Author: Marcelo
Smart cities are for refugees
There’s very little difference between smart cities and modern occupied zones. Both postulate ubiquitous sensor coverage, continuous algorithmic vigilance, and…
AIs are scapegoats and it’s us who end up bleeding
No AI built today has anything remotely approaching consciousness or personhood; the unstable mess of a Windows operating system is…
Using outcome-driven AI to avoid fake ROI traps
Businesses don’t do data analytics because they are curious, they do it because the want results: to find levers in…
2019 Should be the end of Big Attention
If your business or cultural strategy was based on attention at scale, the first years of the century felt great,…
AI for Science and Management in 2019: You haven’t seen disruption yet
For all of its explosive growth, AI still has to make deep roads in management (as opposed to operations) and…
Digital anamnesis and other crimes [short story]
A database is a tool for forgetting; it decays on command, faster than nightmares and more thoroughly than graves. That’s…
Short story: “On Agile Management as a Mechanism of Social Control”
No, for God’s sake, it’s not the Turing Police. They don’t look for superhuman AIs, much less the sort that…
Mapping the shifting constellations of online debate
Online conversations, specially around contentious topics, are complex and dynamic. Mapping them is not just a matter of gathering enough…
The politics of crime-fighting software
Call it machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, or simply computational intelligence: countries are rushing to apply new technologies to combat crimes,…
Using machine learning to read Sherlock Holmes
A while ago I posted about how to use machine learning to understand brand semantics by mining Twitter data —…