In this week’s DigitalRosh CONNECT you will find:
- Review: Machine Learning on AWS (Amazon)
- Analysis: Superhero or Villain – Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover (DigitalRosh)
- Digital Health: Implementing 3D-Printing Techniques to Expand the Complexity and Abilities of Multi-Organ-on-a-Chip Devices (Hebrew University)
- LIVE: Weaving Digital Learning With Prof. David Perkins (DigitalRosh)
- Corpus: The World of AI in DigitalRosh – Our Top 5 Items on AI (DigitalRosh)
- Person of the Week: Merav Ash, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Wishing you an enlightening learning,
Prof. Yesha Sivan, Founder, and CEO
& DigitalRosh team
(1) DigitalRosh > Corpus > Technologies > AI
Review: Machine Learning on AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Amazon uses AI primarily for Alexa but also sells its Machine Learning (ML) and AI capacities on AWS (Amazon Web Services) to be implemented in other businesses.
More than one hundred thousand customers, from the largest enterprises to the hottest startups, use Amazon Machine Learning.
It’s interesting to look at AWS list of customers, including companies such as United Airlines or Astra Zeneca, Disney or Discovery channel. Customers choose AWS machine learning to do things like improving the quality of healthcare, navigating the world’s oceans, analyzing the game of football, and optimizing transportation logistics.
AWS offers a broad and deep set of machine learning services and supporting cloud infrastructure, putting machine learning in the hands of every developer, data scientist and expert practitioner leveraging Amazon’s internal experience with AI and machine learning.
Merav Ash, Head of AWS Machine Learning Business Development EMEA, will be a keynote speaker at DigitalRosh LIVE Weaving Digital series on November 22, 2022.
(2) DigitalRosh > Corpus > Industries > Big Tech
Analysis: Superhero or Villain – Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
Two weeks after Elon Musk entered the Twitter HQ with a sink in his hands, his takeover of Twitter seems like a large-scale fiasco. Advertising revenues shrank, half of Twitter’s employees were laid off, and the worth of Musk’s other assets – including Tesla – keeps plummeting.
Elon Musk’s track record over the years made him an undisputed digital leader and one of the richest men alive. Nevertheless, thus far, the story of his Twitter takeover may look more and more like a classic case of hubris. Two weeks after the acquisition of Twitter by Musk, the platform’s advertising revenue has plummeted and its income prospects, which weren’t great from the beginning, disappeared.
To finance the costly acquisition, Musk had to sell $4 billion of Tesla stock, while using additional $62.5 billion as securities for a personal loan. As a result, Tesla’s stock price began to dive since the acquisition announcement, and on November 9, 2022, reached a two-year record low of $177.59 per share – 50% of its worth at the beginning of 2022. Moreover, due to the recent mass-scale layoffs, Musk had to pull dozens of software developers from Tesla to Twitter for an undisclosed period of time.
How did it all come to this, and what early lessons can be learned from the apparent failure of one of the biggest digital leaders of our time?
(3) DigitalRosh > Corpus > Industries > Medicine > Innovation Digital Health: Implementing 3D-Printing Techniques to Expand the Complexity and Abilities of Multi-Organ-on-a-Chip Devices (Hebrew University)
The article presents 3D-print-based fabrication methods for a generic multi-organ-on-a-chip device. The goal is to create a microfluidic device (a “chip”) that would mimic the physiological functions of a human organ – an exciting emerging technology, using advanced 3D printing.
The understanding that systemic context and tissue crosstalk are essential keys for bridging the gap between in vitro models and in vivo conditions led to a growing effort in the last decade to develop advanced multi-organ-on-a-chip devices.
For example, a research group from the Hebrew University, led by Prof. Ofra Benny, has developed a method that enables performing a variety of possible treatments simultaneously on a tiny tissue of a cancerous tumor sampled from a patient. In this way, they can quickly reach insights about the most effective treatment for the patient and implement it immediately.
The concept of an “organ on a chip” opens directions in medical research and diagnostics. Using microfluidic and other technologies, the group investigates how the physical and mechanical parameters of nanoparticles affect interactions with cells and tissues. Advanced 3D tissue-like patient-derived cultures and “tumor-on-a-chip” technology are developed to study the activity and toxicity of anti-cancer drugs and nano-therapies for personalized medicine.
(4) DigitalRosh > Community > DigitalRosh LIVE – Weaving Digital (22Q4) Course Directory
LIVE: Weaving Digital Learning With Prof. David Perkins
On November 15, 2022, DigitalRosh held the first in its 2022 Q4 DigitalRosh LIVE Weaving Digital series, hosting Prof. David Perkins from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Project Zero.
DigitalRosh PRO members can access a complete recording of the LIVE event: the webinar by Prof. Perkins and the subsequent discussion.
(5) DigitalRosh > Corpus > Technologies > AI
Corpus: The World of AI in DigitalRosh – Our Top 5 Items on Artificial Intelligence
The DigitalRosh CORPUS contains a plethora of articles and learning materials dedicated to the various facets of digital technology, strategy, culture, and more. We have dedicated numerous items to the developing field of Artificial Intelligence – here are the top 5 items we think you should read:
1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – Explained! If you can’t understand the difference between the two or want to learn more, this 27-page explanatory document produced at the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University is the right place for you to start.
2. What if you could write a description of a painting you would like to see, and have it realized in a matter of seconds? DALL-E 2 is one of many generative AI models enabling every user to create original images and illustrations from a text string. Together with Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and others, it creates a world where anyone could be an artist – but what does it mean for the future of art?
3. Generative AI models can also generate deep-fakes, posing an enormous threat to cybersecurity, possibly enabling extortion and fraud, and the shift of public opinion by means of misrepresentation. A study carried out by Liran Antebi at the Israel Institute for National Security Studies reviews and presents deep-fake technology, together with policy recommendations.
4. On the positive side – AI can really help humanity by greatly improving medical diagnostics, and indeed, it is thriving in various medical fields. Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan developed a lightweight deep learning model for automatic segmentation and analysis of eye images, even those taken by a mobile phone, to improve the diagnosis of eye diseases.
5 Lastly, if you thought that your next car would be self-driving, think again! An article delving into the reasons for Argo AI collapse on the same day Mobileye went public explains the reasons causing the automotive industry to advance to autonomous driving much slower than expected.
(6) DigitalRosh > Community > Members Directory
Person of the Week: Merav Ash (Amazon Web Services)
Merav Ash is EMEA Head of Machine Learning Business Development at Amazon Web Services. Her team works with AI startups on some of the most advanced NLP, CV research and products.
Founder of the AIm High program for female founders in AI, aiming to empower female-founded startups with AI/ML technologies in order to differentiate their products and add technical depth. This is a 12-week accelerator program for startups to gain confidence around product market fit, technical know-how, as well as fundraising and market expansion.
Ex. Microsoft, where she has held numerous sales management positions helping enterprise companies in their digital transformation leveraging Microsoft hybrid cloud platform, Focuses on the world of big data, advanced analytics, Machine learning, IoT, and AI.
Ex. co-founder of RedLight, a startup that uses traffic data to predict high-risk road coordinates and alert drivers in real time
Merav Ash will be a guest at DigitalRosh LIVE Weaving Digital series on November 15, 2022.
(Registration is open to DigitalRosh Pro members only)
To view these and other job postings, click on the image or visit – DigitalRosh > Corpus > Career > Job Board
