How algorithms shape our world - Kevin Slavin
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Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. Slavin also warns that we are writing code we can't understand with implications we can't control.
Towards the end of his talk, Slavin describes how algorithms are actually altering the physical landscape. Math, he says, is moving from “being something that we extract and derive from the world to something that actually starts to shape it.” What are Slavin’s examples of this? Does it seem different to you than other landscape-altering initiatives like a transcontinental railroad or a hydroelectric dam? Why or why not?
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