Wed.Oct 05, 2016

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4 Ways Every Business Needs To Use Artificial Intelligence

Digital Tonto

We are entering a new era of cognitive collaboration in which machines become far more than just agents to perform tasks, but help us to understand the world and make better decisions. Related. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Machine Learning-Powered Chatbots Move Beyond Apps

Daniel Burrus

Users are looking for more than the humble SMS text message to communicate with friends and family. Our communication requirements now demand group messaging capabilities with the ability to seamlessly share an image or video on the move. Apple’s iMessage, WhatsApp and Facebook’s Messenger are leading the way, but the recent release of Google Allo suggests that messaging has become the new tech battleground.

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Study Reveals the Strong Returns from Investing in Innovation

Innovation Excellence

For those of us who are on board with the merits of innovation, it can seem obvious that innovating is a good thing. Ok, we might accept that innovation is not always done very well and the results could therefore be a bit of a let down, but overall, innovating is better than not innovating.

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Make it work.

Mike Shipulski

If you think something can’t be done, it won’t get done. And if you think it may be possible, or is possible, it may get done. Those are the rules. If an expert says it will work, it will work. If they say it won’t work, it might. Experts can tell you will work, but can’t tell you what won’t. If your boss tells you it won’t work, it might. Give it a try.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Barriers to Innovation? Find Creativity’s Sweet Spot!

Innovation Excellence

It’s easy to think that innovation is about resources – throw enough money, smart minds, and clever technology at the problem and the answer will surely follow. But the history of ideas suggests there is another pathway. Sometimes the very absence of resources is what galvanises innovation. Think about these examples: Back in 1943.

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Comment on Innovation Minute #20: Expertise is the Enemy of Innovation by Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Funny you say that. I always joke that if expertise is the enemy of innovation, then an innovation expert can’t innovate. This is why I spend a lot of my time NOT studying innovation but rather neuroscience, psychology, sports performance and magic. These help me break free of the traditional ways of thinking about innovation. Thanks!

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Comment on Innovation Minute #20: Expertise is the Enemy of Innovation by Chuck Noland

Stephen Shapiro

I guess that means we should never listen to experts on innovation, because they obviously have thought about it too much.

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Amex Exec on New Capabilities & Spreading a ‘Growth Mindset’

Innovation Leader

Amex’s Lei Chen viewed her role as having three main components. Task number one: “[Find] the right talent in place to embrace the innovation that’s opened up by technology.

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The Real Value of Confusion

Idea Champions

Are you confused about how to proceed with your hottest project? Baffled? Bamboozled? If so, take heart! Confusion is not always a bad thing. In fact, it's often a necessary part of the creative process. The weirdness enters when you start judging yourself for being confused. Then, instead of benefiting from this normal stage of "not knowing" you end up in endless rounds of self-talk, procrastination, and worry.