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These same algorithms run in our brains with far more flawed edge cases than big data. Not that I am defending blind use of "algorithms," but that word is a boo

• rainbowmverse 9y ago
  That's why it's important to make sure people with significant variety in their backgrounds are involved in the process. Otherwise you run into situations where, for example, a team of designers doesn't discover their motion activated soap dispenser doesn't work on people with dark skin until after it's been produced, sold, and used.
• panic 9y ago
  We can talk about our decisions, explain them, and revise them if someone convinces us we're wrong. That's very different from a system that only outputs a vector of probabilities.
• sidlls 9y ago
  No, "these same algorithms" don't "run in our brains". Our brains produce thoughts in ways that we don't even have the slightest understanding of. We have conjecture and some observations (e.g. electric signal monitors) that only scratch the surface of describing what the end result of a "thought" looks like. The comparison of how humans think and human intellect in general with poorly understood applied computational statistics really has gone too far. Now, if you mean to say that humans themselves have biases and "wrong" behavior, that's a different matter.