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Big Picture

You Have the Power to Physically Reshape Your Brain. Meditation and exercise can reshape your brain. Expect neuroplasticity (the brain’s ability to remake itself) to feature prominently in new wellness initiatives.
When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? A white paper based on a survey of machine learning experts. It’s a treasure trove of repeatable forecasts for presentations and business cases.
Think Driverless Cars are right around the corner? Not so fast sez the Economist. “It could take a decade or two before they can transport people anywhere, at any time, in any condition—and do so more reliably and safely than human drivers.”

HR’s View

HR Analytics: Are you Missing the Big Picture? Simple explanations make execution easier. Fight Fragmentation, Capture Context, and Have a Plan. Analytics are useless unless you have a feel for how they will impact decision making.
The Quant Crunch: How the Demand for Data Science Skills is Disrupting the Job Market. A joint project of IBM and Burning Glass Technologies. Put it on your desktop. You’re going to have to explain why they’re so expensive and still you can’t get any.
Seven things we’re doing wrong with HR analytics. The moral of the story? Analytics is not an extension of reporting. To the extent that your analytics funtion is delivering gussied up reports and pivot tables, it is failing.

Tutorials

The Complete Beginners Guide to Chatbots. You will need to figure out what problem you are going to solve with your bot, choose which platform your bot will live on (Facebook, Slack, etc), set up a server to run your bot from, and choose which service you will use to build your bot.
Brilliant is an $8/month subscription service that helps you learn advanced math in microbits that are driven by a quiz. Topics range from simple math or computer logic to the fundamentals of computer science. It’s a fun path to numeracy.

Quote of the Week

“There is nothing we get from Google’s [HR] lessons,” he said. “Google doesn’t make money because of its HR practices – it makes money because it has a virtual monopoly on the top talent in the search engine arena. Whichever tech company is ascendant, we think it has great HR.” – Alec Levenson, senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business

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 seems to mean 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 8 to 10 links with some explanation. The goal is to give you a way to surf the rapidly evolving field without drowning in information.

About the author

John Sumser

John Sumser is a principal analyst for HRExaminer, an independent analyst firm covering HR Technology and the intersection of people, tech, and work. John’s mix of experience over the course of his career gives him a broad and unique perspective on the industry. Like anyone trying to process a lot of information, he is two or three steps ahead in some areas and still learning about others. Sumser’s work includes deep research into the nooks and crannies of HR Technology to identify and explain rapidly evolving trends. Built on a foundation of engineering, design, and philosophy, John’s seeks to understand and advise clients on where their technology works best, for whom, and in what context. Each year, John examines the insides of hundreds of companies, their products, and ecosystems. He delivers vendor analysis by building the framework from which to deliver the critique. He is constantly connecting and making visible the front end of change. He can help you see the path of evolution and the risks on the journey. The HRExaminer is Sumser’s vehicle for understanding and explaining the inner workings of the industry. With three weekly podcasts, and written commentary, he covers emerging ideas, the state of the industry, and the executives who operate it.

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