Over 100 million people around the world use ChatGPT. And it gets a lot of attention. We dealt with understanding the context, the potential, the implications, and the practice of using it (we recommend our course DLC518: Real World AGI for Business). This week we bring the technical side, in a simple explanation intended for non-programmers.
Additionally, this week you will find news about
- Smart cities for urban decision-makers, local stakeholders, and entrepreneurs (Economist)
- The five core talent factors that are crucial for digital transformation (McKinsey)
- Discussion at the World Economic Forum about the Mreverse influence on our lives
We introduce Mr. Imad Telhami, a visionary industrialist and entrepreneur who is the first guest speaker at the DigitalRosh LIVE webinar of the Giraffe series (starting 28-Feb.)
Lastly, we invite PRO members to join the DigitalRosh Professional Tour (In Isreal) on 15-Mar-2023 at the Lubinski Group headquarters. We will meet Lubinski’s top management and discuss Digital, innovation, and the AGI challenge: a unique opportunity for peer learning, networking, and community fun. The tour is open for PRO members only – if you are not a PRO member, you are invited to sign up.
Wishing you all an enlightening learning,
Prof. Yesha Sivan, Founder, and CEO
& DigitalRosh team
(1) DigitalRosh > Corpus > Industries > Cities
Digital Cities Index: A global Benchmark of Urban Technology (Economist Impact)
Over the last decade, cities across the world have built digital infrastructure and embedded digital technologies into urban services. The Digital Cities Index (DCI) 2022 is an inaugural ranking of 30 global cities across four thematic pillars: connectivity, services, culture, and sustainability – a tool for urban decision-makers, local stakeholders, and entrepreneurs.
Artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and 5G connectivity offer municipal authorities powerful tools to make cities smarter, safer, cleaner, and more inclusive.
Yet the digital transformation of cities is a complex, long-term process with many challenges and pitfalls, including inappropriate technology, vendor “lock-in”, cost, and even social backlash and opposition.
To help urban decision-makers, local stakeholders, and entrepreneurs make the best use of digital technology and understand the challenges and opportunities the inaugural Digital Cities Index (DCI) 2022 ranks 30 global cities across four thematic pillars:
- Connectivity
- Services
- Culture
- Sustainability
Combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, and including a survey of 3,000 residents spread across all cities in the DCI, the results show how cities are performing in terms of both quantitative metrics like internet speed and qualitative factors such as the presence of strategies, policies, and plans for technologies like 5G and AI.
(2) DigitalRosh > Corpus > Cross Industry > Learning
The Five Talent Factors That Matter Most (McKinsey)
According to Mckinsey, digital transformations are a significant challenge for companies, and leaders often struggle to sustain improvements.
The success of these transformations depends on both talent and technology. Mckinsey has recently conducted research on more than 30 large-scale digital transformations to understand the talent and technology decisions that drive success.
Mckinsey concluded that five core talent factors are crucial for advanced analytics transformations:
- Prioritizing the hiring of senior digital leaders;
- Rethinking the value proposition for digital talent;
- Hiring internally with a high bar on technical skills;
- Building a learning and development program for digital talent; and
- Evaluating trade-offs between immediate results and long-term capability building.
(3) DigitalRosh > Corpus > Techbologies > AI
How ChatGPT Works Technically For Beginners
A simple explanation of the technical side of ChatGPT was made by a YouTuber named Kurdiez Space. He has been using ChatGPT for 2 months and as a fascinated software programmer he decided to make a guide on how ChatGPT works.
The video explains the following subjects:
- What is ChatGPT and why has it shocked the world?
- How did the AI scientists crack it?
- How it’s connected to our brain structure?
- How ChatGPT Works?
- What is a Neural network?
- Unsupervised learning & supervised learning
- The current state of ChatGPT
- ChatGPT vs Humans comparison
(4) DigitalRosh > Corpus > Technologies > Metaverse
How Will the Metaverse Change Our Lives? (World Economic Forum)
How will the Metaverse change our lives? To answer this question Stanford University researcher Jeremy Bailenson has talked with the World Economic Forum, explaining the real potential of the metaverse.
Jeremy Bailenson is a professor of communication at Stanford University and founding director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, which has been researching the metaverse and virtual reality for 20 years.
