The article argues that hiring more humanists, who are trained in literature, philosophy, ethics, classics, history, culture, language, linguistics, and writing, can lead to more effective AI and data science. Data humanists are able to mix data fluency with these humanist skills and bring a different perspective to data science. They tend to ask what's missing, embrace ambiguity and seek blurry boundaries and interpretation, which can lead to more insights and understanding of the data.

Our healthcare system is not working when 62% of all bankruptcies in the united states are due to medical expenses.Most medical debtors were well educated, owned homes and had middle class occupations. Medicare for all will address and solve this problem. We need structural change

All entrepreneurs and marketers should pay attention to this message. Simon breaks down the marketing and branding strategy into 3 approaches - Why, How and What. He offers real world examples on the power of why. In essence when you answer the why question you are including your audience in your vision.

Priti Patel, British home secretary has approved the extradition of Julian Assange. This is major news for press freedom and respects the attention of anyone who believes in the first amendment, yet major US and UK publication have either not carried this or buried it deep in their website

Article points out that curation is not an end to journalism as journalist have been curating to perform their jobs, but curation has now empowered citizen journalist to play the role of media!

I suggest that algorithms will never replace a human editor. Algorithms is a procedure for solving problems. A curator is a human operator that adds a set of parameters machines can never replace, at least not for the foreseeable future. This post provides the answers.

Journalist can not rely on algorithms alone to break the "filter bubble". Take a look at 7 traits that makes humans superior to machines. Journalist as curators of news, offer a distinct advantage over machine algorithms.

Organizations have an explosion of content similar to consumers. Managing access to this information requires dedicated resource. This article calls this person a community manager. Someone who curates information with specific goals in mind for the organization. We have had great success in this area with our tools.

This is a presentation on different forms of indexing and their usefulness. As a curator, you are always concerned with proper indexing in order to improve findability of your information. It is useful to become familiar with the concepts of library science!

This talk is a great example of how famous people can be wrong about something so basic as whether machines can replace the human mind. Ray Kurzweil is a NYTimes best seller and author of singularity. But his understanding of the human mind does not account for the mystery of the universe and the question is how can you program and mimic something you don't understand.

According to the statistics shared in this post, most people simply look at headlines and read the news summary. Using our curation tools you now have the power to influence people with your headlines and summaries!

Patients are looking for trusted sources to make sense of medical information. Healthcare professionals therefore should use curated content to share their views on emerging viewpoints, studies and resources to become a trusted source for their community and up their content output.

Jeff Bezos says people will not pay for content, they will buy a package. In an address to his employees, Jeff bezos' said that in the future people will pay for a package and not a story. He said that as more content becomes digitized, the package is from a wide variety of sources in a range of media. Our curation tools make that possible.

This study is an excellent testimonial to the need of curation to deal with information overflow. Study has found that it takes between 5 to 25 minutes for users to find documents and information they need to perform their jobs. With exponential growth in content production, the findings in this article are just as relevant today as the day they were published.

Worker take up to 8 searches to find the right information, that is 1.8 hours a day and 9.3 hours a week. Our KBucket solution lets users collaborate and curate information they need to do their work, saving significant time for both individuals and organizations.

We are getting a lot wrong about the web these days. We confuse what people have clicked on for what they’ve read. We mistake sharing for reading. We race towards new trends like native advertising without fixing what was wrong with the old ones and make the same mistakes all over again.

Algorithms used by tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon are coming under scrutiny for their cultural biases. Researchers are concerned that people may never see certain articles or content because algorithms don't think it's relevant to them. The algorithms can become a "racism accelerator" by showing certain ads more frequently based on what gets clicked the most. There is a need for a third-party watchdog to ensure that proprietary algorithms meet certain standards.

John Searle is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His Talk at Google is focused on the philosophy of mind and whether machines can ever be conscious. This is an excellent talk to really understand why AI will never replace human consciousness.

Noam Chomsky discusses the computability of the mind and the possibility of emulating it on other substrates such as silicon. He suggests that the mind is organized matter, and while we don't fully understand how it works, there is no physical reason to believe that the particular components of that organized matter are critical for its operation. Chomsky also discusses the emerging notion that many of our conscious decisions are actually made pre-consciously, with parts of our brain organizing actions before we become conscious of making decisions. He suggests that much of the mystery of what the "puppeteer" is doing is likely preconscious, and that investigating these topics could reveal more about the mechanisms involved in consciousness. Chomsky also touches on the different types of AI and quotes Turing who said that the question of can machines thing is too meaningless to answer!

Learn about swipe files for capturing ideas that help you be a better marketer and copywriter. This post offers some ideas on what you can store in a swipe file and why it's important. The landing page for this post is my swipe file!

Marketers are under pressure to create more content, faster. This post offers some sobering statistics on time spent creating content vs the actual demands of the market. Curation plus chatbots can help you reduce your production time and guide your audience to the right content.

