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Apply critical reading strategies

What do you need to do?

In your ow.n wor.ds, paraphrase the following two passages using narrative in-text citations:

1. Those who teach ethics don't need to look far for lessons. Every day there's fresh scandal: Google is in hot water for how it handles political bias; Amazon listens in as you shout at Alexa. There's also the growing canon of case studies on which even your totally-offline grandfather could deftly hold court: ProPublica's investigation of bias in recidivism algorithms that kept black men in jail longer, or the scraping of Facebook of user data by Cambridge Analytica. To make sense of all this, many believe engineering students need a classic humanities education, grounded in philosophy. (Just don't replicate your biases in the classroom-Ethics Twitter recently bristled over an MIT course on AI bias built around the works of dead white guys.)

2. TAKE A THREE-YEAR-OLD to the zoo, and she intuitively knows that the long-necked creature nibbling leaves is the same thing as the giraffe in her picture book. That superficially easy feat is in reality quite sophisticated. The cartoon drawing is a frozen silhouette of simple lines, while the living animal is awash in color, texture, movement and light. It can contort into different shapes and looks different from every angle. Humans excel at this kind of task. We can effortlessly grasp the most important features of an object from just a few examples and apply those features to the unfamiliar. Computers, on the other hand, typically need to sort through a whole database of giraffes, shown in many settings and from different perspectives, to learn to accurately recognize the animal.

from Greg Dunn's (2016) article, "A Map of the Brain Could Teach Machines to See Like You," for WIRED magazine.