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Terry Winograd: ‘You don’t want to use AI in those cases where human care is really what matters’
“I started in the MIT AI lab, and it was one of the very early places that did symbolic AI – what’s called good old fashioned AI. I ended up coming to the AI lab at Stanford. Over time a couple of things happened.  My approach shifted, dropping the assumption that we were modeling human […] The post Terry Winograd: ‘You don’t want to use AI in those cases where human care is really what matters’ appeared first on The Almanac .
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“I started in the MIT AI lab, and it was one of the very early places that did symbolic AI – what’s called good old fashioned AI. I ended up coming to the AI lab at Stanford. Over time a couple of things happened.  My approach shifted, dropping the assumption that we were modeling human […] The post Terry Winograd: ‘You don’t want to use AI in those cases where human care is really what matters’ appeared first on The Almanac .
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According to The Almanac’s source item, Terry Winograd: ‘You don’t want to use AI in those cases where human care is really what matters’, “I started in the MIT AI lab, and it was one of the very early places that did symbolic AI – what’s called good old fashioned AI. I ended up coming to the AI lab at Stanford. Over time a couple of things happened. My approach shifted, dropping the assumption that we were modeling human […] The post Terry Winograd: ‘You don’t want to use AI in those cases where human care is really what matters’ appeared first on The Almanac .
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