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Opinion
Fry: AI regulation requires an FDA-style independent auditing board
“Some of the suggestions have been, and I think this is one that I broadly support. Some of the suggestions have been to copy the pharmaceutical industries model. So where you have a separate board, like the FDA, who have the ability to really interrogate these…”
Hannah Fry Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 24:49 #87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms
Opinion
Fry: Chess grandmasters agree Kasparov was still better than Deep Blue
“Because I think all of the chess grandmasters are pretty much uniformly in agreement that at that moment in time, when the machine beat Kasparov, Kasparov was still the better player. But it was the fact that he was a human, it was the fact that he had those h…”
Hannah Fry Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 40:47 #87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms
Opinion
Fry: Formula One is fundamentally a giant mathematics competition with glamour
“I'm a big fan, actually, of Formula One, and the reason why I like it, if I'm honest with you, is because I think of it as a giant maths competition just with, you know, a bit of glamour on top.”
Hannah Fry Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 5:31 #87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms
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