Jeremy Bailenson helps us understand fast-evolving technology. He says the metaverse is still a work in progress whose development will be “driven by use cases that make sense.”
To find out more about how the metaverse can be made safe, accessible, and economically viable, you can watch the Davos 2023 panel session, featuring:
- Meta CPO Chris Cox,
- Rwanda’s ICT Minister, Paula Ingabire,
- HP chief Enrique Lores
- Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, where the term ‘metaverse’ was coined.
(5) DigitalRosh > Community
DigitalRosh Professional Tour – Digital and Innovation in Lubinski Group (Israel)
DigitalRosh professional tours are one of the DigitalRosh activities for PRO members. The first tour of 2023 will take place on 15-Mar-2023 at the Lubinski Group, one of the leading car trading companies in Israel.
On this special day, we will meet the top management team of Lubinski Group to discuss the digital challenges they face, the innovation they promote and practice, and the influence of AGI on their organization.
We will meet
- Dani Shavit, CEO
- Naama Biton, CMO
- Gadi Gilon, CDO
- Idit Chen, CIO
As always, we will have time to speak with each other, have forum discussions, and have lunch.
The Professional Tour is open for DigitalRosh PRO members only.
It is not too late – If you are not a PRO member you can sign up and join a unique group of executives, enjoy the PRO services, and get FREE invitations to all our events.
(6) DigitalRosh > Community > DigitalRosh LIVE
Person of the Week: Imad Telhami
Imad Telhami is a visionary industrialist and entrepreneur for whom significant social action is an integral part of every endeavor, aspiring to transform Israeli society through its business sector. Imad Telhami has substantial management experience and a long and successful history in global management.
Imad is a remarkable businessman who harnessed the managerial experience and unique skills he gained at Delta Galil to establish Babcom Centers, a highly successful technology company providing superior professional services to leading corporations.
Babcom Centers is a multicultural company whose managers, as well as employees, Arabs and Jews, are committed to providing their customers with first-rate service. In line with Telhami’s vision, the company has Arab and Jewish stakeholders and was co-founded with the late distinguished Israeli industrialist, Dov Lautman.
Babcom makes a real contribution to society through the employment of thousands, mostly women, with a commitment to multiculturalism and empowerment of young men and women via their integration into the local and global economies.
In 2014 Telhami founded Takwin Labs, an internet incubator for Arab entrepreneurs in Haifa, together with Chemi Peres and Erel Margalit. The incubator was founded with the intention to enable more Arabs to successfully integrate into the Start-up Nation in Israel, realize their potential, and create successful high-tech companies.
Telhami has served in positions on several councils and boards of directors and has participated in a number of projects with partners who share his commitment, including The Lautman Fund, and Appleseeds Academy, members of the Board and Executive Committee of the University of Haifa.
He is a member of the Board of Kav Mashve (a non-profit organization that through academic work seeks equality between Arabs and Jews), and a member of the Advisory Committee for Economic Development in the Arab, Druze, and Circassian sector, in the Prime Minister’s Office
Imad Talhami and Offer Shapira, Babcom CEO, are the first speakers of DigitalRosh LIVE – the Giraffe series, starting on 28-FEB-2023
Imad and Offer will speak about Babcom and its challenges in view of AGI, and how digital technology can empower and advance the Arab community in Israel as well as other peripheral communities.
The 3 other meetings will feature talks by more digital technology leaders:
- Tera Allas, Director of Research, and Economics at McKinsey
- Aya Soffer, Director of IBM Research Israel
- Yariv Hasar, Chief Digital Officer and Tech General Manager at Pagaya
DigitalRosh LIVE, hosted by Jacob Eilon, is broadcast live on Tuesdays starting at 18:00. An open discussion is held following each lecture.
DigitalRosh Pro and Plus members can register for the LIVE events free of charge, as part of their membership. Interested participants, who are not DigitalRosh members can register for the whole series (ILS164) or each event separately (ILS64 /webinar). Recordings of the events will be available to DigitalRosh members.
If you are not a member yet – join DigitalRosh PLUS for a small monthly fee and get access to the LIVE events as part of your membership.
As a service for our readers: Register, free, for the Cyber Risks and Insurance in Digital Health event on 03-March-2023.
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