Conversation Agent - Valeria Maltoni

Is Intelligence Artificial?

“Intelligence is the ability to recognize patterns, recognize relationships, reason about it and make a prediction or plan an action. That’s what intelligence is. It has nothing to do with general intelligence, intelligence is just solving problems.” That's Jensen Huang's definition of the word. Huang is CEO of Nvdia Corporation, an American multinational technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California. He would say that, the company invented the GPU, which uses Artificial Intelligence Computing to create interactive graphics. A definition is an instrument of purpose. Huang's definition of intelligence reveals his purpose. His hypothesis is that... Read more →

Human Systems Need Better Thinking

Current systems don't take into account the energy in human systems. Systems need better thinking. Twenty years ago, I coined a term to talk about the effects of this situation: “energy vampires.” Time and time again, I've observed (and proven in business) that when things go bad, it's no so much because of “bad” energy. But it's often because energy doesn't circulate at all. What and therefore who sucks energy? Systems and what they prevent. Because of how they're designed. Here's how: The efficient forced self-administered customer service (and therefore an additional fee or energy tax on customers) Technology with... Read more →

Language and the Media Narrative

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” said Ludwig Wittgenstein. Most people prefer the use of known and simple words, to cover a lot of ground. Yet when we learn more words, we expand not just our verbal tool set, but also our mind and thinking. Yes, too many words can complicate things, but too few can get you stuck. Too few words limit your ability to tell a story. Fewer stories and you lose an important narrative. In history as in business culture, language matters. How language has changed In 2016, Umberto Galimberti, a contemporary... Read more →

"Me, Inc." and Autonomy

“You are a brand.” From this simple thesis Tom Peters put forth in a book: Brand Called You, came an article in Fast Company magazine. The personal brand movement started in earnest. It was 1997. I revisited the concept at the The Blog Herald more than ten years on. Especially for those of us who worked in communications for organizations it was an intriguing thought. They were the times of still substantial budgets, good agency fees and media empires. Agencies were building brands through sheer push: design for recognition, make a big enough media purchase, and talk it up in... Read more →

Reclaiming Personal Power

“Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it's necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything — that's part of how you teach people they can't do anything, they're helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them.” Noam Chomsky said no qualifications are necessary to observe what's going on. In fact, anyone has the intellectual capacity... Read more →