Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claims that algorithms, which are driven by math, are racist
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Hi, I'm a software engineer with over 20 years of experience, and I'm here to tell you that is 100% correct. Algorithms are written by humans, trained on data provided by humans, and are therefore subject to the biases of the human.
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Software writing, which is written by humans, can be tainted and flawed and then the machine runs with it making it worse. So is actually, unsurprisingly, correct.
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I'm starting to believe that everything is racist if she doesn't understand it. Such as math. Or history. Or America.
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I've heard a lot of people also recently say algorithms are politically biased.
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Alexandria is correct, and the vídeo makes her arguments crystal clear. Algorithms are built by people, and it is totally possible that we (humans) create robots that perpetuate our biases. It happens EVERY DAY. Ex. propublica.org/article/machin
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Good god you’re dumb. What she’s saying is 100% correct and a noted problem in training data in machine learning, because training data comes from humans.
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I mean come the fuck on
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