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Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (May 25, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Philosophy of Machine Learning

There is no right answer to that. There might be answers that say if you have those kinds of principles Then you'll wipe your species out and then there won't be anything more to discuss But beyond that it's um It's basically a question of well, what do the humans actually want? Then you can encode that in some way that machines can understand but there is no kind of perfect right answer. You know even from knowing a tiny bit of philosophy You're going to know that that's the case And yet you can get yourself very confused If you think oh, I'm just gonna think in terms of machine learning and I'm gonna think about you know Do I have a bias data set

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