AI and Cross-Functional Data Management: Ambivalence and Ambiguity This past week highlighted the ambivalence and ambiguity surrounding "AI" and its use in cross-functional data management. On the one hand, Verizon and Amazon are both proclaiming the impacts AI will have for CX (customer experience). On the other, problems
AI
Space X's latest explosion and the sharp decline in Tesla's stock had our team curious about Neuralink. Initially, after some advances in the human in vivo experiments, Neuralink hit an obstacle: the threads were retracting from the brain, slowing down the data speeds and effectiveness of
Coffee with JP returns with JP discussing current and historic events in light of the Hachette vs. Internet Archive decision. In it JP covers: 1) Singular XQ and the need for disinterested (read not financially vested) research. Help us stay independent! 2) Aaron Swartz and Open Access 3) Fair Use
It's the Beer O'Clock Newsletter from Knowledge Capital on Linked In. This next bid at AI hype prize made a splash recently: lab grown brains running first living computer in Switzerland. 16 lab-grown brains run world’s first ‘living computer’ in SwitzerlandThe bioprocessor platform consists of
Carol Burnett
Someone in a formal interview asked me today about my biggest achievement, and I thought of some things on my LinkedIn page. But the ones that I believe to be the most significant—professionally, not personally—are not on there. There are small, tiny, networked one-on-one interactions. There are individuals
crypto
The one where Harris stays zipped about crypto, the new decentralized AI platform seems too good to be true, Gamergate haunts us making everyone seem sus, the tech layoffs approach 150k, and Crowdstrike turns the $20bn economic loss into a big joke. What's the Harris-Walz platform for crypto?
Gen AI
Ending on an optimistic high note, JP talks Gen AI and higher education arts training. Listen as Jason Merai reminds us not to count this generation of students out to lead and change in this field and they discuss the best uses of the tool and the possibilities for the
Singular XQ Podcast
On Opium and Digital Media JP chats with everyone about some notes she has about the intersection of the history of opium and its negative impacts on society and digital technology which has both literally been an economic vehicle for delivering opiates and is it self a kind of "
Singular XQ Podcast
JP and Celi Arias talk about Grown Ass Business, Celi's creative and inspiring business strategy and growth consulting business. Celi shares her approach and JP offers her observations on why Celi's background in modern dance feeds directly into her skills in helping people building and optimizing
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Startups
JP interviews Founding Core Advisory Board member, Dr. Guissoo Nabavian. Dr. Nabavian is a psychologist with over 25 years in public mental health and wellness in NYC. JP and she talk about the transition from a for-profit consultancy to a non-profit social startup, and the importance of accessibility and education