A new machine learning system claims to be able to detect depression in people's voices. But the technology is not robust enough, and even if it were, how do we know? We don't have a way to verify whether or not it's right. And at the worst case this like say, you know, i can imagine someone down loading this ap,. talking into their thingand talking to their phone, and then the ap is like, you have depression, right? A. I'm reminded also, in the really early days of the pandemic, everyone was scrambling to figure out,How do we tell cheaply who's got cubliks? The real need there, right)? So
Is artificial intelligence a problem, or is the real problem how we’re using the term in the first place? Linguistics professor Emily Bender joins Adam to discuss why we should resist the urge to be impressed when it comes to big tech’s AI promises, and how our belief in the fantasy of A.I. could be worse than the reality. You can follow Emily on Twitter at @emilymbender.
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