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"For example, a technique used by the researchers, Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning is one that many advanced generative AI users have discovered and used productively." —Researchers Extend GPT-4 With New Prompting Method  read more >

"dditionally, you can get even more specific and ask it to incorporate some of the competitive advantages you want to highlight." —How to use ChatGPT to boost your PPC efforts  read more >

"Now, a few of the highest skilled weavers and clothmakers were just fine — there was still a market for the finest artisanal goods, and machine-made stuff couldn't touch any of that. I expect this is a similar dynamic we'll see play out with AI and a lot of jobs involving things like writing, coding, illustration, and graphic design." —What History Says About AI's Threat to Jobs and White-Collar Work  read more >

"My colleague Aki Ito wrote about how AI will ultimately harm the most talented people in white collar jobs, because it will make it harder for them justify sky-high wages." —What History Says About AI's Threat to Jobs and White-Collar Work  read more >

"Broad match keywords might help you capture a wider range of these fringe keywords, but this research might be helpful in other areas like ad copywriting or landing page copy." —How to use ChatGPT to boost your PPC efforts  read more >

"“It’s optimizing past the point of diminishing returns.” Obviously, stop before you hit the point of diminishing returns. The problem is people stop way before reaching the point of diminishing returns but claim they’ve hit diminishing returns." —Are your standards too low? In defense of raising the bar  read more >

"Another reason why high standards matters: As a leader, you can’t see everything every person does every day. Managers, by definition, have less visibility into what each direct report is working on than the direct report does. You need your team to hold themselves to a high standard in the moments when no one is looking" —Are your standards too low? In defense of raising the bar  read more >

"Reduce decision fatigue: Stop being the only one who catches stuff that slips through the cracks and being the only one who makes decisions." —Are your standards too low? In defense of raising the bar  read more >

"This team uses lazy excuses like “there’s a speed vs quality trade-off!” when they are not remotely close to moving fast enough or shipping work that’s high quality enough to breach that boundary." —Are your standards too low? In defense of raising the bar  read more >

"And it isn’t just work. If AI turns poor employees into good ones, it might do the same for other fields. I suspect that it will have a major effect on entrepreneurship, giving every entrepreneur a personalized cofounder to fill in the gaps in their skills. This suggests a potential for an expansion of entrepreneurship, especially given that GPT-4 is widely available for free around the world, helping potential founders far from the usual technology hubs." —Everyone is above average - by Ethan Mollick  read more >

"Fabrizio Dell’Acqua shows why relying too much on AI can backfire. In an experiment, he found that recruiters who used high-quality AI became lazy, careless, and less skilled in their own judgment. They missed out on some brilliant applicants and made worse decisions than recruiters who used low-quality AI or no AI at all. When the AI is very good, humans have no reason to work hard and pay attention. They let the AI take over, instead of using it as a tool." —Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier  read more >

"Even though A.I. is moving into the next phase of its development, the birth of the industry came at the “perfect time” for the global/U.S. economy, the partners write. The U.S. economy is facing an existential problem whereby it risks not having enough workers to fill all of its jobs. Essentially, the current, extremely tight labor market will be a permanent fixture of the economy rather than a recent trend. “The U.S. workforce fell into a wormhole and disappeared,” Kedrosky and Norlin write."—A.I. came at 'perfect time' to save the economy, VC says | Fortune  read more >

"Kedrosky and Norlin believe demographic trends will ultimately lead to a drastic decline in overall productivity as industries like retail, manufacturing, and health care struggle to fill open positions. There’s some indication that those trends are, in fact, here to stay. The overall labor force participation rate is still about a percentage point lower than it was in February 2020. In a workforce the size of the U.S.’s that can equal several million workers."—A.I. came at 'perfect time' to save the economy, VC says | Fortune  read more >

"The answer is to extend and customize a model to make it smart about your own business. While hosted models like ChatGPT have gotten most of the attention, there is a long and growing list of LLMs that enterprises can download, customize, and use behind the firewall — including open-source models like StarCoder from Hugging Face and StableLM from Stability AI."—How to minimize data risk for generative AI and LLMs in the enterprise | VentureBeat  read more >

This should really mention that tools like Make and Zapier are critical to making all this work. "That jargon translates to giving businesses the ability to free themselves from a monolithic architecture to create tech stacks, applications, and services that are specifically designed to their needs. It vastly reduces costs, speeds up development, and is incredibly flexible."—Forget gen AI for now: these are the martech trends you really need to know about - Tech.eu  read more >

