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First, thank you to those who sent condolences this week after the death of Dave's dad at age
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Megan Brown: Data Literacy
In this episode, we talk with Megan Brown, the Director of Data Science for Starbucks’ Global Center of Excellence.
Peter Sterling: Decision Evolution
In this episode, we talk with Peter Sterling, the author of What is Health. Peter caught our attention with his concise and understandable description of how evolution, by optimizing for energy efficiency, has built human brains.
Making better decisions is one way to get paid more
Making a good decision implies that we have some idea of what’s true. But we do not have infinite data inputs or processing capacity. We are limited by our lifetimes.
Caring machines vs sociopaths
Caring machines may be the only way to scale empathy across our species.
Making better decisions means banishing so-so AI
Now that more machine learning-based AI has been deployed in more places, human skills are being replaced in finer slices with new automation technologies. What has been observed in traditional blue collar work is that not all AI is good enough to increase the value of the output.
Stephen Fleming: Metacognition
In this episode, we talk with Stephen Fleming, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, about his book, Know Thyself.
Top 10 books for 2021 on human intelligence for curious AI folks
Covid gave us a chance to read—a lot! As we prepare for the holidays (and factoring in supply chain issues and shipping delays) we thought we’d share the books that have had the most influence on our ideas about the emerging human-machine community this year.
AI as a cognitive crutch
How AI could help our reasoning when it's most flawed: aka when we're subject to cognitive biases.
Help me decide v decide for me
Resolving a fundamental incompatibility with AI in human decision-making
House of Beautiful Business
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, gave a presentation at the House of Beautiful Business titled: Mind for our Minds.
There’s no universal human reaction to AI
Most decisions and most deciders are hybrids. Some machine, some human. The trick is to imagine all the ways that humans figure out ways around, over, and through the machine when what they really want is to make the decision themselves even if it means sacrificing accuracy.
Jevin West: Making Sense of Data
In this episode, we talk with Jevin West, assistant professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, co-founder of the DataLab, director of the Center for an Informed Public and co-author of the acclaimed book, Calling Bullshit.