Big Picture

• The new ways the rich signal their wealth, Interesting look at the subtle signals that define class and group boundaries. It’s remarkable that none of the people who are peddling corporate culture look at the group membership signifiers like clothing brands, leisure pursuits, percentage of salary invested in education, vacation destinations. On one level, corporate culture is the aggregate of employee behavior on and off the clock. What’s even more remarkable is the claim that we know how to simulate a culture. Also see HBR’s How Subtle Class Clues Can Backfire on your Resume.
• AI will require us to have new definitions of smart. The machines will beat us at pattern recognition, storage and recall of information and other traditional definitions of intelligence. They’ll never catch us at emotional nuance and the rapid digestion of complexity. Here is HBR on In the AI Age, “Being Smart” Will Mean Something Completely Different.”

HR’s View

• The Future is Emotional. Are the next wave of jobs the kinds that primarily involve emotional intelligence? Is this where upskilling should head? Is it possible to shift corporate strategy in this undervalued direction?
• If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AI. From HBR.

Execution

• How McDonald’s Does the math. McDonald’s Is Replacing 2,500 Human Cashiers With Digital Kiosks
• Talking with AI about your unconscious bias is better than you’d think. Joonko delivers frank feedback on diversity and inclusion.

Tutorial

• Every single Machine Learning course on the internet, ranked by your reviews. Fantastic way to get your team and your company up to speed. Includes a great visual model of ML.
• Google’s Rules for Designers Working w/ AI.

Quote of the Week

Companies are just beginning to discover the many different ways that AI technologies can potentially reinvent businesses. But one thing is already clear: they must invest time and money to be prepared with sufficiently automated and structured data analytics in order to take full advantage of the new technologies. Like it or not, you can’t afford to skip the basics. – If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AI
 

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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. We offer a timeless curation of the intersection of HR and the machines that serve it.