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Artificial Unintelligence Artificial Unintelligence How Computers Misunderstand the World Meredith Broussard The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2018 Meredith Broussard All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or informa- tion storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. Some material in this volume is adapted from essays published in The Atlantic: “Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing” (July 2014) and “The Secret Lives of Hackathon Junkies” (July 2015). Portions of “This Car Won’t Drive Itself” originally appeared in The Pennsylvania Gazette. This book was set in ITC Stone Serif Std by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Broussard, Meredith, author. Title: Artificial unintelligence : how computers misunderstand the world / Meredith Broussard. Description: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017041363 | ISBN 9780262038003 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Electronic data processing--Social aspects. | Computer programs--Correctness. | Errors. Classification: LCC QA76.9.C66 B787 2018 | DDC 303.48/34--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017041363 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For my family Contents I How Computers Work 1 1 Hello, Reader 3 2 Hello, World 13 3 Hello, AI 31 4 Hello, Data Journalism 41 II When Computers Don’t Work 49 5 Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Tests 51 6 People Problems 67 7 Machine Learning: The DL on ML 87 8 This Car Won’t Drive Itself 121 9 Popular Doesn’t Mean Good 149 III Working Together 161 10 On the Startup Bus 163 11 Third-Wave AI 175 12 Aging Computers 193 Acknowledgments 201 Notes 203 Bibliography 211 Index 227
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