Valuable information tends to level the playing field when you are in negotiations. Recently, I was negotiating a contract. There was one significant item in the proposed contract that didn’t seem reasonable to me. This item was going to add significantly to my costs. So, I typed out my scenario in Perplexity AI and moments later I had a detailed ...
According to the Dallas Express, a lawsuit against the software company Workday may establish significant precedent regarding the use of AI for hiring practices. Workday’s AI hiring software called, Hired Score, is reportedly being used by over 11,000 companies and has processed over 1 billion job applications. In his lawsuit, Plaintiff Derek Mobley claims that Workday’s AI software screened out ...
Artificial Intelligence is fraught with ethical dilemmas, especially for those with a Biblical worldview. Without Christian voices speaking into those ethical concerns, we’re likely to regret the direction Silicon Valley drives us toward. According to Christianity Today, Bryden Eastman, an applied mathematician, had significant ethical concerns about his part of launching ChatGPT. He wasn’t sure how best to address his ...
Gallup and Bentley University conducted a poll on Artificial Intelligence that revealed that 75% of respondents believe that AI will reduce the number of jobs in the United States over the next ten years. These researchers also discovered that worry about the negative effects of AI was especially high among adults with less than a bachelor’s degree and over 45. ...
With remote work so prevalent, some companies now use electronic monitoring to determine how much time employees spend working. One field study, discussed in Harvard Business Review, concludes that the use of electronic monitoring is backfiring. The researchers learned that when electronic monitoring was used, workers tended to put less effort into their work. They also determined that productivity ...
In the 1990s, I was building a new consulting business during the growing Dot-com bubble. I found a company that seemed knowledgeable about the internet and hired them to develop our website. One question I should have asked was, “What happens to my website if your company goes out of business?” When that vendor closed, like many did, I ...
Last month, Google’s Artificial Intelligence product, Gemini, reportedly wouldn’t produce images of white people, not even George Washington. This made concerns about AI more real. One of the biggest issues about AI is the difficulty of creating unbiased content. If programmers inject any bias, AI will rapidly take that bias to extremes. Imagine the disastrous implications. What if AI ...
Cyber Monday was born out of data. In 2004, according to Scott Silverman of Shop.org, research revealed that the Monday after Thanksgiving was one of the biggest shopping days of the year. The data revealed that many people shop in person on Black Friday but would finish their shopping online the following Monday. This led savvy retailers to leverage this ...
n this series we’re discussing the risks and rewards of Chatbot GPT and related technology. When implementing or using chatbot technology, there are significant moral and ethical concerns. If Chatbot’s data input has bias or discrimination, its output will be biased or discriminatory as well. This can undermine our Christian values. Many concerns are also surfacing about plagiarism. Some pastors ...
In this series we’re discussing the risks and rewards of Chatbot GPT and related technology. Today, we’ll discuss some of its benefits. Here’s a summary that Chatbot GPT states are benefits of using their technology. First, it can provide customer service 24/7. The technology is also efficient, scalable and consistent. Chatbot can handle multiple customers or transactions simultaneously, providing flexible ...
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