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OpenAI’s recent intrigue impacts the future for your organization
Confirmed Achiever Volume I, Issue 3 – December 15, 2023
David Radin
December 15, 2023
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In today’s issue:
Becoming a Confirmed All*Star in your favorite tech tool
OpenAI intrigue impacts GenAI growth – and your organization too
The most important way to keep web-meeting participants engaged (video)
LinkedIn Tip: Spreading LinkedIn Events
Compelling Keynotes for your 2024 company or sales kickoff
News, Need-to-know, and Stats
Upcoming sessions to help you Become a Confirmed ALL*STAR
Microsoft Outlook – Hidden and Underutilized Ways to Get Full Potential
Email tips & secrets - January 3, 2024
Using Calendar and Contacts more productively - January 10, 2024
Web-meetings – Techniques & Tools to Make Them Better
Zoom Essentials, secrets, and new features - January 17, 2024
MS-Teams Essentials, secrets and new features - January 24, 2024
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OpenAI intrigue - impact on how Generative A.I. grows
The recent 5-day melodrama in which OpenAI’s CEO was fired, hired by Microsoft and re-hired by OpenAI shows how quickly the A.I. trajectory can change – and demonstrates the high stakes of being A.I. aware.
CEO, Sam Altman, disagreed with the company’s board about the balance between commerce from the technology and the need for safety; so he was ousted. The company’s top investor, Microsoft, got involved; and the end result was a coup – Altman reinstated and board members out.
It’s likely that similar critical conversations are happening in board rooms across the world because each company needs to resolve how they will deal with issues that have never before been so critical for corporate success – from safety to data privacy to human relations to commercial viability.
Just because a company is not an “A.I. company” doesn’t mean it doesn’t need to have these conversations. It may be even more important, because the issues are more likely to sneak up on boards and executives who are not living within the industry.
Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer, has published a detailed account and analysis that reveals mistakes at OpenAI at the leadership and board level as well as how A.I. and incentives can make things very difficult for lots of organizations.
As Ian Gott has reminded us, A.I. is not coming; it’s here – it’s just that it hasn’t arrived to all of us at the same time. And if we wait until it’s upon us to make corporate decisions, it’s probably too late.
The most important way to keep web-meeting participants engaged
In Professor Shannon Gregg’s keynote on Web Meetings, she shared the most important contributor to keeping participants engaged in web-meetings.
Registrants of “How to become a Confirmed Web-meetings ALL*STAR” at Essentials, Achiever, and All-star levels can watch her entire keynote on demand, as well as 2 deep dive sessions on better Zoom meeting and better MS-Teams meetings. Also available in Series Pass.
LinkedIn Tip: How to spread the word about a LinkedIn event that looks perfect for people you know
Occasionally you find a LinkedIn event that you think would be perfect for your colleagues or members of your team. This Confirmed Achiever article gives you tips on how to better share a LinkedIn Event with people who would benefit from attending.
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News, Need-to-know, and Stats
ICYMI: White House Issue Executive Order on A.I.
Read the official Fact Sheet from the White House here without any filter
New Google Chrome shows memory usage – hover over a Chrome tab to reveal the full title of the webpage opened on that tab plus how much of your computer’s memory is sucked up by that tab. In our Google Chrome track, we’ll help you use this info to help you be more productive; and we’ll share additional tips to use this tool which may be the tool on your computer that you use the most every day.
Tesla launched its own car insurance. These drivers say it's a lemon. (Reuters Special Report)
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David