What is the world of an artificial manager made of? Part 2 – Things in the imagination

Once you know that the most important sense of a robot manager has to be the sense of activity, let’s now consider what an activity is that we perform and how it can be imagined. In this post I will show the first of the basic bricks of the robot manager’s world, which is a thing. Let’s start at the beginning, which is the philosophy. “Why is there an entity at all, and not rather nothing? That is the question.”

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What is the world of a robot manager made of? Part 1 – The senses of a robot manager

If we want to create a robot manager, we need to consider what its abstract world will consist of, so that the artificial manager can recognize it, register it “in its memory” and then take action in terms of managing a team, processes or a project. This is the first and also the most difficult task facing the designer of artificial managers. So here we go! Each of us, when we perceive the external world through the human five senses,

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In what company is the president already an artificial manager?

You come to work like every day, and there is a big commotion in your company. Chairs, desks and books are being carried out of the boss’s office. What is going on here? Doesn’t the director need it anymore? In fact, now his room may be completely empty, except perhaps for one chair, on which your new director will already sit…. Is this just a vision from a science-fiction movie? If you are employed by NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited, then

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Would you trust a manager who was a robot? Part 2

In a previous post, I wrote about how trust should be understood and that it is related to the uncertainty of the actions of humans, not machines. However, we colloquially use the term trust in machines and in artificial intelligence as well, which is why KPMG and the Univertsity of Queensland conduct an annual survey on people’s trust in AI. What results can be found in the latest available survey from 2021? The authors of the survey highlight four key

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Would you trust a manager who was a robot? Part 1

Imagine you walk into your boss’s room, and there behind the table sits a human-like robot. However, at first glance you can see that it is not a human, but a machine. Not only is it more powerful than you in terms of physical strength – after all, you won’t be arm-wrestling – but it has learned the project management ways of all the managers in the corporation where you work. You have to ask him to resolve a conflict

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