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Issues in AI

Retrain the Brain

A bit different…

Reinvent Invention Part 2

Reinvent Invention

If kids were bonds… Part 2

If kids were bonds…

Gender Pt 2

Gender

More Kant vs Hobbes

Kant vs Hobbes Part 2

Kant vs Hobbes

Are we Rational? pt. 2

Are We Rational?

Future of Work pt. 2

Future of Work

Cyborgs pt. 2

Cyborgs

Messy Society

Technology & Thought

Can GPS Cause Dementia?

Top 10 Musings of a Mad Scientist from 2021: Pt. 2

Top 10 Musings of a Mad Scientist from 2021: Pt. 1

I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg 3

I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg 2

Newsletter: Oct. 2021

Happy October, Socos Academy! Huge thanks to all who have switched over to our paid memberships since the announcements last month. Here’s what’s going on soon… -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October Talks & Keynotes Indeed: Tuesday morning, Dr. Ming participated in a fireside chat for Senior Directors and VPs at Indeed [https:

Reading List: Sept. 2021

ICYMI: Dr. Ming published her latest episode "I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" on Socos.org earlier this week. Thanks for reading! If you're looking for more, here’s what we read this month...

I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg

East Coast Swing 2

East Coast Swing

What do you do when you can see that people need help, but you’ve promised to do nothing?

Newsletter: Sept. 2021

As we approach the end of summer, so do we approach another exciting milestone for Socos Academy...

Jitterbug 2

As we changed Thumper's diabetes treatment based on the data we collected, I found that he spent 40% less time with too much sugar in his blood without any increase in dangerous low blood sugar episodes.

Jitterbug

Hack Diabetes. Commit crimes. Eat Goose.

Superpowers

I impersonated a cyborg at the White House. The Secret Service freaked out and gave me the opportunity to tell the president about inventing a superpower.

Remote Work 8

Remote Work 7

Remote Work 6

Mad Science: How Not to Get a Job

Mad Science: Mental Health Meets Machine Learning

Remote Work 5

Remote Work 4

Remote Work 3

Events: Remote

Book Vivienne (Virtually)! [keynotes@socos.org] > "@salesforcejobs just hosted a wonderful conversation with Dr. Vivienne Ming of @SocosLabs. The power of #AI in predicting success and productivity is boundless!" Vivienne has continued consulting remotely with a diverse range of organizations around the world through COVID-19. Her talks cover everything from

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Reading List: Remote

Here's what we're reading this month.

Remote Work

Business as usual, but People Are Different

This Is Not the Industrial Revolution 5

This Is Not the Industrial Revolution 4

This Is Not the Industrial Revolution 3

Events: Not the IR

Vivienne has continued consulting remotely with a diverse range of organizations around the world through COVID-19. Her talks cover everything from the science of long-term stress to data science for D&I, creating AI superpowers for kids to leveraging AI as a tool to understand the impact of policy. Whether

This Is Not the Industrial Revolution 2

Reading List: Not the IR

Here's what we're reading this month.

This Is Not the Industrial Revolution

And it’s not just pompous jackasses like the not-so-strawman above. I have read 116 policy papers on the future of work... They are all wrong.

Reading List: One GPU, One Vote

The global AI agenda: Promise, reality, and a future of data sharing [https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/03/26/950287/the-global-ai-agenda-promise-reality-and-a-future-of-data-sharing/] , MIT Technology Review (2020) I Used to Run Google. Silicon Valley Could Lose to China. We can’t win the technology wars without the federal government’s help. [https:

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Events: One GPU, One Vote

Though most large events and gatherings have been cancelled due to COVID-19, Vivienne has continued consulting remotely with companies and organizations around the world. These briefings have covered Vivienne's research in AI, data science, HR, and innovation, but have also addressed the impact of Covid-19 on business and culture. These

One GPU, One Vote 2

One GPU, One Vote

AI needs a constitution

Reading List: The Index

What We're Reading Investors prefer entrepreneurial ventures pitched by attractive men [https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2014/03/06/1321202111.full.pdf], PNAS, 2014 Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector [https://www.nber.org/chapters/c14103] [https://www.nber.org/chapters/c14103], NBER, 2020

Events: The Index

Get a taste for Vivienne’s kooky style and dynamic stage presence in our keynotes reel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqdYfNQat5M]! As many of you know, most large events and gatherings have been rescheduled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. However, Vivienne has continued consulting remotely with companies and

The Inclusion Impact Index 6

The Inclusion Impact Index 5

The Inclusion Impact Index 4

Reading List: Joe vs Jose

What We're Reading Individual and collective encoding of risk in animal groups [https://www.pnas.org/content/116/41/20556], PNAS, 2019 Using Causal Reasoning To Guide Algorithms Toward a Fairer World [https://ai.shorensteincenter.org/ideas/2019/4/3/using-causal-reasoning-to-guide-algorithms-toward-a-fairer-world] , The Ethical Machine, 2020 Individual differences in trust evaluations

The Inclusion Impact Index 3

The Inclusion Impact Index 2

The Inclusion Impact Index

The inclusion Impact Index tracks good things

Reading List: "Represent!"

A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0815-z], Nature, 2020 Evidence of bias against girls and women in contexts that emphasize intellectual ability [https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-62311-015], American Psychologist, 2018 Active learning narrows achievement gaps for

Joe vs José 2

Joe vs José

What does it cost to be different?

Covid-19 2

Covid-19

A few months ago the entire world boarded a trolley and we didn’t even notice. Within a month, it became obvious (to most) that if we didn’t change tracks, millions would die. Yet hidden along our new line are millions of other lives.

Reading list: Covid-19

We Can Safely Restart the Economy in June. Here’s How. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/opinion/coronavirus-economy.html], New York Times (2020) Keeping Business Alive: The Government as Buyer of Last Resort [http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/coronavirus.pdf], Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman (2020) Substantial undocumented infection

Represent! 2

Represent!

Reading List: Sexyface

Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100619832930], Psychological Science in the Public Interest (2019) Uncertainty in learning, choice, and visual fixation [https://www.pnas.org/content/117/6/3291.abstract?etoc], PNAS (2019) Reinforcement-learning AIs are vulnerable to

Events: Sexyface

Upcoming As many of you know, most large events and gatherings have been rescheduled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. However, Vivienne has been remotely consulting with organizations and Chief Executives on how data science should be used to shed new light on the spread and impact of COVID and similar

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Sexyface

East Coast Swing (Sneak Peek)

A day of serendipity produced the first AI for manic-depression.

Events: Cyborgs

Malcolm Gladwell, Sir Ken, and some weirdo. Plus, the closing keynote at Grace Hooper!

Reading List: Cyborgs

Here's what we're reading this month.

How to Robot-Proof Your Kids

During a visit to the Department of Education a few years ago, some of the world’s top education researchers posed this question: “How do we robot-proof students?”

Small Sacrifices

The science, economics, and story of Purpose. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Release Announcements Whether you want a signed copy, an ebook, and dates for the tour, it's time to subscribe! Sign up here

The Long Caravan

I'm having rather a lot of fun, here.

Muse

Parenting is hard. We make it easy.

Messy Human Problems

There are only ever messy human problems, and they only ever have messy human solutions. This upcoming book explores how to explore the hidden interdependencies that define so many challenging problems in the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Release Announcements Whether you want a signed copy, an ebook, and dates

The Tax on Being Different

There is a tax, and we all pay it.

Professional Mad Scientist

I have the coolest job in the whole world. People bring me problems, and I get to help them for free. And if I actually come up with a solution, I give it ways. It's the best job in the whole world, "Professional Mad Scientist". If we knew how to