EPISODE · Mar 29, 2021
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results
from Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · host Cory Doctorow
This week on my podcast, I read my November 2020 Locus column, Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results, a critical piece on machine learning and artificial intelligence that takes aim at the fallacy that improvements to statistical inference will someday produce a conscious, cognitive software construct. It’s a followup to my July 2020... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2021/03/28/past-performance-is-not-indicative-of-future-results/" class="more-link" title="Read Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>
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This week on my podcast, I read my November 2020 Locus column, Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results, a critical piece on machine learning and artificial intelligence that takes aim at the fallacy that improvements to statistical inference will someday produce a conscious, cognitive software construct. It’s a followup to my July 2020... more
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