Thomas Otter

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Thomas Otter on LinkedIn: #hrtech #ai | 19 comments We have all got the glossy brochures and the endless possibilities. This lecture series is about making AI work. Now. The nitty-gritty of actually deploying AI… | 19 comments on LinkedIn

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Me too. Most of it is what I call Potemkin AI.

Financial Times. Putting in the Guardian is preaching to the choir.

“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot …

Another good article, this time from @mipsytipsy.bsky.social, about Brian Chesky's Airbnb story and how he put all the blame on the dysfunctional organisation he created, and then praised himself for learning basic management practices on the job. Founder mode indeed 🤢

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2024 Reflections and review Building Acadian Ventures Fund II.

Doing the reflecting thing. thomasotter.substack.com/p/2024-refle...

It is a brilliant book. I’d make it compulsory reading for every comp sci student.

An image showing an incorrect AI overview result for the query "factors 3719". The result instead talks about a database error that has code 3719

An amusing error: I was asking google for the factors of the number 3719 (it's prime).

Just had an idea

meme showing ma looking at 2145661(1) PDF file while other girl named 2145661.PDF looks on angrily

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

In Auto-Sapients We Trust: Deployment and Adoption of AI in production. Riffing on Rachel Botsman's lecture. Shift, Leap and Stack.

My latest post. A riff on a Rachel Botsman lecture. AI and trust. thomasotter.substack.com/p/in-auto-sa...

One thing many people are not aware of is that Apple has an entire building full of engineers who are working to push the boundaries of physics in seeing how far an AirPods case can fling the individual earbuds in different directions whenever you drop the case.

Mary Tyler Moore accidentally nailed a perfect trick shot in *The Dick Van Dyke Show* (1962)—on the FIRST take.

It was supposed to be done by a pro, but she shocked everyone and pulled it off herself. Absolute legend. 🎱✨

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I suggest it needs to be savored and sipped. Best TV since tinker tailor soldier spy with Alec Guiness.

Wow.

I think BlueSky will be significantly better for conferences than any other site. Organisers can create speaker starter packs to allow attendees to auto-follow all speakers. Also a custom feed of all folks skeeting abut a conf would be a big win.

slush photo with train

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AI grandma fights back against scammers Daisy's mission is two-fold: To waste scammers' time so they can't speak to real people and to draw attention to fraud by warning consumers to be vigilant.

And to think people said there was no good use for AI
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So good.

Do you mean complaints you have written or complaints about you?

In case you are wondering why it’s called #slush

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At slush this week

Reputation Matters When CEOs need to put their reputation above their company's

Thoughts on CEO reputation in my Substack Speech Bubbles: open.substack.com/pub/otterc/p...

Anyone new here talking about Future of Work, HR or payroll? Maybe even tech?

If so, let’s connect!

The power of doubt Module 4 of the Oxford Dip AI.

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My growing AI ethics bookcase.