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Podcast: Instant Genius
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What’s the deal with algorithms?
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:27:05
Publish Date: 2018-07-18 14:26:32
Description:

Algorithms are everywhere. They can make our lives easier, by curating our Twitter feeds and Netflix suggestions. But they can also be bad. They lack empathy and we can become too reliant on their logical abilities, putting ourselves and others at risk. Here we talk to mathematician Hannah Fry, who tells us all about the good, the bad and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us.  

 

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