2018 Is the Year of the Intangibles – BRIGHT Magazine

April 12, 2017 was the first time I was accused of machine learning. It was mid-morning, mid-class at Stanford University's d.school. Nine graduate students were taking shifts in front of a white board, moving and clustering sticky notes, scanning for connections amongst lessons scribbled upon each. Zoom in, circle a group of like ideas, and write a headline about how they're related. Zoom out, read the headlines, zoom in, erase and explode a grouping that isn't working, make a new one. We had a nice flow going. And then, one of my students said, "This is just like machine learning."