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Love Faith Festival Set to Ignite Harare with Joy and Inspiration

The vibrant city of Harare is gearing up for an extraordinary celebration of love, faith, and community as the inaugural Love Faith Festival approaches. Scheduled for September 29, 2024, this outdoor Christian festival promises a day filled with uplifting performances, heartfelt poetry, and joyous comedy, all set against the picturesque backdrop of the Farm at Art.     The festival, which is the…

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My favorite books in Feb-2023 - #23 Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it – November 23, 2018 by Martin Ford (Author) Bestselling author Martin Ford talks to a hall-of-fame list of the world's top AI experts, delving into the future of AI, its impact on society and the issues we should be genuinely concerned about as the field advances. This is the hardcover edition of the book. Key Features: Interviews with AI leaders and practitioners A snapshot of the current state of AI, where it is headed and how it will impact society Voices from across AI and the scientific community Book Description: How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Architects of Intelligence contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where New York Times bestselling author, Martin Ford, uncovers the truth behind these questions from some of the brightest minds in the Artificial Intelligence community. Martin has wide-ranging conversations with twenty-three of the world's foremost researchers and entrepreneurs working in AI and robotics: Demis Hassabis (DeepMind), Ray Kurzweil (Google), Geoffrey Hinton (Univ. of Toronto and Google), Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics), Yann LeCun (Facebook) , Fei-Fei Li (Stanford and Google), Yoshua Bengio (Univ. of Montreal), Andrew Ng (AI Fund), Daphne Koller (Stanford), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), Nick Bostrom (Univ. of Oxford), Barbara Grosz (Harvard), David Ferrucci (Elemental Cognition), James Manyika (McKinsey), Judea Pearl (UCLA), Josh Tenenbaum (MIT), Rana el Kaliouby (Affectiva), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jeff Dean (Google), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT), Oren Etzioni (Allen Institute for AI), Gary Marcus (NYU), and Bryan Johnson (Kernel). Martin Ford is a prominent futurist, and author of Financial Times Business Book of the Year, Rise of the Robots. He speaks at conferences and companies around the world on what AI and automation might mean for the future. This is the hardcover edition of the book. What You Will Learn: The state of modern AI How AI will evolve and the breakthroughs we can expect Insights into the minds of AI founders and leaders How and when we will achieve human-level AI The impact and risks associated with AI and its impact on society and the economy Who this book is for: Anybody with an interest in artificial intelligence and the role it will play in the future of human life and work will find this a fascinating read. The discussions here are not only of interest to scientists and technologists, but to the wider reading public. About the Author Martin Ford is a futurist and the author of two books: The New York Times Bestselling Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (winner of the 2015 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and translated into more than 20 languages) and The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future, as well as the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm. His TED Talk on the impact of AI and robotics on the economy and society, given on the main stage at the 2017 TED Conference, has been viewed more than 2 million times. Martin is also the consulting artificial intelligence expert for the new "Rise of the Robots Index" from Societe Generale, underlying the Lyxor Robotics & AI ETF, which is focused specifically on investing in companies that will be significant participants in the AI and robotics revolution. He holds a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a graduate business degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written about future technology and its implications for publications including The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, and The Financial Times. He has also appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including NPR, CNBC, CNN, MSNBC and PBS. Martin is a frequent keynote speaker on the subject of accelerating progress in robotics and artificial intelligence-and what these advances mean for the economy, job market and society of the future. Martin continues to focus on entrepreneurship and is actively engaged as a board member and investor at Genesis Systems, a startup company that has developed a revolutionary atmospheric water generation (AWG) technology. Genesis will soon deploy automated, self-powered systems that will generate water directly from the air at industrial scale in the world's most arid regions.

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Tech Leaders Draw Up Post-Pandemic Go Back To Work Environment

Services will be relying on business technology to smooth out the procedure of getting workers back to the work environment in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by Forrester Research study.

Technology leaders say security will be a leading priority.

The information-technology research company’s report sets out an early-stage plan for IT executives preparing to resume corporate workplaces– a process that will differ by market, however for most organisations will involve several phases.

Chief details officers and their teams will likely remain in the very first wave of workers returning to the task website, said Andrew Hewitt, a Forrester expert serving infrastructure and operations experts.

He said their initial job will be to establish a technique for keeping worker tech tools– including PCs, mobile devices, screens, keyboards and mice– germ-free without damaging them.

” IT teams will require to have a staging area that’s beyond the front door of the workplace where staff members can bring their home technology in and sterilize it,” Mr. Hewitt said.

A 2nd top priority will be to convert remote-work abilities– lots of established on the fly as the coronavirus pandemic spread– into long-term features of the workplace, the report stated.

The relocation will make it possible for companies to keep social distancing by limiting the number of on-site employees at any given time, according to Forrester researchers.

President Trump described new federal standards on Thursday to resume the nation, saying guvs should take a “phased and intentional method” to reboot their state economies. Image: William Volcov/Zuma Press.

For IT departments, that indicates improving network abilities and remote-access login and security features for business systems and business applications, Mr. Hewitt stated.

