The Human and the Machine
The program that questions everything...except your intelligence.
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The program that questions everything...except your intelligence.
Listen • 11:16 Would you trust your life to an algorithm? Recent years have seen the rise of machine learning algorithms surrounding us in our homes and back pockets. They're increasingly used in everything from recommending movies to guiding sentencing in criminal courts, thanks to their being perceived as unbiased and fair. But can algorithms really be objective when they are created by biased human programmers? Are such biased algorithms inherently immoral? And is there a way to resist immoral algorithms? Josh and Ken run code with Angèle Christin from Stanford Unive...