What we all need to understand about AI in a nutshell:
There’s an algorithm that can reliably predict, from aggregate facebook posts, the onset of a manic episode in a person suffering from bipolar disorder – more reliably even, than a trained psychotherapist, who only has access to the information a patient provides them in therapy sessions.
“Won’t technology like that help people with bipolar disorder?”
Theoretically, it could. But this algorithm wasn’t designed to help people with bipolar disorder.
This algorithm was designed to sell plane tickets to Las Vegas.
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who the hell leaves half a chicken wing in random other peoples’ gardens
what do u do when paypal gets stuck on the processing spinny wheel
even tho what pumpkin is having a 50% off sale it is cheaper to buy 4 books from topatoco and one from wp rather than three from wp and two from topatoco
holy shit i have the best idea
my line of logic was “well if i put the sponge in the blender, when i turn it on the sponge will spin around and scrub the blender for me so i dont have to spend ages cleaning it”
thats not what happened though :•(