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DistinguishedLecturerSeminar
Chris Wiggins, Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times and Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University
Chris Wiggins and Usama Fayyad, Executive Director at the Institute for Experiential AI
DistinguishedLecturerSeminar
How Data Happened: a history from the age of reason to the (new) age of AI + = chris wiggins columbia class: data-ppf.github.io book: bit.ly/hdh-book
Act 1: a dream, inspired (2016)
- confronting the present (and future!)
1: capabilities: functional, rhetorical, critical
structure: a history of “data”, 1770-present
challenge: a history of “data”, 1770-present
challenge: a history of “data”, 1770-present
2017-09-05: cathy o’neil
2018-01-08: safiya noble
2018-01-23: virginia eubanks
2019-01-15: shoshana zuboff
2019-06-17: ruha benjamin
“vulgar” statistics & resistance to numeration also: “moving targets”, even “statistics”
“intelligence” is a moving mirror : Spearman 1908
“intelligence” is a moving mirror: Spearman 1923
Bletchley, Bayes, and Bell Labs
Turing’s view of “can machines think?”
Turing’s view of “can machines think?”
Ch 7: “AI 1.0”: intelligence, without data
“I invented the term artificial intelligence...when we were trying to get money for a summer study” - JCM, 1973
moving target: ML 1984 (via HDH)
Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck problem facing knowledge “the central engineering today, the bottleneck of knowledge acquisition.”
“big data” had to be invented… and sold!
UNIVAC and NSA documents on early networking and databases
Note that *having* data << *understanding* data
the birth of privacy concerns: state & corporate data
1984 congressional testimony on mingling of databases
• Learning from experience
• Reasoning using rules (logic, mathematics) plus facts
• Learning from experience
• Reasoning using rules (logic, mathematics) plus facts
Shannon’s small language model, 1945, “sufficiently close to English for many cryptographic purposes”: stochastic parakeet << parrot
moving target: AI (now, GAI)
Shannon’s small language model, 1945, “sufficiently close to English for many cryptographic purposes”: stochastic parakeet << parrot
moving target: AI (now, GAI)
moving target: AI (now, GAI)
moving target: AI (now, GAI)
moving target: ML, 1984
moving target: ML, 2011
early “Mixture of Experts”
Then rebranded as “AI” ~2015
from Markkula Center
3-player unstable game (adapted from Janeway)
- the arc we learned from the students - there is important material that is not being taught (not to future statisticians) (not to future senators and CEOs) - data, truth, and power what do we hope people get out of the book?
How Data Happened: a history from the age of reason to the age of algorithms + = chris wiggins columbia class: data-ppf.github.io book: bit.ly/hdh-book
Chris Wiggins
Chief Data Scientist
at The New York Times
and Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University
Fayyad Executive
Directorat the
Institutefor Experiential AI
Usama
June 20-21, 2024
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