Big Picture
- Cultural maverick Kevin Kelly offers The Myth of a Superhuman AI. He dispels the major assumptions underlying the future scenario in which “computerized AIs will become so much smarter than us that they will take all our jobs and resources.”
- In Why Companies are not Startups, management guru Steve Blank takes a look at the differences between the two. Simply, startups are designed to innovate, companies to execute. The culture for one is a disaster for the other.
- Over half of HR managers expect AI to be a part of their jobs within five years.
AI in the Field
- Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs). Before an AI is useful, it has to be trained. Here are five stories about the decisions and execution details.
- New algorithms are able to diagnose disease as accurately as expert physicians. So sez MIT in Deep Learning Is a Black Box, but Health Care Won’t Mind.
- From the BBC, the next generation of work won’t be made up of jobs and professions. Challenges and problems will be the heart of work. How, exactly, does HR cope?
- Machine Learning Trends in HR. Nate Vickery notices that the best HR machine learning tools will require human oversight.
Tutorial
- How Machine Learning Works (from the Economist). 7 minutes
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.