People that make computers go crazy
summary
Shows concrete failures: a shipping system drops Unicode so a book sits in a Sweden warehouse, Google's image model scores 89% vs the best human 73% on a radiology test, telephone voice ID cracked in under 10 days, twin image matches block driver’s licenses, legacy test accounts delete real bookings, and an 585‑character legal name IBM 7074 crashes — all examples of precise inputs, dataset biases, and brittle integrations that break real people and services.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 30:43Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar- Jankov
- 43:18Don't use magic values, use test flags
- 51:52No Name Given Sandhya
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