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AI vs. BI: Differences and Synergies
The History of Remote Work, 1560-Present (with Infographic) (Updated)
Deconstructing Jobs: How Innovative Companies Are Reimagining Work
Toxic Communication in Virtual Workspaces: A Looming Liability for Remote and Hybrid Companies
5 Lessons From Fast-growing Tech, Energy, and Fintech Companies
Navigating the Next Normal: Fortune 500 Executives on the Future of Talent

The End of Traditional Employment—The Other Gig Economy

How to Build Culture in Remote Teams
Culture is king in successful organizations. ....... the unique challenges of managing a distributed team can incentivize the creation of a stronger culture than those that operate face-to-face. This may seem counter-intuitive, but while local teams tend to assume culture will take root organically, the stakes are higher for distributed organizations. This motivates successful remote executives to be intentional about building culture, ultimately resulting in stronger teams. ...... defines culture as a pattern of basic assumptions and values, discovered or developed by a group, which are proven to lead to success.......... These assumptions typically include answers to questions of “Why do we exist?” and “How do we do what we do?” We find it is helpful to ask: “What is our true north?” ........

The PRD Isn’t Dead: New Best Practices for Digital Product Development
Perfect Pizza: Using a Digital Customer Research Tool to Measure Taste
Two Roadmaps Diverged: Strategic and Tactical Routes to Product Development

Inside Toptal’s Product Team . .

Journey Mapping: A Product Development Process Case Study
How to Keep Your Slack Workspace Ready for Connection
How to Build and Sustain a Remote Culture With over 4,000 people across more than 100 countries, Toptal has mastered the art of attracting and retaining premier talent in a remote environment. Leaders at the company attribute its success to its corporate culture, which serves as the foundation for everything they do. ....... Leaders at the company attribute its success to its corporate culture, which serves as the foundation for everything they do. ......... “If you don’t have the right culture, the whole thing is going to collapse” ...... “When you go from on-site to remote, you learn the importance of having the right frameworks.” .......... four key habits that helped it build a vibrant company culture. .

The Suddenly Remote Playbook The COVID-19 pandemic circling the world transformed the gradual advance of remote work into a stampede, compelling millions of people to abandon the office and go home.



Build a Massive Transformative Purpose There is one core trait that separates the best from the rest. All of them have a powerful purpose statement they share with the world. If I said to you "Occupy Mars" who would you think of? .......... It helps you decide what to do, and more importantly what not to do. It’s both your fuel and your filter. ......... Everything I have created and will create is born out of my MTP. ........

METATREND #11: EMERGENCE OF THE METAVERSE/WEB3

Artificial Intelligence

2022 Was the Year AI Finally Started Living Up to Its Hype Ever since deep learning burst into the mainstream in 2012, the hype around AI research has often outpaced its reality. Over the past year though, a series of breakthroughs and major milestones suggest the technology may finally be living up to its promise. ........ In the last year, however, there has been an undeniable step change in the capabilities of AI systems ....... these AI systems and their outputs are become increasingly visible and accessible to ordinary people. ....... the results they have produced in 2022 have blown previous iterations out of the water. ...... ChatGPT, an AI chatbot based on the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT-3 large language model. ........ and even produce convincing prose and poetry. ....... another OpenAI model called DALL-E 2 took the internet by storm with its ability to generate hyper-realistic images in response to prompts as bizarre as “a raccoon playing tennis at Wimbledon in the 1990s” and “Spider-Man from ancient Rome.” ........ could produce short video clips from text prompts ....... can generate music in the style of an audio clip it is played. ........

could replace traditional search engines, kill the college essay, and lead to the death of art.

........ services like ChatGPT, DALL-E 2, and text-to-image generator Midjourney open to everyone for free ........ an AI-powered code generator that the company said could match the average programmer in coding competitions. ....... had predicted the structure of almost every protein known to science, setting up a potential revolution in both the life sciences and drug discovery. ........ had trained its AI to control the roiling plasmas found inside experimental fusion reactors. ......... an AI that ranked in the top 10 percent of players in the board game Diplomacy, which requires a challenging combination of strategy and natural language negotiation with other players .......... trained an AI to play the complex 3D videogame Minecraft using only high-level natural language instructions. ........ DeepMind cracked the devilishly complicated game Stratego, which involves long-term planning, bluffing, and a healthy dose of uncertainty. ........... highly convincing bullshit generators. They are trained on enormous amounts of text of variable quality from the internet. And ultimately all they do is guess what text is most likely to come after a prompt, with no capacity to judge the truthfulness of their output. This has raised concerns that the internet may soon be flooded with huge amounts of convincing-looking nonsense. ............. would produce convincing-sounding material that was completely wrong or highly biased .......... ChatGPT, which despite filters put in place by OpenAI can be tricked into saying that only white and Asian men make good scientists. ............. self-driving cars, has seen significant setbacks, with the closure of Ford and Volkswagen-backed Argo, Tesla fending off claims of fraud over its failure to deliver “full self-driving,” and a growing chorus of voices claiming the industry is stuck in a rut. .......... deep learning is reaching its limits, as it’s not capable of truly understanding any of the material it’s being trained on and is instead simply learning to make statistical connections that can produce convincing but often flawed results. ........ the next big breakthroughs will come from multi-modal models that combine increasingly powerful capabilities in everything from text to imagery and audio

The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent My avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors.

https://singularityhub.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/

Great article by @EddytheGent on #AI https://t.co/SmgoR6Etwd @tonytonggg

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 4, 2023

Immigration is pure entrepreneurship. You leave behind everything familiar to start somewhere new. You must acquire skills. You will have to improvise on occasion. It’s a bold proposition.

— Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) September 27, 2022

Groceries are 13.1% more expensive than last year, but donations to @2ndharvest, Silicon Valley's local food bank, are down 37% from two years ago.

Grateful to be joining with @SusanWojcicki and @annewoj23 in triple-matching donations through 12/31.https://t.co/DhB4AqQ1d4 https://t.co/jOYLfrwlMs

— Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) December 27, 2022

Thanks to DALL-E, the Race to Make Artificial Protein Drugs Is On
The Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: The World Has Changed Fast—What Might Be Next?
AI Timelines: What Do Experts in Artificial Intelligence Expect for the Future?