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Violet Palmer is the first woman ever to referee an NBA game, and she did it plenty of times. No wonder she’s an inductee in the WNBA Hall of Fame.
Her presentation at TAtech North America explored overcoming challenges to “Make Your Own Way at Work.”
Listen to her awe-inspiring story here.
AI applications and large language models are insatiable consumers of history. They are educated by ingesting billions of online records, publications and comments, some ancient, others more recent, but always from the past. The rationale: The best way to make machines smart is by educating them on what humans have already learned (and often forgotten or overlooked).
The philosopher George Santayana is probably the best known prophet of this view of history as educator. Although his words were different, his opinion is widely expressed in this telling dictum: “Those who don’t learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.”
That’s definitely accurate in the shaping human behavior. When applied to AI-powered products, however, the dictum can have exactly the opposite effect. In fact, at least some of those systems actually contradict Santayana. For them, the dictum should read “Those who learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.” Unfortunately, online recruitment advertising is one of those cases.
Read the post on the TAtech Blog here.
