Big Picture
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI. A sober look at the realities of Artificial intelligence. Put this on your list.
- Google’s comment-ranking system will be a hit with the alt-right. Try to ignore the inflammatory headline. This article is about exactly how hard it is to understand and bound online behavior. It matters as you turn employee communications over to machines.
HR’s View
- Will Your Job Be Done By A Machine? Nice, simple visualization.
- Organizations are Marketplaces. The potential of each employee to shape and impact the organization-at-large is growing: every day is more comparable to that any given executive trying to extort change by fear.
Execution
- Turns Out Algorithms are Racist. More on the difficulty of eliminating bias from technology.
- Advances in AI are used to spot signs of sexuality. Proof that our definitions of privacy are really out of date.
Tutorial
- Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction: A Systematic Approach to Interactive Visualization. As the pile of data we have to deal with grows ever larger, we need tools to make sense of what we are doing. This simple guide lays out the basic parameters for building interactive visualizations of data.
Quote of the Week
” The term “AI” refers to a set of related fields that compose it: machine learning, in which computers are fed information to gradually learn to recognize and process it in increasingly complex ways; natural language processing, which lets software recognize the varied, shifting ways in which humans might express ideas; image recognition, which learns to “see” and understand images; and reasoning, in which computers learn to “think.” Obviously, our phones are not sentient little beings in our pockets. But many apps use parts of artificial intelligence to do things like recognize faces or images, react to context such as adding one’s location to messages, or understanding commands we give with our voice. On the most basic level AI technologies, operate like “if this, then that” statements—if x is greater than 100, then sound an alarm—only vastly more complicated. “
About
Curate means a variety of things: from the work of vicar entrusted with the care of souls to that of an exhibit designer responsible for clarity and meaning. At the core, it means something about the importance of empathy in organization. HRIntelligencer is an update on the comings and goings in the Human Resource experiment with Artificial Intelligence, Digital Employees, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Big Data and all of that stuff. We present a few critical links with some explanation. The goal is to give you a way to surf the rapidly evolving field without drowning in information. We offer a timeless curation of the intersection of HR and the machines that serve it. We curate the emergence of Machine Led Decision Making in HR.
