Meredith Broussard

This ushered in this new era in artificial intelligence, the era of machine learning.

When you build one of these systems is you get a ton of data and you feed it into the computer and you say, computer, I want you to create a model of the patterns that you see in the data.

Math is a system of symbolic logic.

It is not the indefinable thing that makes us human.

And when you are building a computer program, it'll work if you do it this way, and then it won't work if you do it the other way.

But that's not how culture operates, right?

That's not how relationships work.

So there's really a fundamental difference between what we can do with computers and what we can do in society.

Because when it comes right down to it, computers are machines that do math.

They compute.