Our guest is Ben Recht, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, and co-author with Moritz Hardt of Pattern, Prediction, and Action: A Story About Machine Learning soon to be published by Princeton University Press but already freely available as a pdf format pre-print here. We discuss his work and perspective on machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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Ben Recht: Twitter and webpage

LINKS and RELATED EPISODES:

• AI in medicine: What's hype and what's real (YouTube episode with Anish Koka and Ben Recht)
• Ep. 187 That Bengladesh Mask Study! (with guest Ben Recht)
• Ep. 5 Normal is Fuzzy (with guest Saurabh Jha)
• Lecture by Peter Hacker on the claims of cognitive neuroscience (YouTube)