"This is the first post in a series I plan to write on the work from our group and others that combines ideas from deep learning with ideas from self-organization and collective systems. In this first post, we’ll look at some of the _...Read More_

“these systems are engaged in actively shaping society to fit the models they create. When the options for human activity are reduced to a set of “optimal” choices made available through a machine-generated recommendation, other courses of _...Read More_

"You can see the faint stubble coming in on his upper lip, the wrinkles on his forehead, the blemishes on his skin. He isn’t a real person, but he’s meant to mimic one—as are the hundreds of thousands of others made by Datagen, a company _...Read More_