Why your job is safe

JC pontificates about technology An occasional series. →Go uptown Goldman’s data wizards predicted this: We actually got this: A likely sporting outcome according to Google a couple of years ago A likely sporting outcome according to Google yesterday Nice one, Amazon Index: Click ᐅ to expand: Technology Design Tell me more Sign up for our newsletter — or just get in touch: for ½ a weekly 🍺 you get to consult JC. Ask about it here.

An occasional running series intended to pose the question: when will Adam Curtis’ assertion that the vaunted predictive power of big data is a “modern ghost story”.

Your job is safe as long as:

• Those splendid data-wizard brainboxes at Goldman Sachs can get their predictions this wrong ==>
• Google thinks this ==> is a sensible win prediction for a cricket match.
• Or, for that matter, this ==>
• Microsoft’s auto-correct for “bhusiness” suggests “bushiness” but not “business”.
• Android voice recognition interprets “Richard Strauss” as “Richard’s trouser”.
• Amazon can send push notification to a customer with adult children and no car, about whom it has 25 years of rich data, guessing that he would like a new car-seat

See also

• Artificial intelligence
• Technology is a leveller