The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162107   Message #3856712
Posted By: Mr Red
23-May-17 - 07:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Who shares your exact birthday ?
Subject: RE: BS: Who shares your exact birthday ?
It may do but it has to work out the connections, and make sense.
Algorithms don't make sense they make correlations.

In the UK we get "Ted Radio Hour" probably weeks/months it is broadcast on NPR.

The most recent one was on the subject of Data and the comment was that algorithms are handling data and making complex correlations that no human can ever encompass in one brain. But those correlations cannot be checked independently.

Which is fine if it means we are bombarded with adverts for stuff (& nonsense). But politicians are spouting as if it is true, and governments are forging policies on the back of it.

We can't spot the one(s) that miss crucial context. And there is plenty of talk of algorithm bias, because it takes data collected by humans, who couldn't possibly be biased!

I delight in giving the systems false leads. Goggle has me down as an anarchist obviously.