The Algorithm That Missed the Truth
The Algorithm That Missed the Truth by Pablo Castillo This weekend I went to a play in Los Angeles at the Rogue Machine Theater called “Anthropology” by Lauren Gunderson, the first show about AI that I’ve ever seen. I thought that by now I would have seen more plays exploring this topic. What struck me the most was that this show was written before advanced conversational AI like ChatGPT even existed. That’s part of why I love reading books written before World War II. The way people imagined the future back then fascinates me. Their perspective was so different. Before the war, the world felt tangible and real. You could call their vision of the future innocent or naïve, but to me, it was deeply imaginative. I feel the same way when I think about how people viewed the world before the age of advanced AI. The story followed a young woman who lost her sister and couldn’t find her. In her grief, she created a program using everything she could gather abo...
