Some scientists and philosophers are promoting the marriage of beliefs and desires into predictions because they believe that the two concepts have no essential distinctions. They believe that desires are outcomes that agents believe they’ll obtain and that these desires arise from prior beliefs. By combining them, they believe this concept can explain why animals and humans act the way they do. For example, if one believes that their hand should be in a certain place for a particular outcome, they’ll move it there to conform to the prediction. Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
