Talk About Talk - Executive & Leadership Communication Skills

Are you optimistic about our future with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? Avi Goldfarb (professor and author of “Prediction Machines”) shares a brief history of AI, various AI applications that are being used in the marketplace, and specific reasons why we should be optimistic about our future with AI.   References & Links Avi Goldfarb Rotman UofT – http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/Faculty/FacultyBios/Goldfarb.aspx BOOK: “Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence” – https://amzn.to/2GoX6Ac LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/avi-goldfarb-46a7473/ Twitter – https://twitter.com/avicgoldfarb The Organizations Creative Destruction Lab – https://www.creativedestructionlab.com/ Marketing Science – https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/mksc/editorial-board NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research – https://www.nber.org/ AtomWise – https://www.atomwise.com/ OpenAI – https://openai.com/ Articles, Books & Concepts Artificial Intelligence – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence “Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence” –https://amzn.to/2GoX6Ac “It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens” by danah boyd – https://amzn.to/2PiorYK Machine Learning – https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/high-tech/our-insights/an-executives-guide-to-machine-learning Deep learning – https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deep-learning.asp Google Search + – https://www.fastcompany.com/90308480/40-incredibly-useful-things-you-didnt-know-google-search-could-do AI impact on trade – https://www.nber.org/papers/w24917 Wikipedia pages impact on travel – http://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/dp/dp12053.pdf AI & Communication – https://becominghuman.ai/how-has-ai-changed-the-way-humans-communicate-10369fc2453a AI & Communication – https://www.quantifiedcommunications.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-in-communication “The Matrix” movie– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise) The People Ajay Agrawal – http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/Faculty/FacultyBios/Agrawal Erik Brynjolfsson – http://ebusiness.mit.edu/erik/ Elsa Kania – https://twitter.com/EBKania Joshua Gans – http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/Faculty/FacultyBios/Gans.aspx Geoff Hinton – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton Larry Tesler – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Tesler TalkAboutTalk Weekly Email Blog – https://talkabouttalk.com/blog/#newsletter-signup Andrea – [email protected] COLOUR episode – https://talkabouttalk.com/10-communicating-with-colour-with-daryl-aitken-jenn-purkis-lori-ryerson/   Interview Transcript Professor Avi Goldfarb: Thank you. Dr. Andrea Wojnicki: Let’s start with some context. I think our listeners would love to hear how you came from studying economics and then working as a marketing professor at a business school to writing a best seller on AI. AG: Okay, so I was a graduate student in the late 1990s, in economics. And there was this crazy new technology called the internet. So, my dissertation was about competition between search engines before there was such thing as Google. AW: Just to remind some of us or to provide context for the younger listeners… What were those search engines again? AG: So AOL had its own search engine. There was Lycos, there was HotBot. And the dominant player was Yahoo! AW: right. AG: Yahoo! is still around. And I should say Google was in the final data that I use for my dissertation because it was from 2000. And Google had just come out of beta. And I had 20-something search engines in the data and Google was number 17. So they were there, but they were tiny. My teaching was marketing and statistics. And Ajay Agrawal, my co-author in the book, started this program called the Creative Destruction Lab. And the Creative Destruction Lab is a program to help science-based start-ups scale up. And we started in 2012. And in that first year, there was this company called Atomwise, which called itself an AI company. And we never really heard of AI outside of science fiction. And they were building AI for biotech. And then the next year, there were a couple of AI companies. And then the next year became clear that this was a big new technology, because there was a flood of companies doing AI. And pretty soon at the lab, we had more AI start-ups than anywhere else in the world. Because of some quirky history of Toronto, having an important place in that. AW: So Toronto is an AI cluster? AG: Yes. Or at least it started that way, it still plays an important role. But the core technology underlying current excitement of AI, something called Deep Learning. And the perhaps the core researcher and deep learning is man named Geoff Hinton, who’s a computer science professor emeritus now here at Univer

