How algorithms shape our world - Kevin Slavin

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    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. Slavin also warns that we are writing code we can't understand with implications we can't control.
    Talk by Kevin Slavin.

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  • @TEDEd
    @TEDEd  11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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  • @JoelYancey
    @JoelYancey 8 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    Looking for motivation to study for my college algorithms course, is what brought me here

    • @VictorGarcia-si8wy
      @VictorGarcia-si8wy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Looks like you graduated? Happy for you man!

    • @hxxzxtf
      @hxxzxtf 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here

    • @Ayush-lj6pq
      @Ayush-lj6pq 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hxxzxtf same here

    • @FaSoLP
      @FaSoLP 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      for me it's motivation (and inspiration) for finishing a term paper on algorithmic cultures :D

    • @jamjam3448
      @jamjam3448 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

  • @Mimas2115
    @Mimas2115 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mos of the time, when I ask people who work in IT/CS what an 'algorithm' is, they always respond with some jargon and jumble a lot of words together that barley formes a cohesive sentence, but this was beautifully and clearly explained. Thank you Kevin!

  • @nathanael98
    @nathanael98 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    7 years old and still so relevant, amazing talk

  • @ClassyNova
    @ClassyNova 8 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    This by far the easiest explanation of Algorithms and their process in the world, that I have heard to date, and I have heard many.
    TED-ED and TED-Talks are very addictive to those who love to grasp something new and exciting,, to expand their minds...and to learn.

    • @christiankopet5891
      @christiankopet5891 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +ClassyNova I know right? He explains it in a complex yet understandable way

    • @egidijuskuprusevicius4225
      @egidijuskuprusevicius4225 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      what did you understand? he explained nothing

    • @leom6165
      @leom6165 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Algorithms is nature itself,and its mechanical predictable effect, which makes the universe easier to understand even stupidity can be measure regardless of its size

    • @SuperBhavanishankar
      @SuperBhavanishankar 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@egidijuskuprusevicius4225 right 👍

    • @dc174
      @dc174 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@leom6165 😂

  • @BinaryReader
    @BinaryReader 11 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I still think this is the best TED talk ever done.

    • @StopWhining491
      @StopWhining491 ปีที่แล้ว

      And really, really scary.

    • @j.michaelantoniewiczii5309
      @j.michaelantoniewiczii5309 ปีที่แล้ว

      Certainly explains why 2nd generation (and later) Stealth got *WAY* more expensive....😎

    • @Koochie_Luxx
      @Koochie_Luxx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Man understood the coming of the new ages. 10year on people have only just started using algorithms for personal gain (Businesses, contractors, social media influencers) Worlds become almost virtual

  • @SeekersofUnity
    @SeekersofUnity 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    "It's a bright future, if you're an algorithm"

  • @oumardiaw8076
    @oumardiaw8076 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This Ted is one of the most fascinating
    Not only the speaker is a great communicator, but his voice is so captivating !!!

  • @chrisMsimon
    @chrisMsimon 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Glad I finally caught up on this one...gr8 recommendation gb-m. Thx.

  • @teugene5850
    @teugene5850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    this was absolutely terrifying.... i wasn't informed as to how deep the rabbit hole went!!!!

    • @andormarcel6624
      @andormarcel6624 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They don't want you to be informed, because this info is disturbing

  • @computingatschoolTV
    @computingatschoolTV 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Added to our favourites playlist :)

  • @yashanand1910
    @yashanand1910 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think this is the most underrated ted talk ever.

  • @christiankeifer8688
    @christiankeifer8688 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this video has taught me so much. I hope that other people's journeys go through this amount of knowledge and detail

  • @mateusantoni136
    @mateusantoni136 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Someone else think it's cute how shy he gets when being applauded with his hand tapping his thigh?

    • @queeniefcharles
      @queeniefcharles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yes please protect this man at all cost

  • @armandocastro6914
    @armandocastro6914 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Does anyone know where can i learn how to make algorithms, on line?

