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How Smart Is AI? (Part One) with Meredith Broussard

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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I'm So Sorry, I Just About Gave My Blow Dry and for Reeking Out!

We have this idea that science is this infallible thing operating on an island of truth. All of the messiness of being human is tied up in the data that feeds our algorithmic systems. We need to totally reject Francis Galton's eugenicist ideas. And so ultimately, computers are really good at solving mathematical problems and they're really bad at solving social problems.

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