Are you the bossy eldest? The troubled middle child? The baby of the family? Or an only child? Does your personality fit with your birth order stereotype? What about your kids? Listen as Dr. Andrea and her brother, musician and sound producer Brian Campbell, talk about birth order effects, how the stereotypes fit with their family, and why the research is so inconsistent. References & Links Brian Campbell • Email – [email protected] • LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-r-campbell-2018b9b6/?originalSubdomain=ca • Photos – https://talkabouttalk.com/about/ Siblings • National Siblings Day – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siblings_Day • Qs to ask your siblings – https://www.rootreport.com/sibling-tag-questions/ Sibling Order Effects Communication Skills • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01755.x • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1128089?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents General • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9280.00193 • https://www.pnas.org/content/112/46/14224.short • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656610001406 • https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED074426.pdf • https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/conscious-communication/201709/sibling-relationships-are-cradle-grave • https://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/the-brother-sister-bond/ • https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/field-guide-families/201210/the-secret-powers-middle-children • https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/how-raise-happy-cooperative-child/201605/the-effect-birth-order-children Explanations for Inconsistencies • Ernst & Angst, 1983 • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691100345X TalkAboutTalk • Weekly Email Blog – https://talkabouttalk.com/blog/#newsletter-signup • Andrea – [email protected] • Cynthia Barlow Body Language episode – https://talkabouttalk.com/1-body-language-with-executive-coach-cynthia-barlow/ • Bradley Christensen Using Your Voice episode – https://talkabouttalk.com/2-using-your-voice-with-baritone-opera-singer-bradley-christensen/ Other Resources Mentioned • “Bond with Health” with Vanessa Bond – https://www.bondwithhealth.com/ • “Foothills Famous” with Jonathan Stoddart – http://foothillsfamous.com/ • “Portfolio Career Podcast” with David Nebinski – https://www.portfoliocareerpodcast.com/ • “Prediction Machines” by Avi Goldfarb – https://amzn.to/2X9LO9v • TEDTalks – https://www.ted.com/#/ • Toronto Fashion Week – https://torontofashionweek.to/   Interview Transcript Brian Campbell: Yeah, respect, absolutely. Agree with one another all the time, maybe not so much. Andrea Wojnicki: True. Where are you, Brian? BC: Currently, I’m in Half Moon Lake Alberta, in my cozy home just east of Edmonton. I’m sitting in my basement. This is typically the space where I do all my production work. Although once in a while I do come out of my cave and sit at our kitchen table. But I’m sitting in front of a couple of big KRK speakers with my trusty headphones beside me and my laptop. So and this is typically where I sit and do all the production, whether it’s the Edit notes with you, or the audio edits themselves. Yeah, I spent a great deal of time down here either working on my day job or doing the work for TalkAboutTalk. AW: You know, what I think would be cool would be if you took a photo, and we’ll post it in the show notes so that the listeners can see where the editing and mixing happens for each of the podcast episodes, I’m actually curious as well. BC: Okay, I will get my housekeeper on it. His name is Brian , and he’s gonna clean up the base on before he takes a photo. AW: Excellent. Anyway, as the producer and editor of the 13 podcast that we’ve recorded and released so far, you are intimately familiar with the TalkAboutTalk material. And I was just wondering if you have any comments regarding season one. BC: It’s been a journey and a really good one. When we started off I, I viewed it as an opportunity to support my big sister, it was viewed from my perspective anyway, as kind of the collision of our careers. And I’m really happy with the way it turned out. I’ve always been obsessed with communication and perspective, and to be able to be a part of a production where we’re doing the deep dive into how people affect one another, through their ability to communicate. And to, quote, talk, if they’re interested. The content is interesting. I think we’ve got a lot of great guests as well. And then looking at what we’re rolling into. And season two, I think we’re really just getting my feet under so some, some more taboo topics on the horizon, which I think is really important, because I think it’s important to speak to people and to speak to some of the more difficult topics. AW: Yeah, I agree. I’m really excited about those