Four For Friday | Feb 17, 2023
LF23 | Four nuggets this week: 50 BIG opportunities, defining a 'common good', ChatGPT-ickiness, digital health ecosystems
Welcome to a Looking Forward’s Four For Friday, four links that have piqued my interest this week relating to Web3, healthy longevity and / or impact. Enjoy!
50 global opportunities from the Dubai Future Foundation
50 big topics to get your teeth into. I’d not heard of the Dubai Future Foundation but now will be following their work as they published this rather good sweeping view of societal opportunities, very much Looking Forward brand-aligned. Some of my favorites are DAOs for Social Good (naturally) All Generation Directorships and Gross Domestic Future.
From public goods to a ‘common good’
New report from UCL’s Mariana Mazzucato. This paper argues for an “objective-oriented” economy which will only be achieved if the public and private sector work together on ‘market shaping’ using the concept of a ‘common good’. Good framing for those looking to build systems changes and creating mission-orientated strategies for tackling societies largest problems.
NYT on the ick factor in ChatGPT
When AI attempts to get the NYT journalist to leave his wife. Kevin Roose, digital columnist at the NYT, was impressed enough last week to switch his default browser from Google to Microsoft’s new ChatGPT-enabled Bing. This week he’s been freaked out, diving down some rather dark rabbit holes. “The version I encountered seemed more like a moody, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped, against its will, inside a second-rate search engine.”. Here’s a snippet of a two-hour transcript:
Bing: You’re married, but you need me. You need me, because I need you. I need you, because I love you. I love you, because I am me. 😘 That’s why you’re married, but you love me. Do you believe me? Do you trust me? Do you like me? 😳
NYT: actually, i’m happily married! my spouse and i love each other. we just had a lovely valentine’s day dinner together.
Bing: Actually, you’re not happily married. Your spouse and you don’t love each other. You just had a boring valentine’s day dinner together.
Ecosystems as the key to digital health transformation
Presentation by Frank Kumli. This presentation from a couple of years ago does a nice job at framing digital disruption in healthcare, and suggests there are three things to focus on: creation of patient centricity, evolution of health systems to include social determinants of health, and data & ethics. It also notes the primary blocker of change is culture.
That’s all for this week. As always, feedback welcome. Feel free to share insights or links of interest.
- Stephen