Because various areas of the brain are involved in music appreciation, our subjective experience of music depends on intensity of interconnections between those different brain regions—and this intensity could be reliably measured with simple EEG scanner.
Chipotle’s future hinges less on hourly audits or triple-washed lettuce or rewards programs than a reimagining of what Food With Integrity means for the next 20 years. Can a leadership team helmed by three college buddies make that transition? What about a board of directors with a 17-year median tenure? "Whether or not the food-safety issues happened, this is a company where the skills that got them here are not the same skills they need to get to the next place."
Africa is the continent most interested in Hillary Clinton, while residents of Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) do the bulk of Googling on Donald Trump. Sweden is searching Clinton and foreign policy far more than Canada.
Tech giant is working on a laptop that will be able to carry any alphabet, special commands and symbols . The new keyboards will be a standard feature on MacBook laptops, and will be able to display any alphabet, along with an unlimited number of special commands and emojis.
26 states or more allow police agencies to "run or request searches" against their databases or driver's licenses and ID photos. This equates to "roughly one in two American adults has their photos searched this way.
2016 was billed as a banner year for virtual reality, but even some of its biggest boosters admit that it’s been a tough sell. It needs to find some more compelling use cases that people find valuable. Until that happens, sales are likely to remain slow.
Automatic systems accommodate incompetence by being easy to operate and by automatically correcting mistakes. An inexpert operator can function for a long time before his lack of skill becomes apparent. Second, even if operators are expert, automatic systems erode their skills by removing the need for practice. Third, automatic systems tend to fail in unusual situations requiring a skilful response. A more capable and reliable automatic system makes the situation worse.
"When you are just out college, there's a lot of algorithms, and data structures and fast-thinking on a whiteboard, like you do in school. As opposed to real software engineering. In 20 years, I've never used a whiteboard. I use my computer. But in job interviews they do it all the time." Some programmers believe the company has designed its tough recruitment process to heavily favor those fresh from school with less real-world experience.
Combining location data with the already extensive information that Amazon has on individuals’ shopping and browsing history would be potentially beneficial to both the company and its customers, who would presumably get better recommendations—but it would be a particularly invasive way to gather data on online shoppers, if it didn’t come with a clear and easy way to opt out.
Most employers believe technology has made hiring harder. Approximately 85% of job descriptions are posted online with each job yielding hundreds of digital applications. Sanity depends on keyword-based filters that yield candidate pools that are workable, albeit imprecise. For any ATS-filtered candidate pool there are as many false positives + false negatives.
Morality can’t possibly demand that we sacrifice hard-earned dollars for strangers. Could morality really require that (we) do more? Philosophers refer to versions of this concern as the ‘demandingness objection’. To justify a less demanding theory, these objectors need to explain why it is sometimes permissible not to do the best thing.
Cities could use sensor data for conducting traffic studies, pushing out real-time public bus alerts, increasing parking space occupancy, metering loading times to prevent congestion, and enhancing pedestrian safety. Commercial applications for sensor data: How many cars drive by a billboard? How many people walk by a storefront per day? How many of those people have dogs?
From deciding where to eat, to booking your next hair appointment, to buying movie tickets at the local theatre, Facebook wants to eventually control, or be involved with, every decision you make when it comes to local commerce.
“Competition policy, that’s the thing they’re most scared of. If a Microsoft-style case was brought against any of these companies, it could totally change their business prospects. It could result in radical changes to the scale and structure of their corporations
Dual promises exist in the current world of Big Data, where smart money armed with big data continually searches for opportunities to exploit dumb money—increasingly, individuals, swing voters, and even democracy itself. As long as the public trusts in the objectivity of statistical models, and as long as they remain intimidated by them, such opportunities will likely continue.
Airbnb started as a simple matching platform for hosts and guests, but now is preparing to expand beyond that. "Going forward, we’re really exploring the full boundaries of everything that someone needs, and also how can we reinvent that experience."
Through a lifetime of experience with physical goods, most of us understand intuitively what it means to buy things and to own them. Words like own and buy prime consumers to rely on these familiar concepts of personal property to understand their rights in digital purchases. But those engrained consumer expectations are a far less reliable guide for digital goods.
New technology sends passcodes through the human body. The technology uses touchpads and fingerprint readers to create signals that travel through skin—and, unlike wireless broadcasts, the “on-body” transmissions can’t be intercepted over the air. (But) devices touching a body conducting a charge can read the signal, raising the possibility that malware on a smartwatch could be used to eavesdrop on a passcode as it moves from limb to limb.
Last month the company launched a hotel brand — Scion — that will offer the Trump experience minus the Trump moniker. A champion brand requires authenticity and attachment to something bigger. “He has alignment with his core followers on the political trail, but is he aligned with his core customers? As an $800-a-night hotelier, I don’t think he is.”
Social-media reinforce(s) “us versus them” narratives, exposes vulnerable people to virulent ideologies, and inflames hatreds. (It) creates groundswells of popular opinion impossible to control. By democratizing the spread of information and erasing boundaries of time and distance, (it) has transformed war to an extent not seen since the telegraph. The age of social media should be an age of peace and understanding. The same was once said of the telegraph.
The Krebs attack wasn’t executed by conventional computers, but rather by Internet of Things (IoT) devices – including innocuous digital video recorders and security cameras. The devices are not designed with security as a key focus; convenience and cost are the main considerations.
Once-dependable indicators traders relied on for decades to send out warnings are no longer up to the task. The rise of passive investing has added another layer of complexity to how the stock market operates. The pulse of market fear measuring the implied volatility of the S&P 500, is becoming more erratic because of the proliferation of exchange-traded products. "With all the changes, traditional indicators of financial stress aren’t working in the ways they used to."
