Why Google defined a new discipline to help humans make decisions

Get the Full StoryMachine-learning systems are only as smart as their training data. So Google formalized the marshaling of hard and soft sciences that go into its decisions.

Cassie Kozyrkov is Google’s first-ever chief decision officer. She has already trained 17,000 Googlers to make better decisions by augmenting data science with psychology, neuroscience, economics, and managerial science. Now Google wants to share this new discipline–which it calls Decision Intelligence Engineering–with the world.Read Full Story

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