AI Delusions: A Statistics Expert Sets Us Straight

Walter Bradley Center's director Robert J. Marks was joined for this week's podcast by economics professor Gary Smith. This episode, When I Nod My Head, Hit It! And Other Commands that Confuse AI, explores the fact that computers don't have common sense. Which means that as data gets larger and larger, nonsensical coincidences become more probable, not less. Smith, the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College, is the author of The AI Delusion (Oxford University Press, 2018).