Tag: AI
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Link: Women more at risk of job automation
In 2017, ONS found 1.5 million roles in England were at risk of having elements of their tasks automated, including roles such as retail cashiers, manufacturing plant employees and waiting staff, many of which are more likely to be filled by women. Source: Women more at risk of job automation
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Link: Facebook’s local news project frustrated – by lack of local newspapers
The definition of not enough: The company deems a community unsuitable for Today In if it cannot find a single day in a month with at least five news items available to share. And: Some 1,800 newspapers have closed in the US over the last 15 years, according to the University of North Carolina. Newsroom…
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🗂 Why the eight-hour workday doesn’t work
> The ideal work-to-break ratio was 52 minutes of work, followed by 17 minutes of rest. qz.com/work/1561…
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🗂 Geico Walks with Watson on AI Journey
Replacing human agents with AI, matching it to the right sales workflow: > “So we watched how this was going very closely,” he said. “We’d review transcripts from the early customer interactions, verbatim transcripts, to see how people are reacting in a conversation with Watson – because they didn’t know it was Watson.” > >…
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🗂 Digital Transformation, IT, and the Rest of the Company – The New Stack
thenewstack.io/digital-t…
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🗂 ‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
Better predicting, targeting, and driving people to buy shit: > While the general modus operandi of Google, Facebook et al has been known and understood (at least by some people) for a while, what has been missing – and what Zuboff provides – is the insight and scholarship to situate them in a wider context.…
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🗂 Kubernetes, what it’s for
> The reason that Kubernetes is successful is because people look at it and they don’t understand why they need it until they see it do stuff. Then they say “Oh my God, I need that!”I can’t say how many talks and presentations I’ve done in front of skeptical audiences where they don’t understand what…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #45
I’ve spent most of my content-time this week editing Monolithic Transformation. It’s rewording to simplify text here and there, and even better to slice out whole paragraphs. 18 pages in, I’ve reduced it by 3 pages. Let’s say I hit 1 page per 10, then the 82 page book will whittle down to, what, 74…
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Link: Singapore Airlines employees urged to innovate, fail without fear
There needs to be a place where you can fail and there’s no implication to your career. [The innovation lab] is a safety net. Anyone in the company can take a day in a week to work with the team [at the lab] and innovate together and talk through the idea. Original source: Singapore Airlines…
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Link: Enterprises to spend almost $2 trillion on digital transformation by 2022
“Industry spending on DX technologies is being driven by core innovation accelerator technologies with IoT and cognitive computing leading the race in terms of overall spend,” said Eileen Smith, program director with IDC’s Customer Insights and Analysis Group. “The introduction of IoT sensors and communications capabilities is rapidly transforming manufacturing processes as well as asset…
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Link: Cyber Airmen fuel innovation
Any problems discovered in the software can be more easily corrected, a small failure being preferable to correcting the shortfalls of an entire software suite. Changes requested by the customer can sometimes be delivered in just a couple days. Prior to Jigsaw, the tanker mission planners would use whiteboards to plot out their fueling rendezvous.…
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Link: The new tech effecting culture outline
The trajectory of books about new technologies follows a similar pattern: first, hype; then, backlash; then, finally, a more considered view of what it might actually be good for. Yup. Checks out. Original source: The new tech effecting culture outline
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Link: USAF’s plans for agile, DevOps, cloud
Brief, but some names of apps they’ve modernized and high-level thinking in the broader portfolio modernization. Original source: USAF’s plans for agile, DevOps, cloud
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Link: The Air Force Will Treat Computer Coding Like a Foreign Language
For example, when Defense Innovation Unit went to air operations centers in Middle East, the defense tech expert envisioned software changes that would optimize the way that airmen tracked refueling tankers. Teaming up with a commercial firm in Boston called Pivotal Labs, the new software is saving about $200,000 in fuel every month. It’s usually…
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Link: When Concorde was the future
“Concorde was pitched at the business set of the 1970s, with all of its 106 seats priced at first-class levels. With its own dedicated lounge at the airports it served, even the check-in and waiting experience was luxurious: possibly more so than the aircraft itself, which despite its leather seating had tiny windows, a low…
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Link: New Common Sense Media survey finds more positives than negatives in teen use of social media
‘“Overall, Common Sense said teens are more likely to view social media as a good thing in their emotional lives. For example, 16 percent said using social media makes them feel less depressed and 25 percent said they feel less lonely, compared to 3 percent who said social media use made them feel more depressed…
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Link: Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition
“Consider this: how well can you discern different shades of blue? If you speak Russian, Greek, Turkish, Korean or Japanese, your chances are much better than if you speak English. The former groups have two distinctive linguistic representations of blue. In Russian, for example, dark blue (sinii) and light blue (goluboi) are as distinct as…
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Link: Transform Your Corporate Culture With These 5 Proven Steps
“A 2017 Gallup report found only 33 percent of US employees said they were engaged at work. This surprisingly low rate has serious consequences: their actively disengaged colleagues are estimated to have cost the US between $483 and $605 billion annually in lost productivity.” Original source: Transform Your Corporate Culture With These 5 Proven Steps
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Link: New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round
“The company says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in recent months” Original source: New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round
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