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Ken Liu: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Machine Translation Is a Work of Art

The idea that people treat a machine translation as somehow authoritative to me is deeply troubling and bizarre. The general idea that big data will lead us to distrust personal experience and lived reality is something that i push back it over and over again. I still think there's actually quite a lot of potential in the idea of a recommendation system allowing to discover things you otherwise wouldn't discover. We have not seemed to found a way to really implement it correctly, he says.

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