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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

One area where Goodhart’s Law gets even more dangerous is in target-based software development, especially Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos. That way it could not die. However, other examples are not so harmless.

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

It is then through managing your future development, mostly through research and development, that when combined with a sound acquisition strategy, that you believe will then augment your present internal growth and look to sustain the business. In reality, its free cash flow can’t pay its obligations. Could this have been foreseen?

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Great Teams: An Interview with Don Yaeger

Michael Roberto

His newest book is titled, Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently. You focus in the book on the notion that great sports teams build a strong high-performance culture. Targeting Purpose— The team is connected to a greater purpose. Targeting Purpose— The team is connected to a greater purpose.

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Co-creating volume 3

Innovation 360 Group

World leaders met and easily exceeded the UN’s prior goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. In contrast, strategies based on Technology Drivers investigate problems, many of them unarticulated, and explore how the latest developments are reshaping various sectors.

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Co-creating volume 3

Innovation 360

World leaders met and easily exceeded the UN’s prior goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. In contrast, strategies based on Technology Drivers investigate problems, many of them unarticulated, and explore how the latest developments are reshaping various sectors.