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The Data Binge REFRESH | AI & HUMANITY $$PLAIN_TEXT_PREVIEW$$
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The Technology, The People, and The Ideas
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Welcome to this REFRESH monthly update, where I’m sharing provocative ideas from discussions focused on the human relationship with technology. In Special 🎊 Celebration of *Black History Month* February’s discussions will focus on elevating the voices of black leaders and allies that are contributing to causes that strengthen the black community. February is officially designated as "Black History Month" - an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans, and for recognizing their central role in U.S. History. 📚 Learn more about the celebration of Black History Month, and the annual theme for 2021. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Upcoming Collaborations
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The Last Mile is a non-profit breaking the mass incarceration cycle by combating recidivism through in-person education and post-release mentorship, focused on coding and software engineering. Join the LinkedIn 🎬 LIVE 🎬 discussion | February 2nd, 12-130pm PST ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ My Monthly FavoritesHere are some things that I’ve discovered or that have been shared with me over the past month, that ignited thoughtful reflection and brought me 🔥 ENERGY. The Fulfillment of Goals: Goals are a funny thing that everyone talks about but hardly any of us execute upon, but it’s no longer funny when you achieve them - it almost feels 🙏🏽spiritual 🙏🏽, doesn’t it? (only ~19% of us actually achieve our goals when set) When is the last time you really visited your goals, and reflected upon 1) why they are important, 2) how you would achieve them, and 3) how they would change your life? Energy: ⚡️“Align Yourself With THINGS That ENERGIZE You” ⚡️ - I came across Mel Robbins, an American on-air CNN commentator, speaker, and TV personality. Mel focuses on why ENERGY, is where we get our passion. What if we each mapped out our efforts, possessions, and people in our lives, and doubled down on the areas that gave us energy? Book of the Month: A coach of mine, sent me “Handbook to Higher Consciousness”, its a gentle walkthrough of how we can all make our planet, a “here and now paradise” - a beautiful read. More than anything, I’m learning more about how to love myself, and how impactful this is in loving others. More captured in the image below 👇🏽.
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The above (4) quadrants are a bit of an investment to ingest, digest, and then execute with as tools across our emotional realities - it’s an investment worth exploring if you are looking for deeper peace.
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Recent EpisodesThe New Year was jumpstarted with some great conversations around AI. Not so much the technology, the data, or the tools that make AI successful, but the humans that drive, collaborate, and learn WITH the 🤖 machines 🤖 that we are co-evolving with. Yes, a co-evolution. In the latest series of episodes, the human experience is reflected in how to successfully approach AI technology, and, how to work hand in hand with it. AI will not replace us if used correctly. It will merely “augment” us, if we are responsible enough to respect, and accept it.
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#58. Chad Oda & Derek Russell | Identifying Opportunities for AI |Advocacy, Execution, and Culture Change
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What I learnedChad Oda, host of the Chat Mode Insight Series - a sharing of best practices, information, and insights around everything chatbots, voice and AI technology, engages with me in this discussion around AI adoption, program management, and the realities of accelerating successful AI projects. One of the biggest lessons I’ve taken away from my time working at Microsoft, deploying technology with the largest businesses in the world, is the grounding idea of advocacy, and the importance of advocacy in everything we do within an organization. Most discussions about AI concentrate on tooling, coding languages, infrastructure, and yes, those fancy AI models 📊. None of those things are nearly as important as one’s ability to clearly communicate ideas and generate energy quickly, with consensus, around topics that matter to the mission of the organization (or that matter to as many people within that organization as possible). [25:40] “Understanding scope, commitment, and time horizon and the problem…, all of those things pour the bedrock for credibility, you HAVE to have credibility when you come to the conversation.”
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We can so easily get wrapped up in technology. process, or politics (people), but most business problems can be distilled into advocacy problems. If we can get this right first, then we’ll have a better chance at getting the AI right. What are some ways you can better build consensus, energy, and excitement into whatever challenges you are facing at home or in career? How can focusing on how you advocate your ideas, change how they are understood and accepted? Read more on how to advocate your ideas. ——————
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Connect with Chad Oda from Chat Mode. Learn more
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Simply Tech LIVE is a live video production co-hosted by Ali Mazaheri and I, featuring discussions with technologists, business practitioners, and academics about the evolving landscape of tech in the Microsoft ecosystem and beyond.
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Applied
& Collaborative AI | Transforming Energy & Utility Safety &
Inspection
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What I learnedMeet Erik Åsberg, Chief Technology Officer of eSmart Systems - an applied AI solution that is transforming the way the world's leading energy providers inspect and maintain critical infrastructure. In parallel to Erik's CTO leadership at eSmart, he was also was nominated to be a Microsoft Regional Director - a 2 year program reserved by nomination only, recognizing the world's top technology visionaries. I really loved this conversation with Erik, not only was it great to get some international perspective on tech (Erik joined us from Halden, Norway), but Erik’s perspective also brings with it some very technical aperture into the world of video and imaging AI - something we’re all looking at closely nowadays, from both a policy and an automation perspective. Let’s take a look at a really hard to solve problem, 🔥 wildfires 🔥. According to the National Interagency Fire Center - In California, to date, 52,834 wildfires have burned 9,539,554 acres, the second most acres burned in the past 10 years. Large utilities, can be held responsible for loss of life and loss of assets when things like downed lines, vegetation encroachment, or apparatus failures lead to catastrophic events - fires. Read more about how California’s largest utility pled guilty to 84 felony counts of manslaughter for the November 18th “Campfire” - the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century. —————— What does AI have to do with wildfires? There are huge amounts of engineers, maintenance teams, and risk analysts that examine aging assets of energy and utility infrastructure for flaws, degradations, and anomalies - the reality is, they can’t catch every single one. Humans fatigue, they miss things, they are indeed human. Machines are better at catching the fatal anomalies, that can lead to critically devastating events.
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The AI from eSmart Systems is not here to “replace” humans, it’s here to collaborate with and augment their capabilities. Engineers can teach the AI when to look at specific items of interest, and guide the AI to focus its learning processes on things based on human experience and expertise. Collaborative AI. |
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[28:20] That’s what we call collaborative AI, where we work together with the engineers that do the inspection, and we improve the AI continuously by working with them” - Erik Åsberg
—————— What exactly is the risk to AI replacing us humans? According to the economist, it’s quite high - but while AI could replace many of our jobs, it’s also creating new avenues and opportunities for workers to participate in the job market elsewhere, doing jobs that we actually rather do - vs looking at images of electrical poles for 10 hours a day. ⬇️ Research and interviews featured in the Economist ⬇️ “Good” automation generates large productivity increases, and its transformative nature leads to the creation of many new tasks (and therefore jobs) for humans.” - Daron Acemoglu, MIT
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Will your job be replaced with AI, or do you think you will become more of a human and AI collaboration engine, delivering higher performance and more accurate work that will actually challenge you?
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Highlights✴️ The inherent challenges that energy and utility infrastructure is facing, ranging from routine maintenance to wildfire and catastrophic event prevention, and how applied and collaborative AI can meet these challenges. ✴️ The importance of human and machine cooperation and collaboration, and how subject matter experts can join forces with AI solutions across use cases and industries. ✴️ Technology leadership and the evolving business impact of the Chief Technology Officer: education, technology, and the future of business management. Connect with Erik Åsberg at eSmart Systems. Learn More
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