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Aspen Ideas Festival
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Season 2
Episode 139
Suddenly, machines are learning from gigantic expanding data sets at rapid rates. Almost overnight, machines have acquired abilities that computer scientists have been spending decades to develop. How did a small group of brainy pioneers crack the machine-learning code? By designing machines that work like brains, of course.
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Should we ever intentionally drive a species extinct?

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Privacy Paradox experiment on WNYC’s “Note to Self,” along with ProPublica senior reporter

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What role does faith play in his quest to bring people together?

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What constitutes a “good job”? What roles should business and gov. play in creating them?

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What are the drivers of economic growth and opportunity in a changing world?

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Will President Trump and the party’s traditional conservatives ever get in sync?

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Graeme Wood is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a lecturer at Yale University
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Lyrical, musical, and physical acrobatics will introduce ideas and issues central to Ideas