Quotes from the book "Hello World - Hannah Fry"
No object or algorithm is ever either good or evil in itself. It's how they're used that matters. GPS was invented to launch nuclear missiles and now helps deliver pizzas. Pop music, played on repeat has been deployed as torture device.
Psychologists have been using a system of five characteristics to quantify an individual's personality. You get a score on each of the following traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Collectively, they offer a standard and useful way to describe what kind of a person you are.
In the United States spending a year in a high-security prison can cost about the same as going to Harvard.
At this point AI is better at spotting Breast cancer than Humans and the pigeons are better than AI (in particular types of cancers).
Refining an algorithm often means making a choice between sensitivity and specificity.
We use popularity as a proxy for quality in all forms of entertainment.
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.
Creativity is just finding an association between two things which ordinarily would not seem related.
Among all of the staggeringly impressive, mind-boggling things that data and statistics can tell me, how it feels to be human isn't one of them.
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