  • @EMILIO-kn3ty
    @EMILIO-kn3ty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    he looks so proud at the end, great job

  • @BedroomPianist
    @BedroomPianist 7 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Can someone, anyone, get this man a glass of water

  • @docraineyIII
    @docraineyIII 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic presentation.

  • @DaKingLawson
    @DaKingLawson ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Phenomenal explination Kev!

  • @bsimpson639
    @bsimpson639 7 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    This is the best TED talk I've heard yet.

    • @William14094
      @William14094 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He did a horrible job explaining. More confused after watching.

  • @sumerorr
    @sumerorr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These people are amazing make our future more easy ❤️

  • @LudwigSpiegel
    @LudwigSpiegel 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very,very interesting topic!

  • @Provoker7
    @Provoker7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    10 years later, still the best TED talk ever given

  • @DavidKirwanirl
    @DavidKirwanirl 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Enjoyed this talk :)

  • @Utspeladfz
    @Utspeladfz 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I don't quite understand it either. But what the general idea is that we have an market based on algorithms which are communicating with themselves unsupervised by humans. Which can either create total chaos if we don't learn to understand it, or the other way, if we actually learn to understand it.

  • @Axphey007
    @Axphey007 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    15 mins to educate and learn the power of ALGORITHMS.
    #MachineLearning

  • @EdwinRiveraTheOneThatGotAway
    @EdwinRiveraTheOneThatGotAway 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    very interesting indeed.Thanks.

  • @Cigotie
    @Cigotie 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    EPIC VIDEO!! Best one ever

  • @zodiacfml
    @zodiacfml 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    damn, i'm blown away with this.

  • @ThePositiveTarot
    @ThePositiveTarot ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy has such a great sense of humor!

  • @defydog
    @defydog 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This guy just blew my mind

  • @2012Misanthrope
    @2012Misanthrope 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    so good!!

  • @bhaskarpandey8586
    @bhaskarpandey8586 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Kevin 11 !

  • @nick29oz
    @nick29oz 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    how did this go blew your mind away

  • @trefod
    @trefod 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Makes me want to tear it all down.

  • @haloandre
    @haloandre 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    WHY DO THEY NEVER HAVE QUESTION TIME AFTER THE TALKS?

  • @NaeemAkramAndroidiOSApp
    @NaeemAkramAndroidiOSApp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This talk never gets old or boring.

  • @HariprasadNJ
    @HariprasadNJ 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome!

  • @serenitystocks3917
    @serenitystocks3917 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "I always find it extraordinary that so many studies are made of price and volume behavior, the stuff of chartists. Can you imagine buying an entire business simply because the price of the business had been marked up substantially last week and the week before? Of course, the reason a lot of studies are made of these price and volume variables is that now, in the age of computers, there are almost endless data available about them. It isn’t necessarily because such studies have any utility; it’s simply that the data are there and academicians have worked hard to learn the mathematical skills needed to manipulate them. Once these skills are acquired, it seems sinful not to use them, even if the usage has no utility or negative utility. As a friend said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
    The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville
    by Warren E. Buffett

  • @fernandovelazquezvelasco2764
    @fernandovelazquezvelasco2764 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Has this been reuploaded ?

  • @AilenProof
    @AilenProof 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The comments:
    - Can somebody get this man a glass of water
    - No it's just the mic rubbing on his scruff
    - Stupidest talk
    - Best talk

    • @timcook3410
      @timcook3410 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Obo DOS well what do u think?

  • @HowardBregman
    @HowardBregman 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I thought this talk effectively linked 3 realms that may seem independent, but are not. Algorithms link the theoretical world (the science of BIG DATA) to the physical world (building design-architecture, geography) to the financial world (High speed trading). Fascinating? Absolutely! Useful? Maybe, still workin' on it!

  • @SkylerBaird
    @SkylerBaird 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome

  • @himarit1484
    @himarit1484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    now architecture is indispensable with algorism. Either we reconstruct idea on the digital world, or just let the algorithms to generate the unpredictable shape. That is what I am as the first-year student in architecture tackling into.

