Kartik Hosanagar talks about his book A Human’s Guide To Machine Intelligence. (3/12/19)

Do you always hear the same few songs on Spotify? See the same few genres of movies queued for Netflix? Constantly get turned off by the same three people popping up on your dating app? Aside from the monotony, do algorithms overrule our preferences, or even our taste for variety? Do algorithms and Artificial Intelligence actually control our lives now? In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, Wharton School professor and computer scientist Kartik Hosanagar dispels some of the mystery around these omnipresent computer codes and expands on the concepts in his book “A Human’s Guide To Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms are Shaping Our Lives and What We Can Do to Control Them.”