Keeping up with accelerating change is hard, and a big part of that is staying in contact with everyone you need to stay in contact with co-workers, friends, and family. In a surprisingly indispensable way, AI is coming for you – just like your indispensable smartphone did less than two decades ago. For most of …
Keeping up with accelerating change is hard… so follow people who follow trends and share insights. Today for example, “Amplifying Cognition with Ross Dawson” provided pointers to both service robots (automation) and AI digital twins of people (amplification). See this image from Ross Dawson’s newsletter on Amplifying Cognition (if you want to see the actual …
My colleague (Salvatore Moccia) at EIT Digital invited me to give the opening lecture in their Generative AI online class. Marco Podien will speak right after I do with some great insights and examples of using ChatGPT. In my presentation (which is posted to slideshare), my goal is to inspire the participants to dive right …
This just in from Shaun West. Survey: Financial Challenges with [Advanced] Service Contracts === Request context We want your valuable insights into the financial dynamics of “advanced” service contracts. What exactly do we mean by “advanced” services? These encompass services involving substantial risk transfer, extended durations (over 18 months), or those utilising innovative revenue models …
In memory of Evert Gummesson (1936-2023) URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evert_Gummesson Hanken notice here URL: https://blogs.hanken.fi/cers/2023/04/06/the-passing-of-evert-gummesson/ ServSIG notice here URL: https://www.servsig.org/wordpress/2023/04/evert-gummesson-has-passed-away/ (1) As noted by Christian Gronross, Evert Gummesson was one of the pillars of the Nordic School of service research, and generously contributed a chapter to the Handbook of Service Science, entitled “The future of service is …
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Some important papers in the history of AI since 2017 2017 Vaswani et al (2017) Attention Is All You Need URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762v5 Why important – transformer architecture (working memory) 1. demo of neural net attention heads (like short-term or working memory (WM)) 2. simplified task – predicting the next item in the sequence from past …
“Upskilling” is the idea of a person gaining new skills for the purpose of giving and getting service better. Service is the application of resources (e.g., knowledge) for the benefit of another. Businesses help their employees upskill to improve their offerings to customers. Universities help students upskill to become better future citizens and employees. Even …
Survey question 1: Feel free to make a single prediction or multiple predictions about the best and most beneficial changes in digital life that are likely to take place by 2035. We are particularly interested in your thoughts about how developments might improve… Human-centered development of digital tools and systems – safely advancing human progress …
Two new ServCollab articles are worth checking out: (1) Healing the digital divide with digital inclusion: Enabling human capabilities. (Fisk et al, 2022). (2) Enabling a service thinking mindset: Practices for the global service ecosystem. (Alkire et al, 2022). Both papers got me thinking even more deeply about learning to invest systematically and wisely in …
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A lot of people are asking me for my opinion of ChatGPT these days. Here is what I am telling them: (1) What I think – I enjoy using it I am really enjoying using it – even though it is imperfect – it is a useful cognitive tool that makes a lot of mistakes, …