Indistinguishable from prejudice

Joho the Blog 2017-05-18

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” said Arthur C. Clarke famously. It is also the case that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from prejudice. Especially if that technology is machine learning. ML creates algorithms to categorize stuff based upon data sets that we feed it. Say “These million messages are spam, and […]

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davidw

Date tagged:

05/18/2017, 21:52

Date published:

05/18/2017, 17:21