This issue of DigitalRosh CONNECT highlights the potential harm caused by AI systems and the measures humans can take to prevent it; SMBs as a new pathway for growth in the communications sector; a US Department of Justice guidebook on integrating security in software development; and a new course on startup success.
In addition, you will find the summary and recording of this week’s LIVE webinar with Tera Allas (McKinsey) on productivity and the role of digital in the economies of countries.
We are also introducing Dr. Aya Soffer, VP AI Tech at the IBM Research Organization, who is the third guest speaker of the DigitalRosh LIVE Giraffe Series.
Wishing you all an enlightening learning,
Prof. Yesha Sivan, Founder, and CEO
& the DigitalRosh team
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact and Our Responsibility
AI is becoming increasingly powerful, and its development is currently in the hands of a small group of technologists. Max Roser, founder and director of Our World in Data, has highlighted the need for public engagement and resources to ensure the development of AI goes well.
He outlines the risks of AI and encourages reading The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian, as well as Benjamin Hilton’s article ‘Preventing an AI-related catastrophe’ to learn more about the risks of AI systems and how we can reduce them.
Roser believes public resources and attention are needed to ensure AI is safe and beneficial for all.
(2) DigitalRosh > Corpus > Technologies > Cyber
DevSecOps Fundamentals Guidebook
The DevSecOps Fundamentals Guidebook is a resource released by the Department of Justice of the United States. It provides guidance on the principles and practices of DevSecOps, a software development approach that integrates security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
The guidebook covers topics such as the benefits of adopting a DevSecOps approach, automation and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), techniques for integrating security into the SDLC, and strategies for building a secure DevSecOps culture.
This guidebook is a valuable resource for organizations looking to adopt a more secure and efficient approach to software development
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Powering SMB Transformation: CSPs’ Path to New Growth
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are essential to the global economy, contributing 70% of global GDP and employment. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) have an opportunity to capitalize on this market, but they need to understand SMBs’ unique needs.
The Accenture report summarizes that small and medium-sized businesses are embracing digital transformation and are looking for local support and pre-bundled solutions. They also need access to cloud and security solutions and prefer to use a single vendor. CSPs must provide continuous post-sales support to meet SMB needs.
This report is part of DigitalRosh’s Accenture collection, available on our website.
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LIVE: Seeking Digital Heights with Tera Allas
Tera Allas, Director of Research and Economics at McKinsey, was this week’s guest of DigitalRosh LIVE, The Giraffe series, on 7-MAR-2023
Tera spoke about the role technology plays in productivity and the AGI’s potential to push productivity forward. Tera draws a line between prosperity and human capital and marks the investment in human capital as a key factor:
Productivity drives prosperity
Innovation drives productivity
Technology drives innovation
- Human capital drives technology
The second part was dedicated to the Israeli market in light of a recent report she had authored and published by McKinsey.
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Sam Altman – How To Succeed With a Startup
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur, investor, and programmer. He is the CEO of OpenAI, a research company that is focused on advancing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity.
Altman was instrumental in the company’s launch, having raised $1 billion from outside investors. He recently made headlines with the launch of ChatGPT, an OpenAI chatbot. Altman also co-founded two companies, Loopt and Worldcoin, and is the former president of Y Combinator.
Altman provides an online course from Y Combinator, on how to start a startup. It is free and accessible to anyone.
(6) DigitalRosh > Community > DigitalRosh LIVE – Seeking Digital Heights (23Q1)
Person of the Week: Dr. Aya Soffer, VP for AI Tech, IBM Research
Dr. Aya Soffer is Vice President of AI Tech in the IBM Research AI organization. In this role, Dr. Soffer directs the worldwide research strategy and works with IBM’s product groups and customers to drive Research innovation into the Market.
Dr. Soffer received her MS and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Before joining IBM in 1999, she was a research scientist at Goddard space flight center, where she worked on digital libraries for earth science data. Dr. Soffer has published over 40 papers in refereed journals and conferences and filed over 15 patents. She has additionally served on program committees, as track chair, and given keynotes at many leading conferences including a talk about Watson for Radiologists at the 2014 TEDMED conference.
Her focus is on creating world-class foundational AI technologies for businesses while advancing the state-of-art AI capabilities for understanding unstructured data including image, video, speech, text, and multi-modal data. This includes extracting knowledge from data, applying reasoning, and interacting with data via dialog and natural language queries.
In her 15 years at IBM, Dr. Soffer has led several strategic initiatives that have resulted in both breakthrough technology and IBM products and solutions. These include enterprise and social search technology, now part of IBM’s Social Enterprise and Watson products; Big data analytics solutions in the area of customer analytics and social listening; Multimedia management and analytics solutions in the area of healthcare, security, and retail.
Dr. Soffer’s team in HRL is currently working on cutting-edge technology in the areas of video analytics, natural language generation, argument mining, affective computing, social analytics, and more with applications in Healthcare, Retail, Defense, and Legal.
Aya Soffer is the 3rd speaker of DigitalRosh LIVE, The Giraffe series, on 14-MAR-2023
The following meetings will feature talks by digital technology leaders:
- 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.
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