This is easy to believe, from the story linked at the bottom of this post. ““I strongly suspect this is not the first case to misidentify someone to arrest them for a crime they didn’t commit. This is just the first time we know about it.”” The thing is, there are still way too many…
I think, statistically speaking, there’s no way that it won’t. I’m listening to a recent episode of Seth Godin’s podcast entitled Sample Size http://aca.st/0d21e1. Go listen to it, really. What struck me from some of the examples that he gave, especially when talking about the football prediction sites, is that as we collect more and…
I’ve held this opinion for awhile, that no matter what Facebook does, there’s no way it’s going to be able to deal with the scope of fake news, harassment, etc. that rolls through their platform every day. (Or any other social media company.) Anything they do simply won’t scale. Let’s take fact-checking, for example: What…
What do we know about human nature, especially teenagers? Once they understand how an algorithm works, they’ll start messing with it. “Teenagers are using group accounts to flood Instagram with random user data that can’t be tied to a single person.” It certainly creates confusion for the algorithms in terms of what you might want…
I would tend to agree with this statement, because it all started with the algorithm, the point where all of these platforms took it upon themselves to decide what to show you. ““The more extensive you make the guidelines, the more selectively you enforce them, the more discretion you start to exercise over your platform,…
As smart as we think AI is, and as much as we assume that the Silicon Valley companies know about us, there are times when I look at the results of one of their algorithms and I’m left a little dumbfounded by an obvious issue. Last year I noted that it was silly to show…