For years I’ve been interviewing data annotation workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry. For years I’ve heard the same story: the platforms they work for wield total power, leaving them precarious & vulnerable to exploitation. A horrible example of this just happened 1/
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Mental Health Quotient: Essential Business Metric for Companies
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Companies will soon recognize that the Employee Mental Health Quotient is as essential as revenue growth, EBITDA, and Net Promoter Score.
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Personal Development as Continuous Improvement Process
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Personal development is a continuous improvement process about how to use yourself effectively and efficiently.
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Female Leadership and AI: Business and Societal Imperative
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[#Article] Female leadership in the AI era: a business, strategic and societal imperative according to IBM EMEA https://actuia.com/actualite/le-leadership-feminin-a-lere-de-lia-un-imperatif-commercial-strategique-et-societal-selon-ibm-emea/
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Devin AI Agent Autonomously Plans, Codes and Debugs
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A glimpse of the future of AI at work: I got early access to Devin, the "AI developer" – it is slow & breaks often, but you can start to see what an AI agent can do. It makes a plan and executes it autonomously, doing research, writing code & debugging, without you watching.
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Learning Goals Enhance Team Performance and Knowledge Transfer
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To make teams better, "set learning-based goals for knowledge development, knowledge re-use (knowledge that could be used for future projects), and knowledge transfer (knowledge that could be useful to other teams)." as well as performance goals. Paper: http://
eprints.lse.ac.uk/101239/1/Getti
ng_to_know_you._Motivating_cross_understanding_for_team_and_individual_performance.pdf
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Teams Learn Together Perform Better Than Task-Focused Groups
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Teams need to focus on learning, not just doing. When teams focus only on getting a job done, they perform worse than teams that also spend time learning from each other. Groups should be encouraged to think about learning for the future, not just on what they are doing now.
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Pi-Shaped Data Scientist: Flashback to 2014 Article
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Flashback! Rewind to this article written in 2014 >> The π (Pi)-shaped #DataScientist: https://
jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/08/2
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Devin AI Software Engineer: Beyond the Hype and Capabilities
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People are FREAKING OUT over Devin.
— Rob Lennon 🗯 | AI Whisperer (@thatroblennon) 14 mars 2024
While this AI software engineer can
• write and debug code
• pass engineering interviews
• do Upwork jobs…
that’s not what impresses me.
Here’s what you should take away from this launch:
So, to review:
Devin is an AI software… pic.twitter.com/Nr8rb5q4cSPeople are FREAKING OUT over Devin. While this AI software engineer can
• write and debug code
• pass engineering interviews
• do Upwork jobs… that’s not what impresses me. Here’s what you should take away from this launch: So, to review: Devin is an AI software -
Balancing Writing Time Amid Modern Labor Pressures
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I feel the same way, and started getting up at 5am to do a few hrs of writing when I can. Also the feeling of scrambling is a core component of current labor processes, tools, expectations. So feel it, as we all do, but be nice to yourself because you're wonderful and do so much.