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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · 4d

What happens when the technologies of creative professionals get "democratized"?

Interestingly, the all-infusing-AI leads to even more relevance of "humanness" & authentic voice in our context, the content marketing agency industry.

Check our new paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · 29d

I see AI-generated text everywhere in academic writing. And it's making me a bit sad.

It feels like all the argumentation is homogenized, and stylistically represents a consulting report (McKinsey style), with a lot of empty strawman arguments and other logical/intellectual blunders.

#GenerativeAI

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Sep 8

The related special issue editorial in Organization & Environment:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Moving Beyond Circular Utopia and Paralysis: Accelerating Business Transformations Towards the Circular Economy - Nancy Bocken, Jonatan Pinkse, Paavo Ritala, Nicole Darnall, 2025

The circular economy constitutes a paradigm shift which has proven to be both engaging and unrealistic. While scholars and practitioners have started to advocat...

journals.sagepub.com

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Sep 8

@jonatanpinkse.bsky.social summarized the insights of our recent special issue in the Conversation Article.

"The hard truth about the circular economy - Real change will need more than refillable bottles"

#CircularEconomy #Transformation

theconversation.com/the-hard-tru...

The hard truth about the circular economy – real change will take more than refillable bottles

It’s fine if steps towards circularity are small – but progress must be consistent.

theconversation.com

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Sep 8

Suomen akatemia lähetti nyt järjestyksessään 14 "ei myöntöä" päätöksen.

Jatketaan harjoituksia, vaikka välillä toivo rakoilee.

#proffahommat #tiedetaivas #pettymyksenvuosikello

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thanks - indeed related, and very interesting also! I will take a look at these 👀👍

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ps. Ours does not relate to academia, but overall thinking about AI in the field of management & organization.

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Sep 6

Very nicely elaborated critique! I will read this with interest.

Btw, you might be interested in our recent paper that has a little bit the same flavor. We problematize many assumptions that overblow AI expectations, and call for more "social science of AI".

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Rethinking How We Theorize AI in Organization and Management: A Problematizing Review of Rationality and Anthropomorphism

Artificial intelligence (AI) has long held the promise of imitating, replacing, or even surpassing human intelligence. Now that the abilities of AI systems have started to approach this initial aspir...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Sep 2

That is interesting / disappointing to hear... Like many others, I was expecting this to be a killer use case already in early 2023. I wonder when they get it right 👀

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today, we started an "old school" master-level course on Sustainable Strategy.

No AI. Just conversational lectures, a flipped classroom, a final panel with industry practitioners, and an old-fashioned exam.

I wonder how the students will like it... So far they looked happy after the first lecture!

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Aug 28

Why do (artificial) neural networks resemble neural networks?

I guess... we are all meaning-making "machines", wherein what we know and perceive affects the next thing we say :)

Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Aug 28

We really have not made a lot of progress on explaining the core deep mystery of LLMs:

How does a model using matrix multiplication to predict the next word manage to simulate human thought well enough to do all the very human-like things it does? And what does that mean about us and our thinking?

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Aug 28

We really have not made a lot of progress on explaining the core deep mystery of LLMs:

How does a model using matrix multiplication to predict the next word manage to simulate human thought well enough to do all the very human-like things it does? And what does that mean about us and our thinking?

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks for sharing! I was looking for some clear evidence of this effect and this one is interesting...

At the same time, "digital natives" could be expected to actually have the skills needed to work WITH AI. Perhaps that demand will show elsewhere.

Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · Aug 26

New research from Stanford shows that generative AI is already making it harder for young people to find jobs.

- In jobs with high exposure to automation by AI, early-career workers have experienced a 13% relative decline in employment. Jobs with lower exposure to automation are unaffected.

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Aug 24

I have not followed how the action has been developing here. But I saw that the usage numbers are rising steadily (from 30M early this year to 38M now), so I was curious to see what's up.

I wonder if one could "teach the algorithm" here to surface quality conversations. Works quite well in LN...

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Aug 24

Trying to exit my Bluesky-slumber with a research-related post :)

Here is a link to the study I am most excited and proud of this year.

There are expectations for rationality & human-likeness in the AI field. Is that a problem? See the paper to find out :)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rethinking How We Theorize AI in Organization and Management: A Problematizing Review of Rationality and Anthropomorphism

Artificial intelligence (AI) has long held the promise of imitating, replacing, or even surpassing human intelligence. Now that the abilities of AI systems have started to approach this initial aspir...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Aug 24

I have given up on Twitter/X... 🤷

I wonder if the discussion could move here over time...?

Well, at least LinkedIn has a lot of good action these days!

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Paavo Ritala @paavoritala.bsky.social · Aug 20

I haven't logged in to Bluesky in a long while...

How is the action here? Do we already have the new Twitter up and running? 👀

I miss the good short-form conversations. LinkedIn is great nowadays, but I would hesitate to write one-sentence ideas there. Twitter was great for that.

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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · Oct 30

Triple-presence for LUT Business School on Bluesky, now that @paavoritala.bsky.social and @kirsisalonen.bsky.social are here! Hoping to welcome more colleagues very soon 💪

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