  • @jccarbunkle
    @jccarbunkle 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Does anyone know where I can go to learn more about this topic? (Human answers only, no youtube bots please)

  • @lajuklengtu
    @lajuklengtu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    He winked at the end !!!

  • @XShadowHazeX
    @XShadowHazeX 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting.

  • @deepikat2570
    @deepikat2570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In computer science total how many algorithms are there?

    • @antonlevitan6165
      @antonlevitan6165 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @DEEPIKA K. TIWARI at least 3

    • @deepikat2570
      @deepikat2570 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@antonlevitan6165 atmost how many?

  • @iBeastKiControl
    @iBeastKiControl 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you nailed it

    • @jessjohnson4778
      @jessjohnson4778 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      it's been 9 years u still remember what algorithms are?

  • @DhruvSethandmyworks
    @DhruvSethandmyworks 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    This has been one of my fav. talks!!! Awestruck! Still thinking ;O

  • @Jack_X075
    @Jack_X075 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Focus on what he says at 8:49, mind blown......

  • @degummybear
    @degummybear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Underrated

  • @NirajHirachan
    @NirajHirachan 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wow....just awesome presentation ;)

  • @elapplzsl
    @elapplzsl 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So wait why don't we understand an algorithm that we create or are these algorithms are "free" from human influence?(I'm referring to knife, carnival ect algorithms)

    • @bens5859
      @bens5859 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Those "algorithms" exhibit patterns just like man-made algorithms do, but they are not man made. They are the result of different man-made algorithms interacting with one another. When some already-complex algorithms interact with one another, the complexity of the combined algorithms increases dramatically, which is why we don't yet understand them.

    • @elapplzsl
      @elapplzsl 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ben Stegeman Ah thanks so the speaker is referring to the combined understanding of the algorithmic system not a particular single one.
      I got confused thinking it was these single algorithms that we can't understand.

    • @bens5859
      @bens5859 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      elapplzsl Well, the combined algorithms do act as single algorithms, but we don't understand them because we aren't exactly sure how the ingredient algorithms are interacting with one another to create the result algorithm. But yes, it would certainly be bad news if we didn't understand the algorithms that we make ourselves. (Although I suspect that when multiple people collaborate on an algorithm, this can be the case.)

  • @DhruvSethandmyworks
    @DhruvSethandmyworks 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    true . . but i like the content coming out :P

  • @melanieb6914
    @melanieb6914 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Algorithms that protect. Ones that counter mistakes and even help better enforcement over fraud and other crimes = awesome 😍

  • @MasterofOblivion1
    @MasterofOblivion1 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shout out to the honors program!

  • @tywainwright1
    @tywainwright1 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What does that mean?

  • @bulcad444
    @bulcad444 11 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

    • @s101077
      @s101077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Abu jabbar

    • @rajivunome
      @rajivunome 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They simply use his name he didnt create algorithm

    • @mohamedaminedjidel1808
      @mohamedaminedjidel1808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rajivunome he did everything, the hardest part from algebra to other levels of math

    • @rajivunome
      @rajivunome 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mohamedaminedjidel1808 No he didnt his algebra was an elementary version hard algebra is abstract or geometry algebra

    • @mohamedaminedjidel1808
      @mohamedaminedjidel1808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rajivunome Algebra , algorithms , complicated numbers and more , everything that any software engineer or a space explorer or .... , Need and learn before starting its journey , thanks to that legend

  • @foohi08
    @foohi08 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    14:55 Dat Wink !!!

  • @ktkace
    @ktkace 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Seems like earth becoming like the landscape of Gunbuster at the end isnt so far fetched afterall

  • @deepakkabilan
    @deepakkabilan 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That's cool

  • @fromAtotheZ
    @fromAtotheZ 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's the mic scratching against his beard :]

  • @tholo.nkadimeng
    @tholo.nkadimeng 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really can't blame this guy for my lack of understanding

  • @nrviognjiocfmbkirdom
    @nrviognjiocfmbkirdom 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why there isn't Google Stocks?

