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#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Machine Learning Meets Propaganda

CNN's John Sutter is working on a project to improve the way we get our news. He says machine learning algorithms have been used by big tech companies to manipulate people into buying watches, many ads as possible. This has had an unintended consequence of really screwing up our democracy and fragmenting it into filter bubbles, he says. 'I think Donald Trump just had this extreme skill at playing this game in the machine learning algorithm age,' writes Sutter.

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