For talent development, this is no different.The fields of artificial intelligence and talent development have been on a collision course for decades, and their convergence has already occurred. On the horizon, AI-powered innovations are transforming the workplace and the role of the talent development professional, affecting recruiting to training to compensation.

If you recognize the name B.F. Skinner, you probably associate him with behaviorism, a school of psychology that claims to explain all human behavior as a response to stimuli from the outside world (reward or punishment). If we want to change behavior, we need only change the stimuli, as the movie based on his work, A Clockwork Orange, graphically demonstrated.

If you want to get a sense of the vast amount of data exploding every second, visit Internet Live Stats and watch the numbers for Internet users, websites, emails, and many other statistics updated in real time. But watch outyou might find yourself mesmerized by the rolling numbers and the dizzyingly rapid pace of expansion they represent.

When people discuss how the human mind works, they often use computer terminology. This way of looking at the human mind perceives human thinking as information processing, much like how computers process information.

Many learning practitioners find the topic of instructional feedback confusing, so I thought it might be a good topic review. To understand feedback, lets define what it is and what it should do.