Data Skeptic is an excellent podcast to listen to if you are interested in considered discourse about machine learning, artifical intelligence and occassionally a parrot called Yoshi 🦜.
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This episode#
The music playlist recommendations episode is from a season on recommender systems. This episode touches on topics such as cold starts (what to do for a users’ first visit?) and how to accommodate users with less mainstream tastes.
Relevance to A-level Computer Science#
The discussion around training data and fairness increases your awareness of considerations that must be taken into account when designing algorithms or systems that users interact with. What bias are you introducing? Unforseen consequences?
In AQA 7517 Paper 02, you will have an essay question. It could focus on ethical, moral, legal and cultural issues and this episode might give you some food for thought when responding to a scenario you have not have explicity discussed or thought about before.