Generative AI models, such as Stable Diffusion, are amplifying gender and racial biases in their outputs, according to an investigation by Bloomberg. The report found that the model depicted women and people of colour as underrepresented in high-paying jobs and overrepresented in low-paying ones. The model was also found to be inaccurate in its portrayal of skin tones and gender, and to have amplified stereotypes of race and gender in its outputs. The report warns that the use of such models in policing and other areas could exacerbate existing biases in the criminal justice system. original...... read more >

"The essence of MC reflects competencies required by the industry. Further, it reflects a trend toward on-demand, short-form skills development focused on competencies and specific abilities."—Microcredentials: Why Industry Is in the Driver’s Seat  read more >

“Enter the most aspirational description of effective executive assistants: to become extended brains (and therefore extended doers, speakers, and listeners) for the leaders they support.”—Making the Case for Effective Assistants  read more >

A useful model, not just for school leaders. “when supported by effective executive assistants, school leaders will be prepped on the way into meetings, present when in those meetings, and pushed forward by those meetings”—Making the Case for Effective Assistants  read more >

The AI in Business Trend Report 2023 surveyed 500 tech professionals to get their take on generative AI in the workplace. Over half of the respondents reported using generative AI, with Chat GPT, CopyAI, and Jasper noted as the top three writing tools. Millennials and Gen Z showed the highest usage, averaging a 58% adoption rate. An average of 61.5% of companies between 11-1000 employees currently use generative AI in the workplace. Overall, the top five biggest use cases for gen AI in the workplace are creative writing, email marketing, idea generation, blog posts, and writing product... read more >

This is a good argument to just keep running with things. It's inevitable that we would get too much wrong if we tried to engineer the job market to prevent impact from AI. “It’s understandable that we might want to steer or shape the development of AI technology so that it maximizes the benefits for workers, and avoids the “replacement” part. But there is a big problem with the idea — namely that no one, including Daron Acemoglu or any economist, has any idea how to predict which technologies will augment humans and which will simply replace their labor.”—Why trying to shape AI innovation to...... read more >

“Too often, this happens because the busiest people in an organization are often the same people who need to give final approval to, or budgetary support for, an idea. Or, they don’t believe that they have the time to explain to someone else how a project should be done. To coin a kind of reverse power law, there’s probably a lot of untapped value in most schools simply because the person in charge doesn’t have fifteen minutes (right now) to activate that value, see it through, and as a result, save fifteen hours (over the next six months).”—Making the Case for Effective Assistants  read more >

“Leaders can get in the way. Sitting on emails can stall progress or halt momentum. A too strict hierarchy can leave a lot of value “at the top,” like a traffic jam waiting to resolve.”—Making the Case for Effective Assistants  read more >

Adobe has launched a number of generative AI-powered services as part of its Sensei GenAI platform, including Firefly, a tool that generates images. Firefly is now available in the standalone Firefly web app, Adobe Express and Creative Cloud. Adobe is willing to indemnify businesses that use Firefly-generated images. Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Journey Optimized now get a generative AI-based marketing copy generator. Users of Customer Journey Analytics will now also be able to use natural language queries to analyze their data and the service can now automatically caption charts and... read more >

The article is about Runway Research, a company that aims to build multimodal AI systems to usher in a new era of human creativity. They offer various AI magic tools, including Gen-2, which allows users to create videos in any style they can imagine with text to video generation. The article also highlights the company's constant innovation and research at the core of what they do. Runway Research offers a fully-featured timeline video editor with 30+ AI magic tools, and users can try Runway for free. Original article: Gen-2  read more >