Walter Jackson Ong SJ (November 30, 1912 – August 12, 2003) was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian, and philosopher. His major interest was in exploring how the transition from orality to literacy influenced culture and changed human consciousness. In 1978 he served as elected president of the Modern Language Association... In 1941 Ong earned a master's degree in English at Saint Louis University. His thesis on sprung rhythm in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins[1] was supervised by the young Canadian Marshall McLuhan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_J._Ong

Autonomy is buying Verity. The two companies' technology approaches are radically different, and Autonomy will face significant challenges in integrating them. Autonomy's pattern-matching-based technology is most effective in analyzing large, richly structured bodies of information. By contrast, Verity is oriented more toward individual words and their explicit meanings.

co-founder and CEO at Every

IFTF: How to Use ChatGPT for Strategic Foresight: Limitations, Possibilities, and Workarounds. Over the last few weeks, we’ve witnessed impressive demonstrations of ChatGPT at work. We’ve seen it write code, do math homework, produce college essays and screenplays, answer complex questions on almost any topic (more)

AI Writing Tools Like ChatGPT Are the Future of Learning & No, It’s Not Cheating. Sally Brandon, a communications lecturer at Melbourne’s Deakin University, applied bot detection technology to 54 essays she marked over summer and found 10 had “significant, detectable bot assistance”. (more)

How will ChatGPT change product management? (more)

Inside-Higher-Ed: Freaking Out About ChatGPT. Over the weekend, lots of folks working in academia learned that the OpenAI, ChatGPT interface is now capable of producing convincing (though uninspired) college student quality writing to just about any prompt within seconds. (more)

Clive Thompson: On Bullshit, And AI-Generated Prose. *There’s a word for prose and speech that exist mostly just to fill the space: bullshit. Recently, OpenAI released “ChatGPT”, a quite remakable chatbot. It’s built atop GPT-3 (more)

Andrew: TfT #1 / Tools of Tomorrow: 5 key trends for Tools for Thought (more)

Erik Hoel: I Got an Artificial Intelligence to Write My Novel. According to the literary critic Harold Bloom, among writers “influence always proceeds by misinterpretation.” In The Anxiety of Influence, Bloom argues that writers willfully ignore and misinterpret their predecessors in order to make their canvases as blank as possible. (more)

Noah Raford gave a talk on "Collapse dynamics: Phase transitions in complex social systems". (more)

MarketingBS: A Review of Talent. Today’s essay takes a look at Tyler Cowen's latest book, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (co-written with Daniel Gross). (more)

Dan Shipper: Can GPT-3 Explain My Past and Tell My Future? What do you want to know about yourself? asks the bot. The bot is built with GPT-3, and has access to hundreds of my old journal entries from the last 10 years that it can use to answer my questions. (journaling) (more)

digital Notebook, second brain (more)

work done by a Team, esp D And D (more)

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Google internal project/research to investigate what makes a successful team (team work). https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/ See Psychological Safety.

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have topped 100,000 for the first time. More than 100,000 people died over a 12-month period from fatal drug overdoses for the first time in U.S. history, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. (more)

co-founder Groove. Brother of Ray Ozzie

Jon Udell: GitHub for English teachers. In “GitHub for the rest of us” I argued that GitHub’s superpowers could serve everyone, not just coders. Ever since then (2015) I’ve felt that I overstated the case (more)