Why your job is safe

The JC pontificates about technology An occasional series. Go Premium 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 Index: Click ᐅ to expand: Technology Design Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Requests? Insults? We’d love to 📧 hear from you. Sign up for our newsletter.

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 brianboxes 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”.

See also

• Artificial intelligence
• Technology is a leveller