The price tag doesn’t necessarily speak to quality—not always.
“You and a friend are having a picnic by the side of a river. Suddenly you hear a shout from the direction of the water—a child is drowning. Without thinking, you both dive in, grab the child, and swim to shore. Before you can recover, you hear another child cry for help. You and your friend jump back in the river to rescue her as well. Then another struggling child drifts into sight… and another… and another. The two of you can barely keep up. Suddenly, you see your friend wading out of the water, seeming to leave you alone. “Where are you going?” you demand. Your friend answers, “I’m going upstream to tackle the guy who’s throwing all these kids in the water.” —A public health parable (adapted from the original, which is commonly attributed to Irving Zola)”
― Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
― Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
“It was the black jellybeans that did it.”
― The Ghost Brigades
― The Ghost Brigades
“The question they’re answering is not “What is the best solution?” but “What would the humans have done?”
― You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
― You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
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