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Episode 127: Leaving the Mechanical Dollhouse: On Abeba Birhane's "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity"

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The History of Predictive AI

There's an atomism to thought itself that you can't take out. Even though scientists have largely abandoned the Cartesian slash Newtonian model, it still haunts their work. There's a lot of evidence that it is exactly in this AI used for predicting social outcomes,. as opposed to lower level tasks like facial recognition.

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