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No Sir. Algos are bad. they inherently carry a huge risk to accentuate the biases of the datasets from which algos were created. I always get mad when people su
by naijaboiler 2y ago
No Sir. Algos are bad. they inherently carry a huge risk to accentuate the biases of the datasets from which algos were created. I always get mad when people suggest algos are neutral or objective. they are neither.
They are often just tools to perpetuate inequities in plain site.
- lurk2 2y ago> Algos are bad. they inherently carry a huge risk to accentuate the biases of the datasets from which algos were created. They do not do this “inherently.” They don’t do it at all if they don’t have or create a feedback mechanism.
- whatever1 2y agoOn the contrary algorithms should be relying on feedback and adapt if the underlying assumptions do not hold anymore. Problem is we have not automated the process of identifying and updating the assumptions for a given problem.