Poet

• Dean of the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley is the 13th dean to receive this honor
  BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Poets&Quants the definitive online publication for business education news, has named Ann Harrison from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Her drive and vision have made sure that a rising tide will never overtake the island on which Haas firmly stands."
• Harrison earned her Ph.D. from Princeton in 1991 and remained at the World Bank until 1994.
• To learn more about the Poets&Quants Dean of the Year, please visit https://poetsandquants.com/2023/10/04/dean-of-the-year-ann-harrison-of-u...

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• Yet that doesn't mean that the literary ability of all AI should be discounted, applications created by INSEAD's AI lab using exacting rules can potentially be more useful and reliable than ChatGPT.
• One of those applications is TotoPoetry , a poetry generator trained on a rule-oriented approach to AI.
• This INSEAD Knowledge article by Parker gives a more in-depth analysis of the various AI methodologies underpinning ChatGPT and other applications.
• Following TotoPoetry, the INSEAD TotoGEO AI lab will launch even more groundbreaking AI applications in the coming months, including a powerful search engine, a newspaper generator, and a Wikipedia-like website.

• Critics point out endless lists of what should be fixed: the complexity of the tax code, or immigration reform, or the inefficiency of government.
• But each dilemma usually comes down to polarized deadlock between two competing visions and everyone’s conviction that theirs is the right one.
• Perhaps this white-knuckled insistence on being right is the root cause of the societal fissure – why everything seems so irreparably wrong.

Knowing you don’t know

• This nascent humility – “No, get out of here, I’m definitely not the wisest” – helped spark what became arguably the greatest philosophical life of all time.
• He discovered that the sages thought they knew more than they actually did.
• Rather, he acknowledged there were definite limitations to the knowledge he could claim.

Provoking the powerful

• In ancient Athens, as much as in the U.S. today, being perceived as right translated into money and power.
• The city-state’s culture was dominated by the Sophists, who taught rhetoric to nobles and politicians, and the Poets, ancient playwrights.
• Greek theater and epic poetry were closely related to religion, and their creators were treated as mouthpieces for aesthetic and moral truth.
• But what remains constant is his openness to uncertainty that keeps his inquiry on the move, pushing his inquiries further and deeper.

Paying the price

• It’s the danger that Socrates faced when he was brought to trial for corrupting Athens’ youth – the danger to the humble skeptics themselves.
• The first was an accusation that he taught students to make the weaker argument appear to be the stronger – which is actually what the Sophists did, not Socrates.
• The second was that he had invented new gods – again, he didn’t do that; poets and playwrights did.
• Socrates taught that being humble about one’s own views was a necessary step in searching for truth – perhaps the most essential one.