"Composable architecture I would be the first to admit that ‘composable architecture’ does not sound as exciting as XR but it is arguably much more important. Indeed, without composable architecture many of the most exciting XR opportunities can not be realised. If you’re unfamiliar with the term it is, in a nutshell, combining API-first microservices on the cloud using headless technology. That jargon translates to giving businesses the ability to free themselves from a monolithic architecture to create tech stacks, applications, and services that are specifically designed to their needs. It...... read more >

"Nearly 12 million Americans in occupations with shrinking demand may need to switch jobs by 2030.That's according to a new McKinsey Global Institute study that examined how the rise of AI and other factors like an aging population and e-commerce could impact US employment in the years ahead."— Jobs at Risk That AI Will Replace, Change the Most by 2030: McKinsey  read more >

Is this the new normal? Will this last? "Despite the corporate push for a return to the office, data suggests that office attendance is still below pre-pandemic levels. Placer.ai’s Nationwide Office Building Index, which looked at 800 office buildings, found that numbers were more than the majority at 60% of pre-pandemic levels."— The Death of The Copier: Resisting the Return: Executives Ditch the Copier for the Comfort of Remote Work  read more >

Is this a matter of business strategy? Or privilege and preference? "The traditional five-day office week is facing resistance from an unexpected quarter: top-tier executives. According to new research from McKinsey, these influential senior employees strongly prefer the option of working from home at least part of the time."— The Death of The Copier: Resisting the Return: Executives Ditch the Copier for the Comfort of Remote Work  read more >

" The urge to make up for reduced in-person contact with even more online contact has left today’s workers even more besieged by incoming email, messaging and other electronic communications. Into this maelstrom rides AI, with tools that promise to triage our inbox or take on the hard work of composing replies.  Hybrid work has intensified an enormous pain point that AI offers to cure—and in offering us some tools for managing overload, AI may make remote work more attractive and sustainable."—The New "Hybrid Work" is "AI + Humans" - JSTOR Daily  read more >

"Once you’ve got a workforce that is both burned-out on virtual meetings and leery of returning to the office for in-person brainstorms, it’s time to find another wellspring of innovation. AI offers us door #3: An always-on, nearly infinitely knowledgeable colleague who is happy to brainstorm or spitball on the subjects of your choice."—The New "Hybrid Work" is "AI + Humans" - JSTOR Daily  read more >

"For employees who miss the spontaneity, knowledge-sharing and freewheeling riffs of the old-world office—but not the hassle of a commute, or a calendar packed with meetings—AI provides a welcome alternative."—The New "Hybrid Work" is "AI + Humans" - JSTOR Daily  read more >

"Unfortunately for the believers, new research mostly runs counter to this, showing that offices, for all their flaws, remain essential."—The working-from-home illusion fades  read more >

"The reasons for the findings will probably not surprise anyone who has spent much of the past few years working from a dining-room table. It is harder for people to collaborate from home."—The working-from-home illusion fades  read more >

"The more I experiment with GPT, Genei, Akkio and other AI tools, the more I have levelled up my data-analysis, writing and analytic skills—in ways that have opened entirely new avenues of research and professional capacity."—The New "Hybrid Work" is "AI + Humans" - JSTOR Daily  read more >

"But remote employees seem to have made peace with a working life that offers fewer social gratifications: 94% of employees in remote-capable jobs want to keep working remote at least part of the time, according to a 2022 Gallup survey. We might miss the human contact with colleagues, but we don’t miss it enough to actually put on pants and go to the office every day."—The New "Hybrid Work" is "AI + Humans" - JSTOR Daily  read more >

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the job market, presenting exciting prospects for career advancement."—AI-Powered Professions: Unlocking a World of New Career Opportunities | by Lukas Highway | Jun, 2023 | Medium  read more >

"according to a separate 2023 study, managers and employees disagree about the impact: The former believe that remote working reduces productivity, while employees believe the opposite."—History suggests we can't predict how AI will affect the workforce  read more >

"In the context of copywriting and SEO, AI will play a significant role, providing new opportunities and giving rise to innovative professions."—AI-Powered Professions: Unlocking a World of New Career Opportunities | by Lukas Highway | Jun, 2023 | Medium  read more >

"For example, while the broad shift toward remote work could help promote diversity with more flexible hiring, I see the increasing use of AI as likely to have the opposite effect. Black and Hispanic workers are overrepresented in the 30 occupations with the highest exposure to automation and underrepresented in the 30 occupations with the lowest exposure. While AI might help workers get more done in less time, and this increased productivity could increase wages of those employed, it could lead to a severe loss of wages for those whose jobs are displaced. A 2021 paper found that wage... read more >

