You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Highlight

Algorithms can get a lot more complicated than that, but they never get any smarter. They do not seek out challenges, they do not think flexibly, they don’t persevere to understand, and they don’t construct or critique arguments. They basically permanently fail at all the foundational Habits of Mind from my kid’s elementary school. They are not minds. They are, at most, symbolic machines. And more often than not, these ‘machines’ are just math. ‘Just’ is a mean-spirited word to use for this, though. Math is very useful. Symbolic machines can do extremely helpful symbolic work, and songs and fascinations are made of symbols.