Time Passes, Love Fades, But What Does "It" All Mean?

Mind Matters

Aug 01 2019 | 00:19:40

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Show Notes

Gary N. Smith and Robert J. Marks discuss the inability of AI to understand puns, lyrics, context, or anything at all. From trading futures, predicting political outcomes, and parsing lyrics, the fundamental incomprehension of artificial intelligence is a key to understanding its limitations. Show Notes 02:30 | The AI Delusion by Oxford University Press 03:00 | The importance of knowing how to interpret data 03:40 | The stock market and the “Super Bowl Indicator” 04:00 | “Utter nonsense” and mistaking correlation for causation 04:30 | Computers and generating incidental correlations 05:00 | The quants (a quantitative analyst or data modeler) Read More ›

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