Your chatbot is a fortune teller, not a truth-teller
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NEW YORK TIMES — Admittedly, we have always been drawn to those who promise to alleviate our anxiety about the future by telling us they know what will happen. In her early chapters, Véliz provides a lively tour through history, from the soothsayers of ancient Greece and Rome through the birth of the insurance industry and the quantification of risk.
Today, automated algorithms use our data to predict whether we’ll pay back a loan or commit a crime. Machine learning in A.I. uses statistical models to fill in unknown parts of a problem. Feed a chatbot a million children’s books, Véliz writes, and it will guess that the prompt “Once upon” should be followed by “a time.”
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