
The Real Problem with A.I. with Emily Bender
Factually! with Adam Conover
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The Infinite Room With Monkeys on Typewriters
Wen: We are so good at interpreting language, we can't help but imagine a mind behind it. Wen: If you could create an algorithm in the infinite room that any time a monkey typed a character that was not part of shakespeare, a bullet goes through the monkey's brain and and the monkey drops dead. And you hand that to some one, it would be to say, oh, well, that monkey is intelligent, right? Because you have algarithmically sorded the random ness in such a way that you've produced an output that we find sensical. A we we would understand that that is just the output of a dumb algorithm. But because
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