Promotions are hard for the employee and the employer. Unless its the first couple of levels in the organizational ladder, there is always a lot of subjectivity that goes into the process from both sides. Even when a company says it is all data driven – it is often the case that subjective decisions (Continue reading “Reality check on promotions”
Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar
We can’t help it – we will alway mess up our future in our quest for convenience !
We – the collective humanity – have always loved the concept of efficiency. “Better, Faster and Cheaper” have always appealed to us. But over the long term, efficiency has not always been in our best interests, perhaps because we never knew when to stop. It follows a fairly consistent pattern that goes like thisContinue reading “We can’t help it – we will alway mess up our future in our quest for convenience !”
Do we need a better North Star for AI than the Turing Test ?
Almost 7 decades have passed since Alan Turing asked “Can Machines Think?” . It’s hard to define what thinking means – and it continues to be hard today as it was in 1950. So Turing took a pragmatic approach and redefined the problem as “Can a computer behave like a human being?”. It was absolutelyContinue reading “Do we need a better North Star for AI than the Turing Test ?”
And Vijay Says... 