Obvious and interesting point in this debate. I still don’t know why it matters why/how a decision gets made. For me, the question is only “is this the right decision?”. Poor or good reasons, even if we can know them, don’t justify or excuse a poor decision. Incidentally, this is no different than how we think about human beings. The reasons for a decision might be interesting or even informative, but they don’t make the decision itself good or bad. ”Take the right to explainability of how an algorithm comes to a decision. ‘That’s virtually impossible when it comes to black-box models like... read more >

"Here, we focus on four superpowers that will help CEOs address the organizational upheavals around them: the competitive advantage of speed, the power of harnessing technologies that augment human capabilities, the importance of focusing on “forgotten” talent, and a new style of leadership that is more self-aware and in tune with the times."—All change: The new era of perpetual organizational upheaval  read more >

"Two-thirds of them tell us that their organizations are overly complex and inefficient, while only about half say their organizations are well prepared for the change that is needed. Rather than facilitating delivery of mission and strategy, organizational structures are standing in their way."— All change: The new era of perpetual organizational upheaval  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 >

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 >

“Technology and society are driving changes faster than your people can adapt. According to the OECD, 1.1 billion jobs will be disrupted in the next five years. Employees the world over require upskilling (learning to improve current work) and reskilling (learning to do new types of work).”—Build a Strong Learning Culture on Your Team  read more >

“The most at-risk industries are “administrative support” estimated at 46% and “legal” estimated at 44%. The least at-risk roles will be within manual labor and hands-on jobs. The timeline of these estimates is unclear, but potentially within ten years.”—Artificial Intelligence Series 2 Of 5: AI’s Influence On The Workforce  read more >

Exploring how human capital remains central to ethical digital transformation, focusing on upskilling and reskilling strategies for emerging technologies. read more >

“AI Brings Needed Scale And Precision To Marketing The meteoric rise of generative AI marks both a beginning and ending for marketing creativity as we know it.” —How Marketing Creativity Is Revolutionized By Generative AI  read more >

There’s a wide range of possible effects of the use of AI at work. Some people will use AI as a tool, augmenting their value. Some don’t have value outside of what AI can produce. The biggest point is that everyone needs to learn how to use this tool or be replaced. “The most common use cases for AI will likely be saving workers time so they can concentrate on higher-value work or adding additional value to their work. A graphic designer, writer or software developer, for example, can often be more productive with AI-generated first drafts. But that additional productivity won’t necessarily...... read more >

“During the first three months of 2023, U.S. office vacancy topped 20 percent for the first time in decades. In San Francisco, Dallas, and Houston, vacancy rates are as high as 25 percent. These figures understate the severity of the crisis because they only cover spaces that are no longer leased. Most office leases were signed before the pandemic and have yet to come up for renewal. Actual office use points to a further decrease in demand. Attendance in the 10 largest business districts is still below 50 percent of its pre-COVID level, as white-collar employees spend an estimated 28 percent...... read more >

“While each organization is unique, common patterns of mindsets and processes appear over time, often associated with different technologies, in different contexts and eras. While the patterns of management vary widely, the concept of management is timeless.” —A New Way To Depict Digital Transformation  read more >

“Get automatic recommendations to remove bottlenecks, reallocate resources, and hit your goals.”—AI for Work & Project Management  read more >

There's never a news story when a copywriter is replaced by a human copywriter. “The Washington Post reported this week on two copywriters who lost their livelihoods because employers (or clients) decided that ChatGPT could perform the job at a cheaper price.”—AI eliminated nearly 4,000 jobs in May, report says  read more >

“Artificial intelligence contributed to nearly 4,000 job losses last month” —AI eliminated nearly 4,000 jobs in May, report says  read more >

“While each organization is unique, common patterns of mindsets and processes appear over time, often associated with different technologies, in different contexts and eras. While the patterns of management vary widely, the concept of management is timeless.” —A New Way To Depict Digital Transformation  read more >

“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 content.”—The AI in Business Trend Report 2023: Insights, Use Cases, and Sentiments from 500 Professionals  read more >

"Users also ranked creativity as the number one skill necessary to use the technology efficiently, followed by prompt engineering, strategy and editing."—Essential Skills for Efficient Technology Use  read more >

"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 content.” (The AI in Business Trend Report 2023: Insights, Use Cases, and Sentiments from 500 Professionals)  read more >

Goldman Sachs reported this week in a sobering and alarming report about AI's ascendance. The investment bank estimates 300 million jobs could be lost or diminished by this fast-growing technology. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/03/31/goldman-sachs-predicts-300-million-jobs-will-be-lost-or-degraded-by-artificial-intelligence/  read more >

"I think we’re going to be back to purpose. What is your mission? Because now you can accomplish your mission. What is your worthy mission that’s going to attract people to work with you?" (How Generative AI Changes Productivity)  read more >