“Tech companies are beginning to accept that the artificial intelligence they’re building their futures on could be flawed.”
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“Professor Debra Mashek is leaving a tenured job at Harvey Mudd College to lead Heterodox Academy.”
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“Professor Debra Mashek is leaving a tenured job at Harvey Mudd College to lead Heterodox Academy.”
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“Gaps in opportunity for talented kids with low socioeconomic status don’t just hold back poor, female, black, or Latino children as individuals they also impose potentially enormous losses to society as a whole.”
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“The cognitive reflection test (CRT) is a task designed to measure a person’s tendency to override an incorrect “gut” response and engage in further reflection to find a correct answer. It was first described in 2005 by psychologist Shane Frederick.”
“An unseen force is rising – helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This force is called the coded gaze.”
“Ashok Goel needed help. In his regular courses at Georgia Tech, the computer science professor had at most a few dozen students. But his online class had 400 students — students based all over the world; students who viewed his class videos at different times; students with questions.”
“Ashok Goel needed help. In his regular courses at Georgia Tech, the computer science professor had at most a few dozen students. But his online class had 400 students — students based all over the world; students who viewed his class videos at different times; students with questions.”
“Joi Ito, Scott Dadich, and President Barack Obama photographed in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on August 24, 2016. IT’S HARD TO think of a single technology that will shape our world more in the next 50 years than artificial intelligence.”
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