Bob Worrall, chief information officer of networking-products company Juniper Networks Inc., said even as some staff members return to physical offices, others who stay at home will need expanded access to corporate networks.

Numerous business relied on short-term IT fixes to keep running during the crisis, like establishing remote meetings on Zoom, Google Hangouts or other platforms. Mr. Worrall stated more robust options will be required as complicated organisation processes are shifted online over the long term– consisting of accounting, sales and human resources applications.

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Doing that requires IT teams to closely keep an eye on network efficiency and use patterns of broadened remote-work tools to anticipate any bottlenecks down the road, Mr. Worrall stated. To keep track of corporate networks, lots of business will require to release some type of load-balancing technology to spread out surges in traffic across several servers, he included.

When any of this will happen remains unclear. The White Home has deferred to the states the choice on when to reopen organisations.

Roughly a quarter of Fortune 200 business stated they are considering reopening offices in May with some form of on-site Covid-19 testing, according to a survey this month by the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable, a benefits-focused industry group.

Since Wednesday, more than four million tests have been performed in the U.S. and there are approximately 825,000 verified cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The use of expert system and automation will also play a substantial role in allowing contact-tracing of infected workers, said James Manyika, chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute, a research study arm of speaking with firm McKinsey and Co.

” The measures that will require to be in place to allow business to reopen and individuals to return to work will even more accelerate the digitization we have actually seen take place so quickly during the pandemic,” Mr. Manyika said.

Aamir Paul, U.S. country president of global commercial company Schneider Electric SE, said a brand-new focus on staff member security will also include using IT capabilities to physical structures, such as wise ventilation systems to provide much better environmental conditions.

” Safeguarding employees and allowing efficiency will require to take center stage,” Mr. Paul said. “We’ll see unprecedented levels of capital and technology costs committed to these areas over the next 2 to 3 years.”

Bob Worrall, CIO, Juniper Networks.

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Kirsten Wolberg, primary technology and operations officer at electronic-signature technology maker.

DocuSign Inc.,

DocuSign has more than 2,000 staff members.

” It’s clear that moving to a 100%remote labor force was a lot simpler than it will be to have our staff members return to the office,” Ms. Wolberg said, pointing out health and safety concerns for its workers.

She said the business will “take its time and follow the assistance of health companies” and other local public-sector leaders in choosing when to resume its workplaces.

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Martin Ford Publishes ARCHITECTS OF INTELLIGENCE

Today, Martin Ford is a prominent futurist, and author of Financial Times Business Book of the Year, Rise of the Robots. publishes his newest book, Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI From the People Building It. 

The book contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where Martin uncovers the truth behind important questions from some of the brightest minds in the Artificial Intelligence community.

Martin has wide-ranging conversations with twenty-three of the world’s foremost researchers and entrepreneurs working in AI and robotics: Demis Hassabis (DeepMind), Ray Kurzweil (Google), Geoffrey Hinton (Univ. of Toronto and Google), Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics), Yann LeCun (FaceBook) , Fei-Fei Li (Stanford and Google), Yoshua Bengio (Univ. of Montreal), Andrew Ng (AI Fund), Daphne Koller (Stanford), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), Nick Bostrom (Univ. of Oxford), Barbara Grosz (Harvard), David Ferrucci (Elemental Cognition), James Manyika (McKinsey), Judea Pearl (UCLA), Josh Tenenbaum (MIT), Rana el Kaliouby (Affectiva), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jeff Dean (Google), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT), Oren Etzioni (Allen Institute for AI), Gary Marcus (NYU), and Bryan Johnson (Kernel).

Learn more at book.mfordfuture.com. 

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How Big is the Gig Economy?

“For the first time since the rise of the term ‘gig economy,’ the US federal government will release data showing how many workers rely on non-traditional work arrangements like temp work, freelancing, and on-call work. The June 7 disclosure has been much anticipated. According to research conducted in the past decade, anywhere from between 0.1% of U.S. employment to 34% of the workforce can be categorized as part of the gig economy—a variance that can largely be explained by inconsistent definitions of the buzzphrase.”

“The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will ... look at the overall number of contingent workers (who don’t expect their jobs to be permanent) and workers in alternate arrangements, which includes temp workers, contract workers, and on-call workers in addition to independent contractors. It will only count workers in these arrangements at their main job, and only if they have worked at that job in the last week.”

“This is the same method the US government used to regularly conduct surveys about alternative and contingent work until 2005, when the survey was defunded, and will provide another view of the gig economy’s size and influence (though the bureau states explicitly on its website that it has no definition of which workers in its survey should be categorized as part of the ‘gig economy’). According to a 2016 McKinsey survey, more than half of workers taking freelance gigs in the US and EU do so to earn supplemental rather than primary income. These workers would not be counted in the BLS numbers.”

