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identity
2 films tagged with “identity”
film · 1997
Gattaca
Andrew Niccol
Gattaca is the clearest film ever made about what happens when a proxy metric becomes the thing itself. The genome was meant to predict outcomes; by the time the film opens it has stopped predicting anything, because it…
proxy-metricsmodelsclassification
film · 1982
Blade Runner
Ridley Scott
The Voight-Kampff machine is a classifier, and everything that goes wrong in Blade Runner goes wrong in the way classifiers go wrong. It does not detect artificiality directly, because artificiality is not observable; it…
artificial-intelligenceidentityclassification