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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks and Gary Smith
Date
December 26, 2019

Tagged
AI Delusion (book), Algorithm-of-the-Gaps, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Barack Obama, Big Data, Bill Clinton, Bob Dylan, Chamath Palihapitiya, Chinese Room, data analytics, Diederik Stapel, Douglas Hofstadter, Edward Leamer, Facial Recognition, Gary Smith, Hillary Clinton, IBM Watson, J. B. Rhine, John Ioannidis, John Searle, Neural networks, non-algorithmic, Oren Etzioni, Roger Schank, spurious correlations, stock market, Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies, The Winograd Schema Challenge, Zener cards}

Bingecast: Is Cheese Consumption Causing Deaths from Tangled Sheets?

_{Robert J. Marks and Gary Smith

December 26, 2019

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Those dealing with data must always remember “If you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything.” The answers that computers give must themselves be questioned. Robert J. Marks and Gary Smith address artificial intelligence, spurious correlations, and data research on Mind Matters. Show Notes 01:34 | Introduction to Gary Smith, the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona Read More ›

Roadsign rusted with shotgun holes in it

^{Type
podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks and Gary Smith
Date
June 20, 2019

Tagged
academia, ai-delusion, Data Mining, Gary Smith, publish or perish, replication crisis, research, spurious correlations}

The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies

_{Gary Smith discusses his book, the AI Delusion, and how the pressure to publish or perish corrupts research} _{Robert J. Marks and Gary Smith

June 20, 2019

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Bob Marks and Gary Smith offer a range of startling examples of how the pressure to publish drives a lack of rigor — and sometimes honesty — in analyzing and presenting experimental data. The result is a never ending parade of headlines in health and medicine that are unwarranted and often reversed or impossible to replicate. Shownotes 01:00 | Data Read More ›