Quartz at Work, June 4, 2018: “We're about to find out how big the gig economy actually is,” by Sarah Kessler

Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 7, 2018: “Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements” (24 pages, PDF)

Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 1, 2018: “Frequently asked questions about data on contingent and alternative employment arrangements”

Economic Policy Institute, May 15, 2018: “Uber and the labor market,” by Lawrence Mishel (29 pages, PDF)

Nation 1099, January 29, 2018: “Ultimate Guide to Gig Economy Data: A Summary of Every Freelance Survey We Can Find,” by Robert McGuire

McKinsey Global Institute, October, 2016: “Independent work: Choice, necessity, and the gig economy,” by James Manyika, Susan Lund, Jacques Bughin, Kelsey Robinson, Jan Mischke, and Deepa Mahajan (Full report: 148 pages, PDF)

Bureau of Labor Statistics, May, 2016: “Working in a gig economy,” by Elka Torpey and Andrew Hogan

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UNDER THE RADAR: THE THE – We Can’t Stop What’s Coming – from the film The Inertia Variations.

British new wave greats The The are releasing their first new single in 15 years on Record Store Day. “We Can’t Stop What’s Coming,” which will be limited to 2000 copies, is a tribute to frontman Matt Johnson’s late brother Andrew, aka Andy Dog, who designed many of the band’s record sleeves and who passed away last year. The song features Johnny Marr on guitar and former The The members Zeke Manyika and James Eller on percussion and bass, and Johnson debuted it after an interview on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6 Music show.

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Still alive an well. Nhepfenyuro is a zimbabwean #superhero I created with my cousin Andrew Manyika when I was in highschool. What started as a joke helped start Sigma @SDSzim #webcomic #eugeneramirezArt @enigmacomix #comicbooks #webcomics

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Also, I miss Slam For Your Life.

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Preparing for an Automated Future

“Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand in hand."

“Recent developments in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning have put us on the cusp of a new automation age. Robots and computers can not only perform a range of routine physical work activities better and more cheaply than humans, but they are also increasingly capable of accomplishing activities that include cognitive capabilities once considered too difficult to automate successfully, such as making tacit judgments, sensing emotion, or even driving. Automation will change the daily work activities of everyone, from miners and landscapers to commercial bankers, fashion designers, welders, and CEOs. But how quickly will these automation technologies become a reality in the workplace? And what will their impact be on employment and productivity in the global economy?”

McKinsey & Company, January 2017: “Harnessing automation for a future that works,” by James Manyika, Michael Chui, Mehdi Miremadi, Jacques Bughin, Katy George, Paul Willmott, and Martin Dewhurst (Executive Summary - 28 pages, PDF,  Full Report - 148 pages, PDF, Appendix)

Training Students to Outpace Automation

“As more jobs become automated, companies are looking for employees who can essentially manage the machines doing the work. Where an employee used to be responsible for, say, feeding a panel onto a conveyor belt, now that employee is increasingly expected to work with coworkers to solve any problems that arise when the machine doing the job malfunctions. That requires good communication, critical-thinking, and time-management skills, and schools that used to focus strictly on technical instruction like welding now find themselves adapting curriculum to include more of these so-called ‘soft skills.’”

“The result, proponents hope, is a set of adaptable graduates with the ability to succeed across a range of industries—meaning a set of graduates who won’t be left without options when the next recession hits. That’s especially crucial here, in an area still struggling to rebound from the decline of the auto industry, and where educational attainment and salaries are lower, on average, than in the rest of the country."

“At community colleges like Henry Ford, “learning to learn in the classroom” means more emphasis on critical thinking and collaboration, and on demystifying the technology that powers today’s manufacturing systems. Schools today are more willing to involve employers in conversations about what skills should and shouldn’t be taught from the outset, [Gary Saganski, the head of academic relations at Henry Ford] said, and many employers are willing to engage because they’re more likely to get well-rounded workers who won’t need to be retrained in the future.”

The Atlantic, March 10, 2017: “Training Students to Outpace Automation,” by Emily Deruy

A Historical Perspective

“Our modern fear that robots will steal all the jobs fits a classic script. Nearly 500 years ago, Queen Elizabeth I cited the same fear when she denied an English inventor named William Lee a patent for an automated knitting contraption. ‘I have too much regard for the poor women and unprotected young maidens who obtain their daily bread by knitting to forward an invention which, by depriving them of employment, would reduce them to starvation,’ she told Lee, according to one account of the incident. The lack of patent didn’t ultimately stop factories from adopting the machine.”

Quartz, March 9, 2017: “The optimist’s guide to the robot apocalypse,” by Sarah Kessler

Quartz, March 15, 2017: “Robots won’t take your job—they’ll help make room for meaningful work instead,” by TL Andrews

“Only one of the 270 detailed occupations listed in the 1950 US Census has since been eliminated by automation, according to a working paper by Harvard economist James Bessen. The one exception: elevator operator. While the government has stopped including other occupations on the 1950 list in the Census due to factors like lack of demand (boardinghouse keepers) and technological obsolescence (telegraph operators), only elevator operators owe their occupation’s demise mostly to automation, Bessen found.”

Quartz, March 15, 2017: “Over the last 60 years, automation has totally eliminated just one US occupation,” by Sarah Kessler

SSRN, October 3, 2016: “How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, Jobs, and Skills,” by James E. Bessen

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