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How Smart Is AI? (Part One) with Meredith Broussard

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

CHAPTER

Statistical Concept of Correlation

Early statisticians, like they're all up in the eugenics. It's terrible. We need to do a better job of grappling with this and reckoning with it. Do they do that now? Well, I did hear at one point of somebody trying to do that. Or that thing where they fed in photos of people and they were like, Oh, we're going to use AI to determine if this person is gay based on their photo. That's garbage science. Like, that's not science.

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