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Alright, folks, gather 'round — it’s #VotingFriday #GenAI Showdown time! In one corner, we’ve got it’s potential for accelerating economic growth. In the other corner, the obstacles! The question: which obstacle is going to photobomb our progress selfies the most over the next few years? 🤖 📸 Not sure? Our expert Diederik Stadig shares insight here: https://lnkd.in/ewh_Ef5X

🌈 Bring Your Whole Self to Work! 🌈 This isn’t just a catchphrase at #ING - it’s our core belief. We are a founding partner of the 'Workplace Pride - International platform for LGBTIQ+ inclusion at Work', which actively pursues ways to raise the inclusivity standards within companies. We've been improving over 10 consecutive years and we will continue to do so over the years to come. 🏳️🌈 Join us this #Pride month as we celebrate inclusivity, equality, and the realisation of a better world! 🌟 https://lnkd.in/ewVYgRuW #PrideMatters #PrideMonth #Inclusion

🌈 Have you ever felt misunderstood or left out? 🌈 At ING, we believe that everyone deserves to be seen, heard, and valued. That's why, as allies of the LGBTQI+ community, we aim to create understanding and advocate for acceptance, extending the spirit of #PrideMonth year-round! Join us in embracing a culture where everyone thrives and takes pride in their true selves. 🤝🌟 #TogetherWeStand #PrideMatters

“To stay secure, we need to focus on what matters most. Current changes in the technology and the intensification of cyber threats force us to adapt our security strategy. So, we need to adjust, act and develop a #GenAI security strategy, an identity-first approach to security and understand our security posture/attack surface.” Our Chief Information Security Officer, Beate Zwijnenberg, shared this and more as her keynote during the Leaders in Finance Events on #CyberSecurity 2024 yesterday. She continued to highlight how #ING is progressing with cyber security in the financial sector.

We were losing all hope but then you didn't disappoint for our final poll! 👏 At this moment 41% of 400+ votes got it right this time: the thumbs-up gesture is not universally understood to mean good in fact. Bogdan Ionuț Bujniță, Eelco van Dijk, and Joenil Cofreros, MSc. indicated as much in the comments (thanks for sharing your insight 😁)! The following redacted quote from a study also elaborates this. We have all learnt a thing or two this year about cultural diversity, let's keep it going! "The thumbs-up gesture signals in North America well done; in Greece and other countries, it is equivalent to the insulting "** *****!" (Cotton, 2013)." Source: Tom Grothe, socialsci.libretexts.org

AI and supercomputers... just reading that can fill one with foreboding or excitement. Indisputably, the spectacular increases in computing speeds are playing a huge role in driving the #AIrevolution. This means that semiconductors make up a crucial part of the AI value chain, along with other innovations applied in supercomputers. Is this topic right up your street? Jan Frederik delves into the details, dive in: #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Supercomputers 

The result is in for our second poll and (perhaps unsurprisingly as the question was tricky) a whooping 88% got it wrong and 12% got the answer right, with Vladimir Berezansky hitting it on the nose in the comments 🎯 bravo! A smile isn't necessarily a positive nonverbal form of communication as explained in a study: "Ekman and Friesen (1969) coined the term cultural display rules to describe such cultural differences in facial expressions. Consider the smile: People in all cultures have the ability to smile, but cultures value and interpret smiles in different ways. In other words, the meaning behind a smile is not universal. For example, in Russian, people do not smile because it implies that you are foolish, or possibly sneaky and manipulative. Even in family photos, adults often appear with flat or scowling faces. Many Latin American cultures prefer a proud and elegant facial appearance, which does not include smiling. In Japan, smiling is a way to show respect or to hide what you are actually feeling." Source: Tom Grothe, socialsci.libretexts.org

As promised, we are back with answer of our first poll. Thank you for casting your votes. Sadly it was a near miss! According to the following study, the answer is (drum rolls please...) facial expression! 💡 The following quote elaborates: "Facial Expressions communicate an endless stream of emotions, and we make judgments about what others are feeling by assessing their faces. Our use of emoticons to communicate attitudes and emotions in electronic media testifies to the importance of this type of kinesics. It is often claimed that facial expressions – called affects displays – tend to be universal, the idea being that expressing basic emotions is an elemental, instinctive behavior common to all humans. This idea goes back to Charles Darwin (1872) who claimed all humans express emotion in the same way. This was later contradicted by anthropologists such as Margaret Mead (1975). It wasn't until the 1960s that so-called "universality studies" were conducted by Paul Ekman and others. In a series of experiments involving participants from a variety of cultures, they showed that there were six universal expressions — anger, disgust, fear, sadness, happiness, and surprise (Ekman, 1972). Later, a seventh expression, contempt, was added (Ekman & Heider, 1988). As the studies involved people from industrialized countries, who may have learned to interpret faces from mass media, other studies were conducted among tribal groups in New Guinea, which came to similar results (Ekman & Friesen, 1971). An interesting experiment conducted with blind athletes produced the same results as their sighted colleagues (Matsumoto & Willingham, 2009). Because the blind athletes could not have learned the behaviors, one can assume there is an innate capacity to display facial expressions." Source: Tom Grothe, socialsci.libretexts.org

As we come to the close to #WorldDayForCulturalDiversity, we share our final poll. 🌍 Here is 3 of 3 - how culturally aware are you (actually)?

Our #WorldDayForCulturalDiversity poll continues! 🌍 Here is 2 of 3: