Innovation Intelligence Review #70 AI: Companies, China; HUMINT, Rank of Nations, Fake and…
…Elections, AR/VR/MR, Analysis and Numbers, Data-Storage, Wildfires
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❓ What? AI and companies;
✍️ Who: Big Think and Mike Bechtel (chief futurist at Deloitte Consulting LLP)
🎯 Why (it is a must read):
illustrates, among other things, what the corporate approach to the strategic implementation of AI processes within organizations should be;
🔗 Link:
https://bigthink.com/business/humanity-strikes-back-the-5th-industrial-revolution/ ;
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❓ What? HumInt;
✍️ Who: Human Intelligence in the Digital Era #4; SVR, Foreign Information Service of the Russian Federation; Big Think;
🎯 Why (it is a must read): the well-known 7/38/55 ratio between verbal communication, tone of voice and body language that has been very popular for years in HumInt is probably, considering its genesis, yet another urban legend;
🔗 Links:
https://intelligences-connectees.fr/2023/07/02/lere-numerique-lettre-dinformation-4/ ;
http://svr.gov.ru/upload/iblock/ea9/13062023.pdf ;
https://bigthink.com/the-learning-curve/the-7-38-55-rule-debunking-the-golden-ratio-of-conversation/ ;
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❓ What? Strategic competitiveness of nations;
✍️ Who: Ray Dalio;
🎯 Why (it’s worth reading): ‘The Great Powers Index: 2024’ is, among the thousand indices found in the literature on the competitiveness of different country systems, a useful tool that takes into account non-immediate parameters, comments on the results and proposes the ten-year development and regression perspectives of 24 nations (report);
🔗 Link: https://economicprinciples.org/downloads/DalioRay_Power_Index_Appendix.pdf ;
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❓ What? Disinformation and elections;
✍️ Who: Rest of World;
🎯 Why (it’s worth reading):
this year 2 billion people in 58 countries will vote or have already voted. Rest of World has developed a useful tool to track fake news produced through AI for the purpose of disinformation;
🔗 Link:
https://restofworld.org/2024/elections-ai-tracker/ ;
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❓ What? Augmented, virtual and mixed reality;
✍️ Who: New Yorker;
🎯 Why (must read):
the state of the art of AR/VR/MR in gaming and business applications;
🔗 Link:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/22/can-the-world-be-simulated ;
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❓ What? Analysis and interpretation of numbers;
✍️ Who: Scienza in Rete (Science on the Net);
🎯 Why (must read):
the interpretation of numbers for an intelligence analyst can become a virus that is difficult to eradicate if the biases underlying the disease are not known or cannot be obviated for reasons beyond their will. An example regarding pre/on/post COVID-19 mortality;
🔗 Link:
[P.S.: link in Italian but the translation is not a problem for you, ChatGPT magicians 😉]
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❓ What? Data-storage (1);
✍️ Who: ScienceClic;
🎯 Why (must read):
how data-storage technology works with DNA as a medium and why it is important…;
🔗 Link:
https://youtu.be/ZuB3yB7QWCk;
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❓ What? Data-Storage (2);
✍️ Who: Mix On Line;
🎯 Why (must read):
…how the music industry highlights that current digital media are inadequate for long-term data preservation;
🔗 Link:
https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives ;
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❓ What? Generative AI and its Chinese use in the military;
✍️ Who: Rand;
🎯 Why (must read):
The paper examines how the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) views the potential use of generative AI for influence and disinformation operations. The analysis draws on open-source Chinese military writings and recent reports on Chinese activities, and focuses on potential implications for operations against Taiwan and the US election;
🔗 Link:
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/testimonies/CTA3100/CTA3191-1/RAND_CTA3191-1.pdf ;
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❓ What? Collective intelligence and wildfires;
✍️ Who: Ten Tree;
🎯 Why (must read):
tentree is a Canadian sustainable clothing company that has pioneered a good example of collective intelligence aimed at preventing and combating wildfires. By uploading a photo of a fire to the site, it is geo-localized through image analysis and positioned on a virtual map;
🔗 Link:
https://followingwildfire.com/ .
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⬇️ 🇮🇹 ⬇️
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❓ Cosa? AI e aziende;
✍️ Chi: Big Think e Mike Bechtel (chief futurist at Deloitte Consulting LLP);
🎯 Perché (è da leggere):
illustra, tra il resto, quale deve essere l’approccio aziendale all’implementazione strategica dei processi di AI all’interno delle organizzazione;
🔗 Link:
https://bigthink.com/business/humanity-strikes-back-the-5th-industrial-revolution/ ;
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❓ Cosa? HumInt;
✍️ Chi: Renseignement Humain à l’Ère Numérique #4; SVR, Servizio Informazioni Estero della Federazione Russa; Big Think;
🎯 Perché (è da leggere):
il noto rapporto 7/38/55 tra comunicazione verbale, il tono di voce e il linguaggio del corpo molto in voga da anni nello HumInt probabilmente, considerando la sua genesi, è l’ennesima leggenda metropolitana;
🔗 Link:
https://intelligences-connectees.fr/2023/07/02/lere-numerique-lettre-dinformation-4/
http://svr.gov.ru/upload/iblock/ea9/13062023.pdf
https://bigthink.com/the-learning-curve/the-7-38-55-rule-debunking-the-golden-ratio-of-conversation/ ;
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❓ Cosa? Competitività strategica delle nazioni;
✍️ Chi: Ray Dalio;
🎯 Perché (è da leggere):
‘The Great Powers Index: 2024’ è, tra i mille indici che si trovano in letteratura sulla competitività dei diversi sistemi paese, un utile strumento che prende in considerazione parametri non immediati, commenta i risultati e propone le ottiche di sviluppo e regresso a dieci anni di 24 nazioni (report);
🔗 Link:
https://economicprinciples.org/downloads/DalioRay_Power_Index_Appendix.pdf ;
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❓ Cosa?: Disinformazione ed elezioni;
✍️ Chi: Rest of World;
🎯 Perché (è da leggere):
quest’anno 2 miliardi di persone in 58 paesi voteranno o hanno già votato. Rest of World ha sviluppato un utile strumento per tracciare le fake prodotte attraverso AI a scopo di disinformazione;
🔗 Link: https://restofworld.org/2024/elections-ai-tracker/ ;
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❓ Cosa? Realtà aumentata, virtuale e mista;
✍️ Chi: New Yorker;
🎯 Perché (è da leggere):
lo stato dell’arte di AR/VR/MR in ambito ludico e delle applicazioni aziendali;
🔗 Link:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/22/can-the-world-be-simulated ;
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❓ Cosa? Analisi e interpretazione dei numeri;
✍️ Chi: Scienza in Rete;
🎯 Perché (è da leggere):
l’interpretazione dei numeri per un analista di intelligence può diventare un virus difficile da estirpare se i bias alla base della malattia non sono conosciuti o non possono essere ovviati per ragioni che esulano la volontà. Un esempio con riguardo la mortalità pre/on/post COVID-19;
🔗 Link:
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❓ Cosa? Data-storage (1);
✍️ Chi: ScienceClic;
🎯 Perché (è da leggere):
come funziona la tecnologia del data-storage avendo come supporto il DNA e perché è importante…;
🔗 Link:
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❓ Cosa? Data-Storage (2);
✍️ Chi: Mix On Line;
🎯 Perché (è da leggere):
…come l’industria della musica evidenza che gli attuali supporti digitali sono inadeguati per la conservazione dei dati a lungo termine;
🔗 Link:
https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives ;
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❓ Cosa? AI generativa e suo utilizzo cinese in ambito militare;
✍️ Chi: Rand;
🎯 Perché (è da leggere):
il paper esamina come l’Esercito Popolare di Liberazione (EPL) considera il potenziale utilizzo dell’IA generativa per operazioni di influenza e disinformazione. L’analisi si basa su scritti militari cinesi di fonte aperta e recenti rapporti sulle attività cinesi e si concentra sulle potenziali implicazioni per le operazioni contro Taiwan e le elezioni statunitensi;
🔗 Link:
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/testimonies/CTA3100/CTA3191-1/RAND_CTA3191-1.pdf ;
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❓ Cosa? intelligence collettiva e incendi;
✍️ Chi: Ten Tree;
🎯 Perché (è da leggere):
tentree è un’azienda canadese di abbigliamento sostenibile che ha inizializzato un buon esempio di intelligence collettiva finalizzata alla prevenzione e al contrasto degli incendi boschivi. Caricando sul sito una foto di un incendio esso viene geo-localizzato attraverso l’analisi dell’immagine e posizionato su una mappa virtuale;
🔗 Link:
https://followingwildfire.com/ .
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