebergs in satellite images 10,000 times faster than humans - ESA

 

Mute Chip Crunching

Frito-Lay has created an AI-powered mic filter that can remove the crunching sound created by eating chips during online gaming sessions – Marketing Drive

 

Predict New Stable Compounds

Google DeepMind has created an AI system that can predict the structure of crystalline materials much faster than humans – The Next Web

 

Track Tomatoes

A data visualization tracking tomato production in Europe – Data Innovation

 

Make a Movie

Make I asked ChatGPT to create a Hallmark Christmas movie — and it went better than expected – Tom’s Guide

 

Be a Personal Assistant

Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them? – New York Times 

 

Win Awards

The Grammys will consider that viral song with Drake and The Weeknd AI vocals for awards after all – Engadet

 

Let you Speak in Other Languages

This new AI video tool clones your voice in 7 languages — and it's blowing up – Tom’s Guide

 

Edit Major Movies

How Will Editors Use AI? The Tech’s Role in Production and Post Scrutinized at IBC – Hollywood Reporter  

 

Translate Podcasts

Spotify develops ai-powered voice cloning tool that can translate podcasts into multiple languages – Music Business Worldwide

 

Fashion Modeling

Spanish influencer agency designed this AI model after deciding real-life influencers are a pain – BGR 

 

Create Anime  

Tezuka Fans Unimpressed by Black Jack's First Official AI-Generated Manga – CBR

 

Read Books for you

Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead? - WIRED

 

Haggle with Sellers

See how well you can haggle with AI to purchase real products – AI Garage Sale

 

Create a Dead Actors Voice

AI-Generated Jimmy Stewart Narrates Bedtime Story for Calm App – Variety

 

And do other chores

6 ChatGPT mind-blowing extensions to use it anywhere – Medium