what are you reading interviews at book tv.org using the search bar at the top of the page. that evening, i m the director of programming and marketing at the city library and before we get started i should mention if you have questions tonight you can leave those in the comments or in the chat box and we will get to as many as we can. and if you re interested in person purchasing the knowledge machine it s available at retailers for your support, independent booksellers and we need you to support the most. if you re a long time follower of ourprogramming either in person or online , you know that we deal heavily in the humanities. tonight we turn our attention to the sciences, albeit with a heavy dose of time. our guest is michael strevens, he moved tothe united states in 1991 . professor at new york university he wrote the book the knowledge machine: how irrationality created modern science and it is i think critically important at the time when distrust of science is o
brought to you by your television provider . welcome to today s virtual program, from the commonwealth club of california. i m the club s vice president of media and your moderator for today.we d like to thank our members, donors and supporters were making this and all of our programs possible. we re of course grateful and we welcome others joining us during these uncertain times. today i m pleased to be joined by brian christian, programmer and author of the new book the alignment problem, machine learning. which was released last week. he discusses theoretical contributions documented in his best-selling book the most human humans and an outer of them to live by. christians posing questions of if we continue to rely on artificial intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself is the problem. he s a professor of philosophy and poetry, tackling the ethical and technological implications of a advanced society becomes more relianton technology . his work in
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emotions. is this the next breakthrough for voice recognition and ai? first to our top story, after months of predicting the trade deal, economists and financial institutions are growing increasingly pessimistic. the u.s. crackdown on huawei could make apples troubles in china even more difficult. they could take a big hit if china decides to retaliate against the united states. goldman sachs estimates a chinese ban on the sale could cut earnings by 29%. we think there is going to be an informal boycott of sorts. china is not fond of america right now and the trump administration because of how it will impact the economy. when these kinds of things happen, you see them latch onto their own brands. huawei, in many respects, is the apple of china, people love it there. if people had to choose in china between a huawei or iphone device, they might lead towards huawei because of the tariffs in the trade situation. and what s going on with the u.s. bands. as someone running th
and amazon is working on a device that can recognize human emotions. is this the next breakthrough for voice recognition and ai? after months of predicting the trade deal, economists and financial institutions are growing increasingly estimates the pessimistic. the crackdown on huawei could make apples troubles in china even more difficult. they could take a big hit if china decides to retaliate. goldman sachs estimates a chinese band could cut earnings by 29%. joined to discuss. we think there is going to be an informal boycott of sorts. china is not fond of america right now and the trump administration because of how it will impact the economy. when these kinds of things happen, you see them latch onto their own brands. , in many respects, is the apple of china, people love it there. if people had to choose, they might lead towards huawei because of the terrace in the strait situation tariffs in the trade situation. as someone running these numbers, we have heard t