Bingecast: Is Cheese Consumption Causing Deaths from Tangled Sheets?

Those dealing with data must always remember “If you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything.” The answers that computers give must themselves be questioned. Robert J. Marks and Gary Smith address artificial intelligence, spurious correlations, and data research on Mind Matters. Show Notes 01:34 | Introduction to Gary Smith, the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College 02:40 | The AI Delusion 05:04 | Stocks, Data, and Analysis 07:04 | Presidential campaigns and data analytics 10:53 | Bill Clinton and neural networks 11:28 | IBM Watson and Jeopardy 13:30 | The Winograd Schema Challenge 15:06 | Read More ›