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Changing Computing Cultures with Abeba Birhane

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What Is Pseudoscience and Why Is It So Dangerous?

Sally Kohn: We have so much pseudoscience and, and unfortunately, it's on the rise. She says computer vision is one of the main fields that's advancing this kind of technology. But when it comes to things such as emotion or intelligence, what we find is that these are not phenomena, she says. These are things that can't be read from images of faces nor bodily output. Salkin: The best we can do is capture like a snapshot of a moving target; that's the best outcome out of modeling.

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