The Danger of Humanizing Algorithms

Misleading terminology can be dangerous. Machines are actually not learning

The Unlikely Techie
Better Programming
Published in
6 min readAug 19, 2020

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Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash.

To many, 2016 marked the year when artificial intelligence (AI) came of age. AlphaGo triumphed against the world’s best human Go players, demonstrating the almost inexhaustible potential of artificial intelligence. Programs playing board games with superhuman skills like AlphaGo…

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