SHOCKED. I am SHOCKED that a company full of biased people who don't think they're biased wrote a biased algorithm.https://twitter.com/danieljkelley/status/1161261463530614784 …
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I feel like we need a different word for these ML systems, other than “algorithm”. A giant matrix multiplication of thousands of (essentially) arbitrary factors is not an algorithm, in any useful sense.
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So a term for algorithm+data? Because it's just as easy to run the algorithm over the top 1000 most followed PoC on Twitter as whatever dataset they used. It's a biased predictor whatever the source material, but it's much easier to reinforce cultural biases than challenge them
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In Code 46 they call it 'the Sphinx'
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Algorithm is literally the wrong word for these systems because a proper "algorithm" has no bias*. But the way we use "algorithm" informally to mean "model" there is lots of inherent bias. https://twitter.com/mycoliza/status/1161804982137556994 … * This is a can of worms, choosing an algorithm can produce bias
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Neural networks are history's most expensive way of taking a random number generator and turning it in to a mostly-random number generator.
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