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.
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