SandDune - The Fax Machine Will Never Die

We start Season Two asking how AI algorithms can be transparent? Do we need to see the training data? One author thinks AIs playing role-playing games will be a sign of their intelligence. We wonder if pre-compiled ML models can go haywire. Hans questions Emirates' lack of transparency over Flight 231, and we look down on Meryl Streep's latest flick. We touch on crypto and blockchain and ask if transparency without the power to act is cruel, and pull out the popcorn, and the bleep button, to watch @jwz and @plinss criticize @mozilla over accepting crypto donations, and struggle to understand why people take framework wars so seriously.

UPDATE: As soon as we finished recording, Mozilla changed their stance on accepting crypto-‘currency’.

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