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Can artificial intelligence lead to better cancer treatments? IBM spent six years and billions of dollars trying to find out. WSJ reports: “Oncology won’t be “a great space for making [AI] products” until there’s better data about patients, spanning…
Read more →Judea Pearl on the future of AI: “The key, he argues, is to replace reasoning by association with causal reasoning. Instead of the mere ability to correlate fever and malaria, machines need the capacity to reason that malaria causes fever.…
Read more →Here we will post AI books that we find worthy of attention.
Read more →This is the excerpt a McKinsey Quarterly (April 2018) interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Simon London (Mckinsey Quarterly): Can we pivot and talk a little about AI? What advice do you give to executives that you talk to about how…
Read more →Last year MIT technology review published a meta-analysis when artificial intelligence (AI) experts expected certain categories of jobs to be taken away by AI. If these estimates are true, there is a fundamental question for society: Will the economy be…
Read more →Chris McKenna has shot a beautiful 5-min video introducing students what they will learn in a business history he runs at Oxford using Oxford and its environment as the material to be studied in the course. The chief assignment is…
Read more →Sid Winter talks with Knowledge@Wharton about his new book on “history friendly evolutionary models”, which he co-authored with Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, and Luigo Orsenigo. The book deals with the interactions between innovation and industry evolution. Winter gives a quick…
Read more →Two important books on the American corporation have been written by Gerald Davis and Mark Mizruchi. They are reviewed by a very thoughtful essay by Braydon King in Contemporary Sociology and by Bruce Kogut in a shorter piece in ASQ.
Read more →This Management of Organization Review (MOR) special issue (edited by Suresh Bhagavatula, Ram Mudambi and Johann Peter Murmann) aims to explore the key features of the innovation and entrepreneurship eco-system in India. The objective of this Management and Organization Review…
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