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Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are.
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Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are.
Chris Wiggins, a data scientist for the New York Times, chronicled and examined the history of data science going all the way back to 1700.
Today’s poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines
Starting with the birth of statistics in the 19th century and concluding with algorithms and AI systems, a new book examines how humans became studied as a set of ones and zeroes.
In their new book, professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones examine how data acts as the lifeblood of modern society, shaping everything from our political views and social mores to our military responses and economic activities..