Since moving multiple times, I've gradually converted physical books to e-books. Usually, I open e-books during commutes or while resting at cafes. Rakuten Kobo is like my portable bookshelf, allowing me to switch between different reading content anytime, helping me think through business problems and learn.
Especially recently, AI topics have been quite heated. It seems like missing a single day of attention could cause you to fall behind. However, I'm also very concerned about future trends in the AI era, business possibilities, and talent solutions for the future.
When serving clients, their questions often focus on "how to use AI to replace human labor." After digging deeper, clients don't actually want to eliminate "people," but rather find more beneficial talent and business models for their enterprises. Thus, technology and AI tools have become new solutions in this trend. To understand these issues and find answers, contextual and theoretical books provide unchanging insights and case studies.
I recommend 8 great books I love:
One. "Small Scale is the Trend" - Hermann Hauser, Kevin Maney
▎ An innovative trend combining cutting-edge technology and economics is disrupting giant industries. Now, scale is no longer an advantage but rather a liability and burden. Startups are using AI to automate operations that previously required expensive investments and rent various cloud platforms to build businesses, allowing them to escape last century's model. Small scale can also achieve great success!
Two.
▎ "The Causal Revolution" impacts not just artificial intelligence but all research fields
Today's machine learning relies on "correlation" rather than "causality." If we could successfully introduce causal thinking into computers, it would transform them into true scientists, making them valuable partners that provide us with more reasonable insights. Since causal thinking can demonstrate responsibility, computers could thereby possess moral sensibility—"morally sentient strong AI" is the ultimate pursuit of the causal revolution in the AI field. The author describes this as "the first and best gift artificial intelligence gives to humanity."
Three.
▎ "Evolutionary Thinking" is a tool to help everyone recover their creativity, allowing those of us who aren't geniuses to correctly understand what creativity is and clearly comprehend the processes it must undergo. At the same time, understand that creativity transcends willpower—only through the exchange of "random variation" and "necessary selection," anyone can increase the probability of creation occurring. Learn effective thinking patterns to unlock creativity. Most importantly, as more people develop creativity, we'll combine our strengths to contribute to the world.
Four.
▎ Beyond digital transformation, leverage artificial intelligence and big data to create seamless customer experiences. In the era of big data and AI emergence, digital transformation alone is no longer enough.
Every enterprise should adopt omnichannel transformation centered on customers!
Five.
▎ Upgrade parenting mindset and strategy to prepare children with the abilities to meet the new world of the future!
Parents in the AI era must provide children with tools for self-actualization and help them become capable of continuous self-upgrade and self-renewal. First, we must become upgraded new-version parents, providing our children with unique value.
Karen adds: Many parents still restrict children's screen time, hoping they return to paper books. However, if children use technology properly, learn to apply software early, and become familiar with software logic between platforms, creating possibilities, using AI early actually gives children more exploration opportunities, because this is exactly the future they'll face!
Six.
Should present their true selves. Enterprises should discover "non-traditional" talent.
Who are the talents not eliminated by AI? Talent recruitment is the most headache-inducing issue for CEOs and senior executives, especially under globalization and technological development where the world changes rapidly and corporate competition intensifies. When ChatGPT overturns our imagination of future work, the definition of "talent" has been completely rewritten!
After recommending AI-related books, let me share my personal work:
Seven.
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Eight.
When the world challenges you and you still want to stand firm and earn applause, there really is no shortcut.
But fortunately, the roads you've walked are never wasted; the world will return to you everything you deserve.
When the world is a fog, who can find a way out?
These 8 books are easily accessible on the KOBO e-book platform, enriching not only our knowledge base about AI but also helping you think. Whether you're a deep explorer of the AI field or a beginner, these curated books will be important companions in your knowledge journey.
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