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As described by Martin Kleppmann at the end of his great book, big data analytics, when used without proper regulation, creates a downward spiral. Western world
by polskibus 9y ago
As described by Martin Kleppmann at the end of his great book, big data analytics, when used without proper regulation, creates a downward spiral. Western world enforced rules against discrimination based on sex, race, etc., yet everyone seems fine when it's the algorithm spotting and executing on the biases, which statistically are fine, but nevertheless, may be wrong in many individual cases.
- visarga 9y agoYou're spot on. They are just using biases to sentence people to brainwashing camps.
- smogcutter 9y agoMaciej Ceglowski on this: "machine learning is like money laundering for bias." http://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm
- ghostcluster 9y agothe problem is 'bias' is often based on a model that is statistically and operationally accurate, but unfair from a higher order social moral framework. a sufficiently layered net will pick up second and third order consequential effects that are not formally protected by anti-bias laws, but end up effectively mapping onto the sorts of people in categories the laws were intended to protect. that's the fundamental problem as I see it, and it's necessarily complicated and nuanced.