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This reads like marketing material shoehorned into a soft-peddled criticism about human rights in order to generate buzz. What stretched my suspension of disbel
by cirgue 7y ago
This reads like marketing material shoehorned into a soft-peddled criticism about human rights in order to generate buzz. What stretched my suspension of disbelief more than anything is that the author seems to think that people use this product in production, which AFAICT, no one really does.
- mcguire 7y ago"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
- elliekelly 7y agoMy company has a feature that uses it in production but I think it's still too soon to tell whether or not it's of any value to customers. We're only using the raw score for the big 5 traits, though. We don't look at any of the "consumer sentiment on Mondays" stuff. It's been a while since I've looked at the docs but IBM seems to be adding new features to Watson all the time. For the most part I think Watson is great but there are definitely some features that deserve a healthy amount of skepticism.
- royapakzad 7y agoThat was not my intention; I added a disclaimer showing that I’m not affiliated. I raised some real human rights concerns; IBM or any third party companies using the tool should take them seriously. The issue is that companies do use these tools, mostly in HR departments; recruiters can attest. Another interesting paper on hiring and algorithmic decision making that you might be interested: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3408010 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3408010
- lowdose 7y agoGood writing! Have you seen this video of Michal Kosinski about the end of privacy? He talks about making inferences about intimate psycho-demographic information from photos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUwBcTgzbtU&t=2468s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUwBcTgzbtU&t=2468s