Are algorithms the new uncanny valey? My prediction for 2014 for @NiemanLab.http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/12/the-year-we-get-creeped-out-by-algorithms/ …
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Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@NiemanLab But virtually every decision humans have to make has "no right answer". Even a "shortest" path http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/12/the-year-we-get-creeped-out-by-algorithms/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @dancow
@dancow@NiemanLab Exactly. That's the human condition. Turn it over to computing and you introduce all sorts of different issues.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@NiemanLab I definitely do think people have to be aware that everything is being filtered. Nothing is just neutral.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @dancow
@dancow@NiemanLab It knows all sorts of minutia but thinks Toronto is in the United States. It's not the same as humans.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@NiemanLab Hmmm...you sure humans, in general, know that Toronto is not in the United States? :)2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @dancow
@dancow@NiemanLab Machines have different issues. Different biases. Different error routes. Their stack overflows in their own way.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@dancow@NiemanLab We haven't figured out--or even thought about--what it means to turn over judgement calls to these different systems.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@dancow@niemanlab I take issue with the claim we haven't thought at *all* about them. This is literally the topic of a lot of scifi1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@knowtheory @dancow @NiemanLab Yeah, which I read. But no we haven't thought about them in the concrete, as they actually are now.
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