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Computers, Information, and Decision-Making
Episode 26

Computers, Information, and Decision-Making

A Conversation with Samantha Kleinberg

New Books in Technology

February 3, 20231h 4m

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Show Notes

Samantha Kleinberg, an associate professor of computer science at Stevens Institute of Technology, talks about a book she’s been writing on how we can (and can’t) use information to make better decisions with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Kleinberg and Vinsel also talk about barriers to artificial intelligence getting dramatically better anytime soon, and why ideas, like “the singularity,” are mere fantasies.

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