Ep 1. Hello, World!
Artificial intelligence has seen huge advances in the last decade, very notably in the technology of natural language processing.
Listen 32:48Artificial intelligence has seen huge advances in the last decade, very notably in the technology of natural language processing. NLP has gotten increasingly better at convincingly parroting us back to ourselves, and can sometimes briefly pass for human speech, and even write computer code. But, AI can only work with data that it receives from humans, and when the data is corrupt or biased, the systems will faithfully reproduce the corruption.
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