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#artificialintelligenceAug-18-2016, 19:06:06 GMT

FOR frazzled teachers struggling to decide what to watch on an evening off, help is at hand. An online streaming service's software predicts what they might enjoy, based on the past choices of similar people. When those same teachers try to work out which children are most at risk of dropping out of school, they get no such aid. But, as Sendhil Mullainathan of Harvard University notes, these types of problem are alike. They require predictions based, implicitly or explicitly, on lots of data.

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