Work Futures Daily - I’ll Be Home For The Holidays!
The last working day before a few days of holiday. I’ll be back to work on Wednesday!
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I interviewed the always deep-thinking Lee Bryant (above) in On the Firstline with Lee Bryant: The Quantified Organization. A sample:
Companies may think work happens within their formal hierarchical chains of command, the reality is that this is mitigated by a lot of peer-to-peer collaboration that is happening laterally. | Lee Bryant
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ON AI
Steve Levine asked a bunch of AI heavyweights what they thought the biggest AI stories were in 2017. I go along with Andrew Ng, CEO Landing.ai, and Andrew Moore, Dean of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science agreed that Libratus AI beating four top professional poker players was the biggest story. As Moore put it,
This victory in no-limit Texas Hold ‘em heralds a new kind of game in which the AI has to take into account that its opponent might be deliberately misleading. In a world of increasing scrutiny of what information is real or unreal, it is amazing that we are seeing the emergence of a new generation of AI that is more skeptical about raw facts.
A must read.
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