Tue.Nov 15, 2016

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Adobe just demonstrated “Photoshop for voice” and I now can’t trust anymore

Idea to Value

For decades, people have been able to improve the quality of pictures using image editing software like Adobe Photoshop. Now, Adobe has just demonstrated a new tool they are working on, which could have an even bigger impact. It’s called VoCo, and it analyses people’s speech soundwaves to make it easy to change what a person said. Check out the video above for a quite terrifying demonstration.

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5 Ways to Still Complete Your Strategic Planning for 2017

BrainZooming

Are you still working on your strategic planning for 2017 ? Or, are you still waiting to launch your strategic planning for 2017? Or is strategic planning for the next year something your organization just neglects to do? If you answered “Yes” to the first or second questions, or even to the third one, but you know you SHOULD do planning for next year, time is running out. 5 Ways to Still Complete Your Strategic Planning for 2017.

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Anticipatory Accounting and Finance

Daniel Burrus

Investors know the value of being anticipatory. In a world characterized by exponential change, the accounting industry has an opportunity to incorporate that same mindset into everyday practices and procedures—in more ways than one. The Netflix Paradox. The field of accounting has traditionally labored under a challenging paradox when it comes to reporting organizations’ financial activity—using past performance as one gauge of future prospects.

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How we use hackathons to accelerate corporate innovation & attract talent

Your Ideas are Terrible

What do you picture when you think about a “hackathon”? A conference room full of empty pizza boxes? A scene from the movie The Social Network? Black t-shirts and Macbook Airs? Many of our corporate clients ask us for advice about planning and running hackathons. How much should we budget? How do we handle IP? How can I sell the opportunity to executive leadership?

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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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War games and the forgetting challenge

Innovation Excellence

One of the hardest challenges facing any organization that aspires to innovate is overcoming the existing orthodoxy. This is especially so when that orthodoxy has become a successful and well celebrated part of your company’s past, and has led to the successful rise through the ranks of many of your senior executives. It’s a topic.

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Adobe just demonstrated “Photoshop for voice” and I now can’t trust anymore

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For decades, people have been able to improve the quality of pictures using image editing software like Adobe Photoshop. Now, Adobe has just demonstrated a new tool they are working on, which could have an even bigger impact. It’s called VoCo, and it analyses people’s speech soundwaves to make it easy to change what a […]. Originally published at Adobe just demonstrated “Photoshop for voice” and I now can’t trust anymore.

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Company Culture Through Grassroots Innovation

Innovation Leader

Christopher Bailey of ExxonMobil, discusses operationally-focused innovation and how ExxonMobil promotes innovation through its Grassroots Innovation Forum.

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Doubts about "Choice Overload"

Michael Roberto

Edmund Andrews has written a good article about the research of Stanford Professor Itamar Simonson and colleagues. Andrews discusses how Simonson's latest work challenges the commonly held view about "choice overload" that has become popular in recent years. Andrews writes: For well over a decade, researchers in consumer behavior have debated whether the ever-expanding array of goods creates “choice overload” that can actually discourage people from buying.

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Five Strategies for Infusing VR Design with Empathy

Boxes and Arrows

The desert was frigid and the sun was just peeking over the mountains when we arrived at the Mojave Air & Space Port. A full-scale rocket prototype at the end of a long driveway marked the spaceport’s entrance. I was just a walk away from realizing a small part of a big dream: being part of space exploration. Space travel and participation in the space economy are pretty much impossible for all but the most elite scientists, astronauts, and billionaires.

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