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Tech addiction, Google tests facial recognition, and AI washing

AI for Pros: Navigating the Ever-Evolving Landscape of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Employment

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Malcolm Frank, CEO
July 01, 2024

A Note From Malcolm

“Summer time, and the livin’ is easy…”

This week in the US we celebrate Independence Day: BBQ, beer, baseball, fireworks, a few references to King George and all that.  

Yet all of us should start thinking about a new form of liberty: breaking free from our addiction to technology. The average American now spends over 4.5 hours a day staring at their smartphone. For GenZ it’s more than 6 hours.  According to a Stanford study, our youth will spend at least 12 full years of their lives in their favorite yoga pose, downward-facing thumb. Sleeping now stands as the only human activity that consumes more time.  

We weren’t wired for this: intellectually, socially, physically. And now we’re all part of a grand societal experiment, destination unknown.  

So, for one, I’m making a concerted effort to turn off my machines when around family and friends this summer. Who knows what might be (re)discovered?

With that lens, here are some highlights from the past week at the intersection of enterprise AI and work:

Study: People check their phones 144 times a day

Oh, and 3 out of 4 scroll in the restroom. How to disconnect:

Is AI killing freelance jobs?

“The canary in the coal mine”: advancements in generative AI have led to a decrease in the number of open freelance roles. TalentGenius provides perspective in Fast Company:

Postings for AI jobs rise 3.5 times faster than all jobs

They also carry a 25% compensation premium.

Not there yet…

Global study finds only 22% of companies effectively using GenAI.

For those of you keeping score at home…

Hugging Face releases Open LLM leaderboard 2.

Google is testing facial recognition technology for campus security

Technology “to help prevent unauthorized individuals from gaining access to our campuses.”

AI and establishing trust

Keeping customers’ confidence can be increasingly difficult with GenAI’s unpredictability.  Deloitte and SAP provide some rules for this new road.

Tool of the Week:  Dola AI

Schedule your life, free your time.

Globant applying AI across the software development lifecycle

The new battleground in the IT services industry - proprietary AI agents. 

What is “AI washing” and why is it a problem?

Many companies claim to use AI when they're actually using less-sophisticated computing.

Microsoft CEO of AI: Your online content is “freeware” fodder for training models

"I think that with respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 1990s has been it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That's been the understanding."

Beyond chatbots: banks now rolling out virtual assistants

AI assistants that “understand what you are talking about, what you want, what is your intention… [and linking them] with all the different applications of the bank.”

Another sign of the AI apocalypse

Get your personalized sports news from an AI-generated Al Michaels.

AI is redefining corporate leadership

Are you ready?

And one more thing…

Oxford Prof: AI will “likely” eliminate humanity

Oh, yippee.

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