ChatGPT could pass the Wharton MBA and Minnesota School examinations. Within a week of its launch, the app gained one million users “because it could write emails, essays, poetry and answer questions or generate lines of code based on a mere prompt”.
In their book, ‘Lead Smart in The AI Era’, Amit Kumar Jain and Surbhi Jain discuss countless historical instances of technological revolution—the use of Enigma machines for decoding secret messages in World World II, Steve Jobs’ adoption of the graphical user interface, origins of Netflix and Uber, decline of Nokia, China’s AI chatbot based on Xi Jinping’s ideology, and many more.
The book talks about Alan Turing’s ‘Bombe’ machine—“which helped end war two years earlier”. The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), designed by him, was the “first complete specification” of a digital computer. Turing is also called the founding father of artificial intelligence.
A chapter on data security has recalled an incident from November 22, 2022, when an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) employee clicked a malware-ridden web link and the e-Hospital services “were crippled for nearly two weeks”. The attackers demanded ₹2 billion ransom to restore data. However, the data was finally retrieved a few days later from an “unaffected” server.
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As per Steve Morgan, the editor-in-chief of Cybercrime Magazine, “Cyberattacks were predicted to cause a loss of $6 trillion in 2021, which will increase by 15 per cent every year, reaching $10.5 trillion by 2025”.
Each chapter opens and closes with a quote from a well-known author or an entrepreneur. The language is simple, with occasional use of essential jargon. The authors have listed business models and numerous entrepreneurial measures for emerging and existing “leaders”. Historical contexts help soften the book’s non-fiction tone. The book is a good choice for anyone looking to pick up random knowledge on history, innovation and technology.
Book: Lead Smart In The AI Era
Authors: Amit Kumar Jain, Surbhi Jain
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Pages: 257
Price: ₹395
