Big Picture
- Resisting Reduction: Designing our Complex Future with Machines. A manifesto from Joi Ito, the head of MIT’s Media Lab. Ito describes some of the problems associated with applying AI to complex adaptive systems (like human organizations).
HR’s View
- The Great Decoupling. Smart essay about the relationship between capital and human capital. Human Capital provides worse returns on the dollar. HR execs need to understand the math and the point of view.
- Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries for Scarce A.I. Talent. “Typical A.I. specialists, including both Ph.D.s fresh out of school and people with less education and just a few years of experience, can be paid from $300,000 to $500,000 a year or more in salary and company stock, according to nine people who work for major tech companies or have entertained job offers from them. All of them requested anonymity because they did not want to damage their professional prospects.”
Execution
- Blockchains: How They Work and Why They’ll Change the World. Simple. Bookmark it.
- Who do you trust? How data is helping us decide. Using data to evaluate the trustworthiness of employees.
Tutorial
- Tools of a Systems Thinker. Managers who use or follow machine recommendations need to learn the skills of systems thinking.
Quote of the Week
“In order to effectively respond to the significant scientific challenges of our times, I believe we must view the world as many interconnected, complex, self-adaptive systems across scales and dimensions that are unknowable and largely inseparable from the observer and the designer. In other words, we are participants in multiple evolutionary systems with different fitness landscapes at different scales, from our microbes to our individual identities to society and our species. Individuals themselves are systems composed of systems of systems, such as the cells in our bodies that behave more like system-level designers than we do.” – Resisting Reduction: Designing our Complex Future with Machines.
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.
