Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control.
Speakers Kevin Slavin: Algoworld expert
Kevin Slavin navigates in the algoworld, the expanding space in our lives that’s determined and run by algorithms.
Why you should listen to him:
Are you addicted to the dead-simple numbers game Drop 7 or Facebook’s Parking Wars? Blame Kevin Slavin and the game development company he co-founded in 2005, Area/Code, which makes clever game entertainments that enter the fabric of reality.
All this fun is powered by algorithms -- as, increasingly, is our daily life. From the Google algorithms to the algos that give you “recommendations” online to those that automatically play the stock markets (and sometimes crash them): we may not realize it, but we live in the algoworld.
He says: "The quickest way to find out what the boundaries of reality are is to figure where they break."
"Kevin Slavin sees a world where games shape life and life shapes games."O’Rielly Radar
More info about the Subjects in this talk :
The May 6, 2010 Flash Crash also known as The Crash of 2:45, the 2010 Flash Crash or just simply, the Flash Crash, was a United States stock market crash on May 6, 2010 in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged about 900 points—or about nine percent—only to recover those losses within minutes. It was the second largest point swing, 1,010.14 points, and the biggest one-day point decline, 998.5 points, on an intraday basis in Dow Jones Industrial Average history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
For Sale: The Making of a Fly, Only $23,698,655.93 (Plus $3.99 Shipping) http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/04/26/for-sale-the-making-of-a-fly-only-23698655-93-plus-3-99-shipping/
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies By Michael Eisen | April 22, 2011 - http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
The Netflix Prize was an open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films, based on previous ratings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
The root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_squared_error
Epagogix works confidentially with the senior management of major film studios and large independents, assisting with the selection and development of scripts, helping to transform scripts with low Box Office revenue potential into properties that can be profitably produced and distributed, and identifying scripts with a low probability of commercial success. http://www.epagogix.com/studios.html
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