Sentences with phrase «doing human things»

Some were bulldogs and some were caring, and there were a wide variety of personalities there, but showing actual humans doing human things ends up being an important criteria for marketing and branding.

There is little pretension, and none of the «oh so cute animals doing human things» business that afflicts many similar films.

They do human things!

They love to be near their special people at all times, but sometimes you have to leave to do human things like going to the store, or work, the doctor or anything else.

I would like to start working on this, so in the future I can leave her in her car crate, or at home alone (crated or free in the house if she can handle it), for short periods of time (1 — 3 hours), so I can do human things that she doesn't need to (or can't) come along for (getting a haircut, going out to dinner, visiting someone in the hospital when necessary, etc).

Not exact matches

Systems are very important, however, the first thing we would do when taking over a business would be to understand its Human Capital - we need to know what type of people we have in the organization.

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

Robots can do many things humans can do, often better.

Humans, meanwhile, have things they don't — like emotions and common sense.

Another thing Bossa Nova did was to design the robots to look more «friendly» to humans by installing a small display screen and lighting on its small body.

As a business, you need to identify the things that HR does to increase the value of the humans within the company and keep that in house.

There's a term in the field of human longevity known as negligible senescence, which is a fancy way of saying a thing doesn't seem to age.

Even more important, don't give in to the natural human desire to know exactly what's being said about you, or to try to please everyone so they'll only have good things to say.

«It's the humans convincing themselves that it's a really cool thing to do with their pooch,» said award - winning trainer Bill Berloni of Theatrical Animals, who works with TV, movie and Broadway producers.

«There are things that humans do that are not yet in [purview] of systems like Quill.

On this year's list, robots are going places no human has ever been, «big data» is doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).

As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that person just did that really weird thing.

Beyond being good business, this is simply the human thing to do.

Instead of manually passing data, these «always on» devices in the plugged - in world of the Internet of Things do it automatically without human intervention.

«The parts of medical care to do more with interacting with the patients, making them comfortable, and communicating clearly with them are going to turn out to be the things that only humans can do well.

If you weren't an early adopter of Twitter, or don't spend a ton of time checking your timeline (or if you're just a normal human being with better things to do) you can get a little behind in Twitter abbreviations and acronyms.

The awesome thing about this platform is that it doesn't just detect and alert problems, it also diagnoses what needs to be done to fix them, and impressively, actively implements the necessary solutions without human intervention.

That's sure to be a contentious argument, since many humans take pride in their driving, but in actuality there are few things flesh - and - blood organisms do worse.

After 11 years of studying the habit, and a lifetime battling it, Steel — now a professor of human resources and organizational dynamics at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business — has become the world's leading authority on not getting things done.

Of course, having more information on a client is a good thing, but it doesn't address the fact that human advisors are still more expensive than most online services.

As humans, we're predisposed to doing things the same way.

The list of things that humans can do better than robots is shrinking every day, with cutting noodles being the latest addition.

The most ambitious element of Brooks's scheme was designing Baxter to be trained the way humans learn things — by having someone show them how to do it — instead of having to be programmed by experts.

Assuming the letter you've received doesn't paint the whole picture for you, calling this number will be well worth it as talking to a person not only helps you understand the nuances of the situation but there's comfort in knowing that a human being with a name and a face at the IRS is there to help you figure things out.

So, back to doing things the way everybody else does — or more accurately, with far more workers than the typical assembly line, because Tesla did things wrong to begin with and now has to ramp up the humans to avoid a catastrophe.

We're human beings, not machines, and we need to do things like that.

A lot of human nature will drive us to do the small things that make us look busy and feel like we've somehow contributing to the company.

«Supporting the needs of our employees is one of the most important things we do, especially during significant moments in their lives like having or adopting a child,» said global human - resources executive Sheri Bronstein.

«The human uses his or her intuition and ideas about what to do and ideas about long - term strategies and uses the computer to verify the various things and to do simulations,» Togelius says.

«I have a tough time in any near - term or any medium - term sort of scenario seeing that robots are just going to do their own thing and decide to shoot each other without any interaction [or] human control.»

The human thing to do is bring it to work, whether on a subconscious or conscious level, and then sometimes work is the catalyst for that stress.

We humans don't typically agree on all that much, but there is at least one thing that an impressive amount of us accept: which hand is easiest to control.

The unique thing about AR versus [virtual reality, or VR] is that AR enhances the things that we do as human beings out in the real physical world.

Right now, the human worker who does, say, $ 50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things.

It's only a matter of time, Kurzweil says, until it can do those things like humans can.

Perhaps most importantly, great company cultures are like great societies — they can expand human potential by empowering people to do exceptional things.

So they exist out there and they usually try, if they're entrepreneurs, they build companies that are trying to do the next big thing or trying to make huge changes in human behavior.

Broad Listening, on the other hand, claims that it can identify why people do things, or at least give the insights into why, so that a human can figure it out completely.

Alexa was made to help you get things done, but part of the delight in the Alexa experience is asking some of those random questions that pop into the heads of humans (or that reflect the traits Amazon wants to be associated with its brand).

As he did with other executives who reported directly to him, Mr. Parker met regularly with Mr. Ayre when he was the head of human resources to discuss, among other things, any active investigations of suspected employee misconduct, Mr. Wilkins said.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way.

In cases where the algorithm recommends funding, Social Capital still has humans do things such as legal vetting and other back - office tasks.

Psychologically, humans find it very difficult to perform differently when everybody else is doing something the same thing, and this is a key factor which sustains bubbles.)

Zinn credits his success to disciplined work habits, servant leadership, fulfilling the human needs of his employees, and the will to do the Tough Things First.»

There are a variety of reasons for this gap in understanding: The time gap between discovery research and the translation of that discovery into a therapeutic or a commercial product can take decades, and public and political attention spans are short; the natural human inclination is to pay more attention to things that don't work rather than things that do.