In the early days, artificial intelligence was mostly associated with futuristic dreams and sci-fi tales. Fast-forward to today, and it's a core part of business strategies, shaping industries and determining the winners and losers in a highly competitive market. Companies like Tesla, Google, and Amazon have not just adopted [...]
Recently, FPOV’s Integrated Strategy & Advising Practice Lead Dan Shuart sat down with the CEO of Oklahoma Electrical Cooperative (OEC) Fiber David Goodspeed. Goodspeed is the manager of broadband and fiber for OEC. Goodspeed has worked at Apple and as the Assistant Vice President of Digital Innovation at the [...]
A comprehensive study published in the journal Nature in August highlighted an increasingly apparent predicament: people struggle to recognize deepfake media. Between 27-50% of respondents to the survey were unable to correctly identify the authenticity of a deepfake video. In September, National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation [...]
Human production and prosperity have always been attributed to the tools that we use. Our history can be traced back through the tools that we created and the resulting impacts of those new technologies. First humans used fire, arrows, and spears – these tools set humans on a trajectory [...]
In July, a cybercrime tool called WormGPT was discovered active in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The tool uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help refine emails to be used in phishing or BEC attacks. Using generative AI technology to refine social engineering campaigns is becoming increasingly common. [...]
Generative AI as a Tool and Not a Threat By understanding generative AI, it can become less scary There is an inordinate amount of hype around generative artificial intelligence (AI) right now, and a lot of it is negative. A general fear is around the potential biased outcomes [...]
Five Trends of the Digital Workforce I recently gave a presentation to a group of financial, technical, and human resources (HR) leaders on the West Coast. It was interesting to give the talk, because a lot of the questions I received were around HR. These leaders were really [...]
High Value AI Solutions to Consider Implementing Within Your Business Today Take a deep breath and step back from all the hyperbole around AI. FPOV recently responded to the “Pause Giant AI Experiments” open letter, in which individuals including tech luminaries such as Elon Musk called for artificial [...]
Introduction The Future of Life Institute wrote an open letter titled “Pause Giant AI Experiments” on March 28, 2023, as a means to “call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least six months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” The letter itself had [...]
It is clear in the next decade there will be a series of innovations that change the complexity of the world as we know it today. These include the rapid commercialization of the internet of things, artificial intelligence, web3, virtual reality, the metaverse, blockchain, quantum computing, haptics, and 6G [...]