AI will enrich work environments

AI and Careers

The labor market, and the workplace, are facing unprecedented change. While robots and AI are creating these changes, they are also potentially HR’s best friend in coping with change. Martin Ford’s classic “Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future” from 2015 is symptomatic for the tone of much public discussion […]

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Assessments and memory

Memory management

While it may seem like studying and rehearsing information is the best way to ensure that you will remember it later, researchers have found that being tested on information is actually one of the best ways to improve recall. A study appearing in the November 2006 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology reports that […]

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Memory is linked to learning

Memory management

Memory is a critical mental process and without memory we will be exactly like a machine’s programmed behaviour. We will be capable of nothing but simple reflexes and stereotyped behaviours. Without memory we cannot modify our behaviour, we cannot learn! Learning is yet another fundamental process; it is the ‘capability’/process that enables us to change […]

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What is memory?

Memory management

Memory is a process, not ‘a thing’, not ‘a physical organ’, not ‘just a store’ to place and retrieve information. Memory is not ‘a static entity like the hard disk of a computer’, thankfully. Memory as a process implies that memory is not an organ in our brain and represents a series of activities of […]

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AI will replace tasks, not jobs

AI and Careers

There is no shortage of angst when it comes to the impact of AI on jobs. For example, a survey by Pew Research Internet finds Americans are roughly twice as likely to express worry (72%) than enthusiasm (33%) about a future in which robots and computers are capable of doing many jobs that are currently […]

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