Jiang describes the Hangzhou facial-recognition example as technology worship: using surveillance because it looks modern, not because it has passed a real educational evaluation.
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Hangzhou
The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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"...right? So the example you referred to is a school in Hangzhou, that was using facial recognition technology to track the focus and the..."
"...things such as privacy, okay? So this is a school in Hangzhou, and they have cameras all over Hangzhou looking at people's faces and..."
"I never went to Beijing. I went to Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai. Oh, Hangzhou, that's right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And... I can't remember the last..."
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