talk by Jack Conte
2019-07-23
thought experiment that “holds that a digital computer executing a program cannot have a mind, understanding or consciousness”
“To what extent is living in a surveillance-saturated world compatible with pluralism and democracy? What are the consequences of raising a generation of children whose every action feeds into a corporate database? What does it mean to be manipulated from an early age by machine learning algorithms that adaptively learn to shape our behavior?”
dizzying