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Stephen Downes

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This past year was the year of generative analytics. That leaves only my sixth category, deontic analytics, to become mainstream. This is when AI tells us what should be the case. Others are now beginning to predict this, as in this archived version of an NY Times article: "A.I. does learn through statistical distribution the best word to use, the distribution of the reasonable words that could come next. I think moral decision-making can be done like that as well. Instead of making binary, clean-cut decisions, it should sometimes make decisions based on This looks really bad."

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