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Reading 1: Limitations of artificial intelligence🔗

This assignment is due on Sunday, September 15 at 11:59pm. Don’t bullshit.

Exercise 1. Watch the following talk by Gebru. Focus on how she critiques common beliefs.
Exercise 2. Use this invite link to join Hypothesis, a service that lets us talk to each other as we read. Go to your settings and edit your profile so that your “display name” is the same name that you have been using in this course.

  • When you follow the link above with your browser, you should see Thorp’s news article, as well as a button “<” in the upper-right corner. Use the “<” button to expand the annotation sidebar.

  • You may need to log in to Hypothesis, using the account you created in Exercise 2.

  • **Pay attention to this next step**. This is a common mistake that results in many zeros on the assignment. After logging in, you are not done. You still have to expand the drop-down menu “Public” in the top right sidebar, make sure it says “my groups”, and change it to our course group “211”. You belong to this group because you used the invite link in Exercise 2. If you don’t post to this group, then other students won’t see your annotations, and you won’t get credit.

Exercise 4. Imagine that you are Gebru, and you just read the news article about West Lafayette. How would you react? Select at most one sentence in the news article, and Annotate it with what Gebru would say.

Extra fun. Read How Math Can Be Racist: Giraffing by Melissa Elliott.