Tom Eastman on Twitter: "Neural networks are history's most expensive way of taking a random number generator and turning it in to a mostly-random number generator.… https://t.co/PyfT4hPCUv"

I write words that control computers to tell other computers to build FAKE computers that run on DIFFERENT computers.

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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 …

Daniel Kelley @danieljkelley

"One of the algorithms incorrectly flagged 46% of inoffensive tweets by African American authors as offensive. Tests on bigger datasets, found that posts by African American authors were 1.5 times more likely to be labelled as offensive. " https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614144/googles-algorithm-for-detecting-hate-speech-looks-racially-biased/?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=75630474&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8zq4niBObVH51plBAjL7z9Z8PqtWQwXhTH9V2OGzI07kfpveDasz4uHhtTP4iRvLB1C9bsg7Y1IEJObPX4RaiR3bzu6Q&_hsmi=75630474 …

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