  • @okie9025
    @okie9025 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What others hear: This is a photograph by the artist Michael Majaar
    What I hear: njnjsznjsznjnszj

  • @rRobertSmith
    @rRobertSmith 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    13:16 machines manifest destiny...or what computers want...

  • @Arkhanno
    @Arkhanno 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    While it is an alt account he is right. The 'soul' is just a way for humans to describe something we can't fully understand or properly define.

  • @shadieq3859
    @shadieq3859 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    15 minutes well spent.

  • @jonbenge2383
    @jonbenge2383 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It be the mic every once in awhile rubbing against is sweaty cheek.

  • @bluegiant13
    @bluegiant13 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fucking sweet talk !

  • @chorgin
    @chorgin 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    haven`t i seen this?

  • @rRobertSmith
    @rRobertSmith 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    google finance? please restate the question...you mean commonly available trading robots? they have those already also...they are back tested and put on line to trade...

  • @brucelawrence5305
    @brucelawrence5305 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The prize of making a "Time machine"that can use Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle to split a minute fraction of a yoctosecond out of a microsecond will be to get the Quantum Jump on the Fastest Algorithm Trading anywhere in the World.
    This will require just the infinitesimal fraction of Ten to power -49 Quantum Variation being amplified by an Algorithm App & Hey Presto....Time travelling Algorithm will conquer all our Financial Services in a few seconds.Rejoice humanity that you Evolved IT.

  • @96MasterOfPuppets96
    @96MasterOfPuppets96 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the mic is scratching on his stubble :P

  • @LuisLamadridT
    @LuisLamadridT 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's his beard in contact with the microphone.

  • @Melroph
    @Melroph 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what roles do algorithms play on wall street though? he lost me on that. is it market analysis?

    • @Jack_X075
      @Jack_X075 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Trading...... direct trading.....apart from analysis and several other stuff..... 70% of the stocks getting traded on the exchange are all algorithm based

    • @Melroph
      @Melroph 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok. So that's like automatic trading and business being done. I get that. Are all market businesses run by computers then?

  • @eddielong96
    @eddielong96 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    it's the mic rubbing on his stubble

  • @oO_ox_O
    @oO_ox_O 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I didn't notice until you said that, now I can't unnotice it. >:O

  • @DANNYBOYWONDA
    @DANNYBOYWONDA 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would have not noticed if I didn't read your comment..... thanks :P

  • @genrytov
    @genrytov 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want to be this guy's friend.

  • @j.michaelantoniewiczii5309
    @j.michaelantoniewiczii5309 ปีที่แล้ว

    The thing that slides past most people is the reason the cost of 2nd (and later) generation Stealth jumped up so much .. Hungarian mathematicians applying *Common Sense* to the problem...😎

  • @meofamily4
    @meofamily4 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    There's always a tendency to sell complex systems (math, chemistry, physics, biology, etc.) by using mystical images. Having done that, we are tempted to call the result and "explanation." Mystification, however, is not explanation.

  • @AySz88
    @AySz88 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Disappointed that he meant "shape the world" literally. >.> A little bit of playing on fears in there.

  • @fazlyrabby
    @fazlyrabby 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the thing i am dealing is a bit different than you guys , things are becoming so hard for my cse 110 course so pray for me guys

