Samuel Driessen

Director Sunny Hills. Interests: digital strategy, digital transformation, digital workplace, customer & employee experience, ecommerce.

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

Here's an AI hype case study. The paper "The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI" has been making the rounds based on the claim that 40% of US adults are using generative AI. But that includes even someone who asked ChatGPT to write a limerick or something once in the last month. Buried in the paper is the fact that only 0.5% – 3.5% of work hours involved generative AI assistance, translating to 0.125 – 0.875 percentage point increase in labor productivity.

Compared to what AI boosters were predicting after ChatGPT was released, this is a glacial pace of adoption.

The paper leaves these important measurements out of the abstract, instead emphasizing much less informative once-a-week / once-a-month numbers. It also has a misleading comparison to the pace of PC adoption (20% of people using the PC 3 years after introduction). If someone spent thousands of dollars on a PC, of course they weren't just using it once a month. If we assume that people spent at least an hour a day using their PCs, generative AI adoption is roughly an order of magnitude slower than PC adoption.
https://t.co/XLgF7Awp2v

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I’m equal parts blown away by what @SpaceX accomplished this morning but also with THIS LIVE 4K PRODUCTION the Everyday Astronaut / @considercosmos team produced! These shots live… unbelievable 🤯 just wait till we get our slow mo compilation up 👀 #starship #flight5 #IFT5

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

A masterclass on conflict resolution by Steve Jobs

[Guy Van Leemput @gvanleemput]

1 month to go to the 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 on Sep 12th in Brussels!

Central theme: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔I

More info and tickets: https://t.co/BhjwlCTrL0

[Samuel Driessen @driessen]

@Delta We’re getting them one suitcase at a time… thankful we have 4 of the 5 but why so inefficient? Please send the last one to Phili instead of NYC. See address in DM (to which I’m getting no response).

[Samuel Driessen @driessen]

Hey @Delta what’s up with my baggage at JFK? It’s just sitting there for 2 days without an update. Please bring it to my hotel. Thanks.

[Peter Hooijmeijer @PeterHooij]

Deze avond tegenover Zaltbommel @BuienRadarNL @weermanreinier @helgavanleur @NoodweerBenelux @weeronline @Weerplaza @ADnl @NOS

[Han ten Broeke @HanTenBroeke]

Maar wat een armoede dat de belangrijkste westerse democratie slechts deze twee kandidaten naar voren kan schuiven:

[Samuel Driessen @driessen]

Al tijd genomen om mee te doen aan onze Evolve #Benchmark over interne digitale platformen? Zo ja, heel fijn en hartelijk dank! 🙏🏼 Zo nee, 'no worries', je hebt nog ongeveer een week de tijd! Meer info en ook de link naar de survey vind je hieronder. 👇🏼
https://t.co/toHCIuI32O

[Samuel Driessen @driessen]

@ftheunissen3 Prachtig! Zoveel verschillende beesten... Dit is een samenvatting van hoeveel uur (ongeveer)?

[Samuel Driessen @driessen]

“Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their valor, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.”

[Samuel Driessen @driessen]

“Why? Why did you do it? … We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief; it was loyalty and love.”

President Reagan's Address at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, June 6, 1984 https://t.co/DE3H9Ghsva #dday

[Samuel Driessen @driessen]

… “Here, in this place where the West held together, let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. Let our actions say to them the words for which Matthew Ridgway listened: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.”” …

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Special moment for this WWII Veteran visiting Utah Beach (Normandy) for D-Day’s 80th Anniversary 🙏🏼

We salute you sir and thank you for your service 🫡🇺🇸

[Howard Mortman @HowardMortman]

"These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. These are the heroes who helped end a war."

- Pres. Reagan 40th D-Day anniv. speech June 6, 1984, Normandy

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

"Of the 130 lads in my company, only 19 of us made it home. In those desperate battles they gave their lives for the peace we enjoy today." 🕊️

#DDay80

[Ruben van der Rhee @RubenRhee]

Voormalig PM Theresa May gaf vanmiddag in het Britse parlement haar afscheidsspeech met een indringende, maar ook inspirerende boodschap:

[Samuel Driessen @driessen]

Ending SocialNow with a laugh: how to guarantee your DWP program fails… - ⁦@sharonodea⁩ #socialnow

[Samuel Driessen @driessen]

We’re heading to the end of SocialNow. Now: How to make sense of your digital workplace landscape - ⁦@SuzieRobinson42⁩ #socialnow

[Samuel Driessen @driessen]

@JenniferSertl @CelineSchill Thanks, Jennifer! 😊 Agree, there's so much good knowledge sharing going on! #socialnow