Helen Ebert

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Posts about leadership, occasionally AI, teamwork

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  • What is left of leadership?

    Every organization I work with is asking the same two questions right now, though rarely out loud. When did we stop expecting leaders to be good people? And does it even matter, if AI can make better decisions anyway? There was a moment when we decided character and competence were separable. Aristotle would have found…

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  • It’s been two years since my last AI post.

    Time to catch up. We’re in the “made by humans / don’t use AI / I can tell you used AI” phase. Some companies are waiting for a “killer business feature.” Meanwhile, OpenAI’s latest releases point to a route that always pays: fantasy and pleasure. If enterprise stalls, entertainment rarely does. A few weeks ago,…

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  • The future of teamwork (in tech)

    I’m not actually predicting the future. I’m generating scenarios. – William Gibson. The following outlines a possible future for teamwork in the tech industry, which is particularly obsessed with efficiency, performance and scale — ultimately reflecting many of the characteristics of capitalism. This view remains optimistic, but hopefully not naïve; it deliberately avoids dystopian scenarios…

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  • From von Neumann to Notion — interfaces and large language models

    Early interactions between humans and computers, how do interfaces evolve, limits we impose on our creativity and can LLM help narrow the gap. That is: Text and natural langauge as programming interfaces

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  • Intelligent servants, eloquent parrots and conversational user interface

    My colleague, a data scientist, completely unimpressed by the hype around ChatGPT, summed it up as, “In the end, it’s just an eloquent parrot”. So what’s so special about it?

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