Can a Big Data Program Be Society’s Crystal Ball?
Can a program with enough data on all of us predict our future?Even fans admit that, if the program works, bad actors can use it just as easily as New Scientist’s virtuecrats.
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The Golden Age of the Web?—A Dissent
What happened to the collaborative culture, decentralized markets, and wisdom of crowds that bestsellers prophesied fifteen years ago?Remembering the prophecies for the web in the halcyon days of ten or (better) fifteen years ago is strangely painful and disorienting, like a hangover, largely because we so silently abandoned its ideals.
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Bingecast: Business Intelligence and AI Accounting
Robert J. Marks and Jeremiah Marks talk about business intelligence and AI accounting. Business intelligence affects you daily from advertising and solicitation to how much you pay for tickets to watch the Dallas cowboys. How do companies use business intelligence? Technology has almost entirely replaced the travel agent and many brick and mortar stores. Could high tech tools like robots Read More ›
The US 2016 Election: Why Big Data Failed
Economics professor Gary Smith sheds light on the surprise resultSome of the stuff that made a difference, they couldn’t put in a computer. Some people say, if you can’t measure it, it doesn’t count but sometimes the things that count can’t be measured.
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Big Data Can Lie: Simpson’s Paradox
Simpson’s Paradox illustrates the importance of human interpretation of the results of data miningSimpson’s Paradox illustrates the need for seasoned human experts in the loop to examine and query the results from Big Data. Could AI be written to perform this operation? Those who say yes are appealing to an algorithm-of-the-gaps.
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Your Phone Knows Everything Now
And in a world where no data is anonymous, yours may be sold to the highest bidder
1: IBM’s Watson Is NOT Our New Computer Overlord
AI help, not hype: It won at Jeopardy (with specially chosen “softball” questions) but is not the hoped-for aid to cancer specialists
Can Big Data Beat the Humans Who Compile It?
A computer pioneer bets no: Human intelligence augmented by artificial intelligence will always beat artificial intelligence alone. Is he right?
Study Shows Eating Raisins Causes Plantar Warts
Sure. Because, if you torture a Big Data enough, it will confess to anything
Can Big Data Help Make Your Book a Best Seller?
It’s more likely to help you picture your odds more clearly and clarify your goals
Quantity vs Quality: Can AI Help Scientists Produce Better Papers?
What happens when scientists simply can't read all their peers' papers and still find time for original research?
What is Business Intelligence?
Discussing how Artificial Intelligence Has Changed the Opera with Jeremiah MarksBusiness intelligence affects you daily; from advertising and solicitation to how much you pay for tickets to watch the Dallas Cowboys. Jeremiah Marks talks about what business intelligence is and how it changes the way we approach our customers. Show Notes
Silicon Valley grew old before it grew up
By April of this year, 100 employees were complaining about the Google groupthink