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The Ghosts in the Machine: Why We Never Truly “Unlearn” Anything

We often treat our minds like the hard drives of a modern computer. When we realize a piece of information is wrong—when we learn that a tomato is…

Can an Algorithm Have a Memory? The Ghostly Echoes of Data

In March 2016, Microsoft released an AI-powered chatbot named Tay onto the social media platform Twitter. Designed to “learn” from its…