‘What happens when computers – apparently the embodiment of pure mathematical rationality – start to use human language? They reproduce the traces of our passions, of course.’ Photograph: Maksim Kabakou/Alamy View more sharing options Shares 15 Comments 12 Friday 14 April 2017 17.49 BST Last modified on Friday 14 April 2017 17.50 BST “Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” wrote David Hume. Language, our instrument of reason, is saturated with value judgments. So what happens when compu
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