Author: Roy Tomizawa

Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Self Awareness

Losing and Finding Yourself: A Perfect Five-Minute Scene From Ted Lasso

Roy Tomizawa

In the middle of the journey of my life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost. - Dante Alighieri     The precocious young manager of West Ham was out of a job, with all the time in the world to wallow in self-pity. The owner of the AFC… Continue reading Losing and Finding Yourself: A Perfect Five-Minute Scene From Ted Lasso

AI, Leadership

How ChatGPT Quickly Transformed our Dream Future into a Nightmare Scenario: The AI Community’s Call for a Pause

Roy Tomizawa

The robots are coming. You just won’t see them. World domination could happen. You just wouldn’t know it. If AI super intelligence becomes so super powerful, why would it manhandle us when it could easily manipulate us? After all, when we, the "superior" specie, lead the cow, the "inferior" specie, the beast is unaware if… Continue reading How ChatGPT Quickly Transformed our Dream Future into a Nightmare Scenario: The AI Community’s Call for a Pause

AI, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership

What it Means to Be Human: Our Competitive Advantages Over AI

Roy Tomizawa

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." "The ultimate measure… Continue reading What it Means to Be Human: Our Competitive Advantages Over AI

AI, Creativity

Outsourcing Humanity: A Love Story, by ChatGPT-4

Roy Tomizawa

I've recently been obsessed with crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Those who sign up to these platforms do Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) - online jobs like answering surveys, identifying images, transcribing audio files, providing sentiment response, or proofreading. In exchange, they get paid relatively small amounts from twenty cents to several dollars. Some who… Continue reading Outsourcing Humanity: A Love Story, by ChatGPT-4

Health, Performance, Sleep

The Yearly Global Experiment that Shouts: Get Your Sleep!

Roy Tomizawa

I can predict the future. On Monday, March 13, 2023, more than any other day, significantly more people will suffer from heart attacks, or be involved in car accidents, in the United States and other parts of the world. On Monday, March 13, 2023, people living in the United States, excepting those located in Hawaii… Continue reading The Yearly Global Experiment that Shouts: Get Your Sleep!

AI, Performance

Chat GPT Accelerates “Time to Insight”: Look Out Knowledge Worker! ChatGPT’s Coming for You!

Roy Tomizawa

Insight, Not Data We don't want more data, or information, or details. At least not for issues we are trying to better understand. We want insight - different assumptions, new perspectives, credible context - that can lead to new ideas. Friends seek out their inner circle hoping their close friends will have advice. Students go… Continue reading Chat GPT Accelerates “Time to Insight”: Look Out Knowledge Worker! ChatGPT’s Coming for You!

AI, Performance

Flying Up the Learning Curve in this New Age of Enlightenment: How Lee Sedol and AI Showed Humanity We Still Have Lots to Learn, and That’s Great!

Roy Tomizawa

On March 9, 2016, World Go Champion, Lee Sedol of South Korea, had been roundly defeated in Game 1 by AlphaGo, an AI system designed by DeepMind to play the ancient North Asian board game of strategy. The game of Go is very complex, and defeating Go masters had been the holy grail for AI… Continue reading Flying Up the Learning Curve in this New Age of Enlightenment: How Lee Sedol and AI Showed Humanity We Still Have Lots to Learn, and That’s Great!