Harvard Data Science Review Podcast
What Can We Learn From The Histories of AI: A Conversation With Stephanie Dick
April 30, 202644 min · 6,525 words
Show notes
What can history teach us about today’s AI revolution? In this month’s episode of the Harvard Data Science Review Podcast, we are joined by Stephanie Dick, a historian of science and technology, to explore how past ideas about knowledge and intelligence shape today’s AI systems.
Highlighted moments
a lot of what gets called innovative is actually, historically speaking, quite conservative in the sense that these inventions reproduce the social order around them.
“We often make hard problems solvable by really simplifying them so that we haven't solved the hard problem, we've solved the easy redefinition of the problem.”
“all data are human data. We actually don't get to bypass ourselves in some of these fundamental ways, even when working with data-driven tools.”
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