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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is Explainable a I a Good Idea?

i find it fascinating, because you're told that a i can't come up with explanations for why it's made certain decisions. And in fact, the algarism cannot tell us why, and no human can understand why. They just know what they put in. It's fascinating because it makes me think of a recent podcast i did with judea pearl,. who studies causality from a sort of network of random variables kind of perspective. A big part of his research is helping artificial intelligence understand causal relationships between things.

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