Curious Data

If AI can run a million tests a minute, what is the one thing only a human can do?

Bob Lytle sold his last company, took a pause, and came back with a question worth building a show around. If artificial intelligence is only as good as the data behind it, who decides which data to trust?

In this first episode, Bob shares why he built Curious Data, the three promises he is making to listeners, and the idea at the center of it all. Everybody is already a data analyst. He traces a career that runs from jingle producer to credit bureaus to political data, and lands on the one skill AI cannot replicate.

Curiosity is what turns messy information into better decisions, and it is the reason humans stay in charge. Listen now.

• [00:00:00] Why Bob hit pause after selling his company, and what he built next
• [00:01:39] The three promises behind every Curious Data episode
• [00:02:18] Data or gut: how to actually back up a decision
• [00:04:27] The listeners who marvel at the internet yet still cannot tell what is true
• [00:04:49] Where the phrase curious data came from, and the 10,000 hours idea behind it
• [00:06:09] The question a curious kid asks that a machine never will
• [00:06:31] The one thing that keeps humans in charge, no matter how fast AI gets
• [00:08:16] From jingle producer to Navy veteran
• [00:09:52] Musical data, credit scores, vote totals: why data is like air
• [00:10:54] The three challenges Bob wants you to hold him to

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Curious Data is an original production hosted by Bob Lytle. Brought to you by Centri Analytics. Production and editing by Podcast Your Brand.