  • @TrentFillmore1
    @TrentFillmore1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Slavin's point is well taken: a red STOP button is not enough control over a system to make it accountable to us.
    After watching Slavin's presentation, I am highly motivated to find a solution. Where no solution presents itself within our core assumptions, our core assumptions should be challenged. In this case, finding a solution requires us to visit deeper abstractions, ones so ingrained in our culture, we don't even see them as cultural. Slavin questions the unmonitored power we give to computers to automatically get us money, but not the idea of getting money without any work itself being a form of usury infinitely worse than profiteering from money-changing or charging interest.
    At least money-changers are doing some work. At least some people see what they are doing as beneficial. The usury Slavin is talking about is disgustingly sicker: taking wealth from society without returning any benefit at all, and without any work, time or thought.
    Completely lost in Slavin's equation is the idea that money is a type of economic system, and that economic systems are supposed to make things more economical: 1) to systemically provide the most benefit for the least amount of work, and 2) to enable their constituents to promote the kind of community they want with their skills and labor.
    Money has no big red STOP button because we have allowed our world's money changers to kill economic systems that are honest, ones that account for real wealth and benefit rather than fraudulently try to store it. Pecuniary economics has become so ingrained, we attempt to find solutions WITHIN an assumption of money, missing the point completely that money itself is a scam, an artificial store of value. No computer system designed to help steal wealth from society via money's deceitful claim to be valuable is going to produce anything beneficial because the foundation it builds everything upon is corrupt, compensating most those who steal rather than produce.
    The machine controlling us goes back millennia, not just a few hundred years in the stock market. Our supposedly superior intelligence has created a dead end for humanity completely at odds with: the economies of all past evolutionary epochs, our ability to transcend any pending singularity, and growth through any future technological abstraction.
    Slavin is right that we are creating monsters HUMANS cannot control, but our computerized monsters DO serve a master, and that master is pecuniary economics, an entrenched scam created near the dawn of recorded history with one purpose in mind: to steal from people who create stuff, to benefit those who do not. THAT is the monster to which we gave birth, and no longer control. While it lives in a monopoly, trying to make its servants accountable to us in any form more complex than STOP is futile.

    • @Sirajkabeer080
      @Sirajkabeer080 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well said.

    • @ms9771
      @ms9771 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      So you have to fight USARY law of Talmud by Jewish law, Wall street , obey Jewish law, USURY , Talmud encourage lending money with interest to none Jews,. But the halakha (Jewish law) that prescribes interest-free loans applies only to loans made to other Jews. so wall street run by Jewish law allows making loans with interest to persons who are not Jewish. now you can see why most rich are Jewish,also hate none Jews have Union to help each other, when those Jews have union, and help each other

  • @bastian-rich
    @bastian-rich 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    everybody should know it

  • @grahamcox3133
    @grahamcox3133 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video! Now let's re-record it with headgear that doesn't make him sound like he has an ounce of bile in his mouth from it rubbing his cheek. C'mon TED!!! where's the sound guy!! seriously though thanks for the vid!!

  • @thesomantics
    @thesomantics 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we've become the Borg if we're terraforming the earth to make our computer algorithms faster. insane.

  • @sinachiniforoosh
    @sinachiniforoosh 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    fucking awesome (excuse my language)

  • @bvashisht9283
    @bvashisht9283 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW

  • @Utspeladfz
    @Utspeladfz 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What I don't understand is why and how they have freed themselves from the human grip and are now working on a unsupervised level. I find this extraordinary, and if it's true what he's saying, that mathematics are working on a level comparable to nature, which we can learn to understand - we have the opportunity to create a nature of our own, through math! And this will revolutionize the very belief that economy is only an idea. I would like to read more of this to understand better!

  • @dqle189
    @dqle189 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    11:25 guy in middle does not enjoy algorithms.

  • @muzamilzaman7463
    @muzamilzaman7463 ปีที่แล้ว

    Algorithm is an idea !!

  • @fidoshock
    @fidoshock 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    lol, coming from kisuke, a soul reaper

  • @chesterchow1
    @chesterchow1 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    His mic is scraping against his stubbly cheek :o

  • @str8todamoney
    @str8todamoney 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can you dumb this video down for me lol I didn't really understand it

  • @future_proof
    @future_proof ปีที่แล้ว

    Slav' to the 'Rithm

  • @mrosters
    @mrosters 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think its the mike rubbing agains his beard hairs...

  • @YousefHamza
    @YousefHamza 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    It will be ironic if the movie was paid , we'll download it off TPB anyways