S4.E3. Piotr Jegier. Your Data Is Not Going To Take Decisions For You.

Is Big Data able to take decisions for us, humans? In this episode, we talk to the Big Data expert from nPowered, Piotr Jegier about the traps that many of us will encounter as we start to rely more any more on data. We dive into the topic of cognitive biases and try to understand in what domains humans still can't be replaced by AI.

IMPORTANT LINKS

nPowered - what we do

Piotr's twitter

Flat Earthers' documentary - BEHIND THE CURVE | Official HD Trailer (2018) | DOCUMENTARY | Film Threat Trailers (YT)

Things that correlate, but that does not really mean anything (Spurious Correlations by Tyler Vigen)

The software that helps judges make bail decisions, which does not like black people

John Cleese on Creativity, including open vs. closed mode (YT)

Modern portfolio theory, ie. making sure your many mistakes of forecasting compensate each other (Wikipedia)

Traveling Wilburys, the supergroup and the history behind their name

An article on The Butterfly Effect and Edward Lorenz's contribution to the Chaos Theory

On the often-discussed death of strategy in business in these turbulent times - IMD: Strategy is dead? Long live strategic thinking!. Diagnostics, alternatives and choice By Emeritus Professor Paul Strebel

An interesting article on what you might make when you do strategy, includes the strategy statement and the strategic sweet spot: - Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad

Comments by the CEO of T-Mobile Poland on "turning the tanker around"

Ethics and addiction in tech product design: How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist, by Tristan Harris

What is the Turing Test? (a short video from Cnet on YT)

On the General AI and the control problem (YT) - Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris (TED)

Confirmation Bias - a good intro by Shahram Heshmat Ph.D. on Psychology Today

A Vox article outlining the work of Dan Kahan on how the (politically) motivated reasoning makes us stupid, and how scientific curiosity can counteract this effect

A place where you can learn more on Open Science movement and pre-register your research hypotheses - Center for Open Science - preregister your hypotheses

AI Control Problem (Wikipedia)

An episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, "The Destroyer of Worlds" on the difficult and risky early years of the nuclear cold war on Earth

A selection of 10 particularly non-obvious "For Dummies" books

An inspiring introduction and overview of Getting Things Done method (and book) by its creator, David Allen, on Google Tech Talks

An accessible and irreverent discussion of the Extended Mind article by Andy Clark and David Chalmers and the distributed cognition concept, on the Very Bad Wizards podcast

Peter Thiel's favorite job interview question, as written up by Quartz

The original article on the primacy and precedence of (moral) emotions compared to reasoning - more accessible writeups are also easy to find online - The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment, Jonathan Haidt, University of Virginia