» By reinstating Sam Altman, OpenAI has chosen financial success over its altruistic principles
» When Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985, the board believed he wasn’t ready to be CEO
» Google was quick to fire ethicist Timnit Gebru when she challenged its lucrative search advertising business
» Anyone can access generative AI, so simply using it is not a competitive advantage
» SEO has long sought to game search engine rankings; AI provides a new tool for doing so
» LLMs trained on AI output become increasingly detached from reality: “model collapse”
AI is:
» accelerating the design of novel proteins, enabling a new wave of vaccines and drugs
» predicting extreme weather events, helping to protect residents
» listening to the rainforest and sends real-time alerts for chainsaws, trucks, cars and signs of incursion
» monitoring the world’s oceans for illegal fishing activity
» ChatGPT’s inability to produce exact quotes from web pages is what makes us think it has learned something
» The biggest problem for AI chatbots and search engines is their propensity to generate bullsh*t
» When there is a financial incentive, people will industrialise technology to automate money-making activities
» Authoritative-sounding yet factually inaccurate content generated by AIs is harmful
» Product managers should be primarily concerned with what is best for users from an ethical point of view
» Amazon warehouses are gradually moving towards full robotic automation
» Greater automation creates new types of work, but not necessarily for people
» Smart contracts are already automating financial transactions, but can be susceptible to coding flaws
» Increased use of machine learning in insurance places greater burden on regulators to ensure fairness
» Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed
» DeepMind’s AlphaFold solves a complex protein folding problem in days rather than years
» Netflix and the BBFC automate age certifications for content with a staff-trained algorithm
» YouTube’s recommendation algorithm has the unintended consequence of creating echo chambers
» An algorithm widely used in US courts for predicting future criminality exhibits racial bias
» Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya explores the impact of biased facial recognition algorithms on human rights
What does it mean to be a good product manager in 2018? It’s not just about being agile and creating products users need – we need to be more human.
