The “Great Unread” and the “Black Box”

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Imagine that you can summarize and analyze the “Great Unread”, all the works of literature in human history, but only by feeding it through a “Black Box”, an algorithm that nobody fully understands. Does the output have explanatory value? If so, what kind?

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2024-10-20

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Barta, Walter. 2024. “The “Great Unread” and the ‘Black Box’”. The International Review of Information Ethics 34 (1). Edmonton, Canada. https://informationethics.ca/index.php/irie/article/view/534.

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Vol. 34 No. 1 (2024): Case Studies in AI Ethics

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