September 2013 A Summary of: “The AI Revolution is On” Steven Levy is a senior writer for Wired and author of many books‚ including In the Plex: How Google Thinks‚ Works and Shapes Our Lives (Behrens and Rosen 209). In his essay “The AI Revolution is On” published in Wired in December of 2010 Levy distinguishes between two visions of artificial intelligence: the kind of AI currently in place and the machines that will think First‚ Levy gives a visual picture of how robots organize a warehouse
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I found that Steven Levy makes some very bold claims. I will address those in next week’s Journal. This week‚ he mentions a long list of people and computers that ends up reading like a computing industry “Hall of Fame.” Many of these have contributed greatly to the way our computers work‚ how small and how powerful they have become. Below‚ I have some impressions as I looked into the biography of each. Levy’s descriptions are colorful‚ but not very enlightening‚ as regards their roles in computer
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reading Levy’s article she discusses raunch culture and how women feel empowered by it. Women feel like being sexy or sexually stimulating men makes them feel more in control. Levy gives a different outlook on the women that partake in this lifestyle. Levy feels that women are close-minded when discussing sexual things. Levy gives an inside look on certain women that partake in this industry by showing that its way more than just “sex”. Ruanch culture makes women look worthless and gives off the
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issues including financial crisis‚ poor quality of patient care‚ and low staff morale. This grim outlook required a strong transformational leader. Levy displayed all the characteristics of a powerful and effective leader by embracing intellectual stimulation‚ individual consideration‚ and charisma which enabled him to lead them through the crisis. Levy was able to inspire the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center staff by clearly presenting the hospitals challenges and seeking out different viewpoints
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How would you describe the situation Levy inherited at the BIDMC? What challenges did he face? Why did previous turnaround efforts fail? (4 points) Two unique corporate cultures‚ Beth Israel Hospital and Deaconess Hospital merged in 1996 to become Beth Israel Deaconess (BID). To compete with Partners‚ BID and a few other hospitals combined forces and formed Care Group Systems (CGS). Lacking leadership commitment‚ BID was in chaos and consistently posted operating losses in millions of dollars
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Reaction on Reaction Paper The first thing that came to my mind when I have heard about Reaction paper is “What exactly is it?” and before I get an understanding of that‚ I resisted that change. But later‚ when I have studied about it and understood its purpose‚ I have started thinking “Why people avoid change at the first look without an analysis?” The general human tendency is to live in a comfortable zone in which he has lived for quite some time. He draws a circle‚ thinks that circle is his
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The topic I choose to react on is the concept of CSR. The topic explains what exactly Corporate Social Responsibility is. It explains that in applying Corporate Social Responsibility it focuses the importance of keeping or looking out for the best interests not just for the shareholders but the whole society as well. The company’s business operations must take in consideration of the interests of the stakeholders. The report also tackles why the need for the CSR arises‚ its impact and benefits to
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Sovanna Duong Charles Levy Sociology 1 TuTh 1-2:25 PM 11/20/2012 Reaction Paper 3 Everyday we all go through some kind of interaction with one another whether it’s at school‚ work‚ social networking sites‚ our phones‚ or even at the store. Social interaction is the process by which people act and react in relations to others. Through these interactions we go through different roles. The role is behavior expected of someone who holes a particular status. Each person has more than one role and
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Nicholas Carr‚ based on his essay‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” would disagree with Steven Pinker’s “Mind Over Mass Media.” Pinker believes that technology is the only thing that keeps us smart in a society level by making it easier to be informed about everything‚ while Carr believes that it affects our critical thinking ability because having access to so much information makes us skim through the reading‚ so even though we are reading many things‚ it does not mean we are actually holding on to
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The Coconut Levy Fund Abstract Summary Table of Contents Introduction Cocos Nucifera‚ better known as the coconut‚ has been with the Filipinos since the earliest forebears first inhabited the archipelago. When the first western adventures stumbled into the Philippine shores‚ their scribes recorded encounters with brown-skinned natives who derived their basic needs in life from a single source they called the “Tree of Life”. This remained true for the Filipinos until the imposition
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