People see this technology and presume that it is safe, but in the end, it all just comes down to math. There is nothing safer about [facial recognition], except that it rules out the challenges of password management. In 2014 and 2015, hackers stole 5.6 million fingerprints of current and former federal employees. Federal experts believe that, as of now, the ability to misuse fingerprint data is limited but this probability could change over time as technology evolves.
Hilton got its hiring cycle down to 4.5 days, almost 20 days shorter than the average interview process. Cigna has cut travel expenses for recruiters from $1 million a year, in some cases, to under $100,000.Candidates will generally say, 'I would have preferred an in-person interview to this,' but that's not the right comparison. The alternative is no interview at all.
But while energy demand would fall, demand for electricity would double by 2060, requiring greater infrastructure investment in smart systems. Solar and wind accounted for 4% of power generation in 2014 but could supply up to 39% by 2060. Hydroelectric and nuclear are also expected to grow. But fossil fuels will remain the number one source of energy, having fallen just 5% since 1970 from 86% of energy supply to 81% in 2014.
A.I. is also the new arena of high-stakes competition in computing, fueled by big data and innovations in software algorithms.The market — defined as A.I.-related hardware, software and services — will surge from $8 billion this year to $47 billion by 2020. (And) by 2020, 60 percent of A.I. applications will run on the platform of four companies: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM.
A fifth of staff at the biggest consultancies leave every year. In the coming decade, that source will probably bulge with former white-collar staff looking to fill longer working lives, and younger ones aspiring to a variegated career. Like gig economy workers in less well-paid jobs the main attraction of independent consulting is flexibility. But that is offset by one of its principal disadvantages: volatility. Financial security, combined with income predictability.
The vast majority of women—some 80 percent of them—said success in the industry is not primarily based on competence, but men were split down the middle: Fifty percent said it was a meritocracy; 50 percent said it wasn’t.
On the 2030 battlescape, soldiers will command drones via a linked-up “warrior suit” featuring “integrated displays that aggregate a common operating picture, provides intelligence updates, and integrates indirect and direct fire weapons systems.” Read that to mean firing for effect from your face. Armed ground units become increasingly autonomous as unmanned combat vehicles with advanced payloads. "It’s one of the reasons we need an open architecture.”
The Intersect logged every story that trended across four accounts during the workdays from Aug. 31 to Sept. 22. Five stories were indisputably fake and three were profoundly inaccurate. News releases, blog posts from sites such as Medium and links to online stores such as iTunes regularly trended. “I’m not surprised how many fake stories have trended. It was beyond predictable by anyone who spent time with the functionality of the product, not just the code.”
The Walmart experiment shows pretty clearly that paying people better improves both the work force and the shoppers’ experience. Spending at the stores by employees has risen — offering a possible metaphor for what those efficiency-wage economists argue might happen across the economy, if wages were to climb.
"People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world."
Too many big data projects have been poorly built, and lack return on investment - so companies are spending their money on other priorities. 48 per cent of companies invested in big data in 2016, up three percent from 2015. But the proportion who plan to invest in big data within the next two years fell from 31 to 25 per cent in 2016.
Researchers concluded that the drive to reduce the very uncertainty upon which creative ideas appear to thrive resulted in feelings of potential failure and social rejection. Not only are creative ideas dismissed, but the people who come up with them are less likely to be promoted, recognized as leaders, or deemed to be reliable teammates.
Momentum can mint money in Silicon Valley, but you have to sustain it. The fickle gods of Silicon Valley will turn if the company can’t sustain its growth story. Once again Silicon Valley’s overreliance on momentum creates an unrealistic proxy for valuation. Snap will reap billions as a result, while Twitter will struggle to salvage what it can from what was once a valuation of more than $40 billion.
A set of four brain implants -- chips half the size of a dress shirt button -- have allowed a 30-year-old man to not only control a robot arm but also feel sensations from the individual fingers of the arm.
Between 2004 and 2009, wind power grew by nearly 40 percent in the U.S. Yet wind power only accounts for 4 percent of the electricity generated in the country. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the profession of wind turbine technician as the fastest growing in the next decade
Total employment at computer and electronic firms in the U.S. sank to 1.03 million in 2016 from 1.87 million in 2001. (And) as of 2014, employee compensation in computer and electronic-parts making was equal to 49% of the value of the industry’s output, down from 79% in 1999. The five largest U.S.-based tech companies—Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Facebook and Oracle are worth $1.8 trillion today. That is 80% more than the five largest tech companies in 2000. Today’s five giants have 22% fewer workers than their predecessors
AI systems limited ability to represent complex relationships between data or variables has prevented them from conquering tasks that require logic and reasoning. DeepMind’s AI is a signal that neural networks are advancing beyond mere pattern recognition to human-like tasks such as reasoning.
Apple's Siri focuses more on tasks like placing phone calls, sending texts, and finding places rather than "long tail" questions, which aren't as popular with iPhone and iPad users.
Accordingly, such questions aren't popular anymore because people "just give up" on asking Siri these types of things due to failed responses.
Retailers such as Macy's, Target and Kohl's said they plan to hire fewer temporary workers or to keep seasonal employment levels little changed this holiday season. More than 14,000 seasonal positions were transitioned to regular, full-time roles after the holidays last year, and the company expects to increase that number this year
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As a Partner and Co-Founder of Predictiv and PredictivAsia, Jon specializes in management performance and organizational effectiveness for both domestic and international clients. He is an editor and author whose works include Invisible Advantage: How Intangilbles are Driving Business Performance.
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