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There is some of that, but in general I get the opposite impression. People are extremely resistant to machine learning. They don't trust it. It's actually a ph
by Houshalter 10y ago
There is some of that, but in general I get the opposite impression. People are extremely resistant to machine learning. They don't trust it. It's actually a phenomenon studied in psychology called algorithm aversion: https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/mktg/assets/File/Dietvorst%20Simmons%20&%20Massey%202014.pdf https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/mktg/assets/File/Dietvor...
There is a paper I was just reading here (https://meehl.dl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/167grovemeehlclinstix.pdf https://meehl.dl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/167grovemee...) where the author surveyed the literature for all the comparisons he could find of human experts and statistical methods. In all but a few cases the algorithmic methods did better. Most of these were crude, simple models, using only a few features. Most of them are before the age of computers and were calculated on pencil and paper. And yet they still generally outperform human intuition, which is just terrible and barely better than chance.
Yet in most the industries where algorithms were shown to do better than humans decades ago, did not switch to the algorithms.