As a curator, and a company that has been selling curation services, I know through experience that organizational curation is highly effective, and needs planning and coordination. This article offers excellent steps to make your curation endeavor successful.

Curation is a valuable activity for individuals and organizations as it helps people understand and learn about a subject in depth, saves time by presenting vetted information, helps to uncover new resources, promotes critical thinking, and is a never-ending process of questioning, participation, and improvement. Additionally, curation helps to manage the overabundance of information available on the internet and puts the individual in control of their own learning journey. Curation also serves as a social good by preserving quality information and promoting a comprehensive view of a subject.

We know that online search has been broken for a while with the ever increasing explosion of content. Content curation, with a conversational chat interface can solve many of the issues facing search today!

Propaganda and manufacturing consent has been perfected to an art form. I highly recommend that you install glasp and take a look at my notes on this page to learn about my point of view and add your own

When interacting with chatbots our brains believe we are talking to a human. This phenomena is known as anthropomorphism and such a process has profound psychological ramifications. Read about the psychology of chatbots, its pros and cons!

If we don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat it. The rise of populist around the world is not new. Every time life gets tough, populist strong men take advantage of people's vulnerabilities for their own short sighted gains! People with extreme views need to be reminded of the consequence of their beliefs. This post was written before Trump was elected and much of it is proven true by this point of Trump's presidency

Brian Clark founder and CEO of Copyblogger, states that in the age of fake news, content curation by credible sources offers a trusted editorial source. A chatbot UI interface makes your entire library accessible to your readers.

Learn the history of petrodollars, the term created in 1973 when the Nixon administration made a pact to protect the Saudi regime in return for making the dollar the trading currency for all oil trades worldwide. Any regime who has tried to divert from this path has fallen!

The author is a professional conversational chat dialog designer. In this post he talks about the importance of a CMS for managing your chatbot responses. Managing a large number of posts requires a CMS to help you visualize your content.

Chatbots offer measurable advantages to customer support. Customers don't like to wait and providing quick and direct answers to client needs will help you retain and grow your customer base. Chatbots eliminate wait time and save you 30% on support costs according to this study.

Successful sales teams are using a social selling approach to engage with potential customers through the provision of helpful content and information. Curating and sharing insightful content is a key way to engage people online and to build relationships and trust. To stay updated and to keep customers updated, sales professionals need to find, review, and curate content from a wide range of external sources. Sharing content from a range of sources, based on what's interesting to the audience, and showing independence and a wider understanding of the sector are crucial to building trust and authority.

Managing a content library like a librarian is essential for making it useful. Librarians decide what's worth storing based on a company's mission, create vocabularies and subject taxonomies, and institute expiration dates for each asset class. Metadata should mirror the content strategy. Managing a content library like a librarian is intense, but it pays off.

This post makes a compelling case for curated newsletters with examples of some thought leaders who use a combination of free and paid newsletters to share news content with their readers. With our solution you can not only build a curated newsletter from your content, but also build a conversational chatbot as a mobile app with the same content.

The article was curated from the Google Intranet blog where they discuss the challenges of finding relevant content on the intranet in the digital workplace, and how content curation can help. The article cites examples from Google, which is developing best practices for more inclusive and constant collaboration, including in its content development process. The article also emphasizes the importance of people, not technology, in the success of content curation. So if Google is using humans to manage access to information, don't you think you should be doing the same! Our curation tools are designed for collaboration and discovery of related content.

Context is a concept in Bot design that helps you with directing users to the right answers quickly by assigning a context to the "intent" of your question. Learn the concept behind context for bot design from this great post

The theme of this post is, Create once publish everywhere. Good Chatbots need content and a good well structured CMS platform is a great source for your Chatbots content. CMS platforms offer a structurally consistent source that can be programmatically accessed to deliver fresh content to your chatbot.

The American Middle class was created by FDR post world war II by giving power to the workers and income tax rates of 70% or more on wealthy individuals and high taxes on corporate profits. Despite this policy median income doubled in the 3 decades after world war II. Protecting the middle class works for the economy and the country.

The trend for sticky chatbots is to engage people in a conversation. But how do you get started and what should you pay attention to? This post provides some great insights about strategy and goal setting to make it all work. Curating, commenting and categorizing your content will help you with your process.

Chatbots will transform the way governments will support their citizens by helping them find information to their questions faster, help them submit forms, let them pay bills, get support in their native language and more. The post links to some examples of these solutions.

Great post with excellent examples of the types of bots used to fool people into believing that fake profiles are real. Chatbots are different than these automated bots, it is important that consumers know the difference.

Some excellent tips on note taking. What stands out to me is the advice that highlighting is not enough and you need to take notes so you can remember your thought process. Great for learning, but also great for sharing. Get glasp.co and see my notes on the page.