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Medium
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Understanding the AI Frontier: Balancing Automation and Cognitive Skills for the Future

AI improved performance by up to 42.5% on tasks where its capabilities aligned well, but decreased performance by up to 24% on more complex tasks.
The study highlighted the importance of a balanced approach to utilizing AI in knowledge tasks, showcasing two distinct patterns of human-AI interaction. [ more ]
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Two thirds of workers think AI will take over more jobs than it creates survey

Nearly two in three workers in the UK think the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) will take away more jobs that it will create, but many fewer are worried about their own prospects, a new study has suggested.In a poll taken earlier this month before BT said it might lose around 10,000 workers to AI by the end of the decade, 62% of working Britons said that robotics and AI would take over more jobs than they create.
Business Insider
1 year ago
Remote teams

Companies want to know how many people are back in the office. They're using water coolers to find out.

Bevi, a Boston startup, makes high-tech water coolers that collect usage data.Some investors and hedge funds are using this data to track America's return to office trends, Bloomberg reported.The tracking places Bevi in the middle of a debate between remote workers and their employers.As companies adjust to a world of remote and hybrid work schedules, an unusual tool is emerging to help businesses keep track of their workers - the water cooler.
Acm
1 year ago
Digital life

LinkedIn Ran Undisclosed Social Experiments on 20 Million Users for Years to Study Job Success

A new study analyzing the data of over 20 million LinkedIn users over the timespan of five years reveals that our acquaintances may be more helpful in finding a new job than close friends.
BBC Sport
1 year ago
Soccer (FIFA)

Noble to return to West Ham as sporting director

The ex-midfielder ended his playing career this summer after making 550 appearances for the Hammers.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

Lawrence D. Ackman, a Cityscape's Financier, Dies at 83

A behind-the-scenes power in New York, he helped the city's leading developers fulfill their skyscraping ambitions.
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Arts

Ali Wong's divorce news causes another case of #wrongasian

The real Justin Hakuta, pictured alongside comedian Ali Wong in 2019.
ComputerWeekly.com
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence: Business leaders start to realise the risks | Computer Weekly

A Gartner survey of 2,500 executive leaders has found that almost half (45%) say publicity of ChatGPT has prompted them to increase artificial intelligence (AI) investments.The survey reported that 70% of executives said their organisations are investigating the use of AI while 19% are in pilot or have deployed AI in production.
Adlibweb
2 years ago
Marketing

Why online businesses must invest in experienced SEO services?

As a business startup, you might find these contradicting thoughts confusing and so it is crucial to get the right information to make an informed decision.
The AC Milan Offside
1 year ago
AC Milan

AC Milan Get A New Chief Financial Officer In Experienced Board Member

AC Milan have officially announced on their website the appointment of Stefano Cocirio, Member of the Board of Directors since 2018, as Chief Financial Officer of the Club.As CFO, reporting directly to CEO Giorgio Furlani, Cocirio has been chosen to coordinate AC Milan's finance, administration, treasury, management control and purchasing areas, to strengthen the structure in the constant process of growth and development, while actively participating in strategic managerial decisions.
MIT Sloan Management Review
1 year ago
Marketing

Why Digital Ability Trumps IQ

Research Highlight
How P&G assessed the digital marketing ability of its managers to achieve transformation success.In 2013, as fast-emerging digital technologies and channels were creating a sea change in consumer product marketing, A.G. Lafley, then CEO of Procter & Gamble, acted to ensure that the consumer packaged goods giant would not be left behind.
Business Insider
1 year ago
Remote teams

Marc Benioff may be right that Salesforce's young, remote employees are hurting the company's productivity. But it's not their fault.

Salesforce's CEO said the company's younger, remote workers might be less productive than peers.Remote work may indeed be uniquely challenging for employees earlier in their careers.But the problem can come down to the way remote employees are trained, managed, and evaluated.It's easy to assume remote workers are slackers.
Theregister
1 year ago
Tech industry

Alexa and Gmail: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free

Opinion Consequences can come at you fast or slow.If you're a trillion-dollar company, you get to choose which, a bit, but you can never escape completely.Amazon is burning billions on Alexa because voice assistants need massive infrastructure but can't be monetized.Google Cloud is $700 million in the red as of last earnings and heading south to a state of madness like a New Jersey retiree.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Canada news

Alexa, is the voice-assistant industry doomed? | CBC News

A recent report indicating that Amazon's Alexa division is on track to lose $10 billion US this year is raising questions about the future of the entire voice-assistant industry."I think there is a next-generation battle for voice assistance that will require very, very deep pockets to survive," said Andy Wu, an assistant professor of business administration in the strategy unit at Harvard Business School.
Washington Post
1 year ago
DC food

Review | A Disney scion takes on the Mouse House in 'The American Dream'

"The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales" begins like a personal essay.
Bitcoin
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Billionaire Seth Klarman: I Can't See the Point of Crypto - Nobody Needs to Own It

Seth Klarman on Crypto Investing, Gold, and U.S. Dollar
Boston.com
2 years ago
Boston

Harvard study: Just 1 to 2 days in office per week is most effective

"We found that [the] group which spent between 23 and 40 percent in the physical office, they did the best."
The Mercury News
2 years ago
Remote teams

1 or 2 days in the office the 'sweet spot' of hybrid work, study shows

Just one or two days in the office is the ideal setup for hybrid work, according to a new study, as it provides workers with the flexibility they crave without the isolation of going fully remote.
East Bay Times
2 years ago
Remote teams

1 or 2 days in the office the 'sweet spot' of hybrid work, study shows

Just one or two days in the office is the ideal setup for hybrid work, according to a new study, as it provides workers with the flexibility they crave without the isolation of going fully remote.
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