228 - James Scott - Intelligent Machines Are Changing Everything

How do we create artificial intelligence that isn't bigoted? Can we teach machines to work exactly like our brains work? “You don’t program a machine to be smart,” says our guest this week, “you program the machine to get smarter using data.”

We talk to James Scott, statistician, data scientist, and co-author (with Nick Polson) of the new book AIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together.

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226 - Carl Zimmer - The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity