Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
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#2I thought we got over "the computer is never wrong" fallacy by the end of the 90s. Anyone involved with computing should know GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out.
Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
#3The replies on the original tweet are pretty good: https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1087627739861897216
Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
#4A fun example... click this and scroll all the way down: https://www.faception.com/our-technology
I need to start collecting a list to turn this into a proper Thing but I feel like whenever there's a way to use technology for evil there's a Tel Aviv startup that cranks it to 11.
Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
#5I'm glad to see a representative actually know things like this. Too many of our representatives are technologically illiterate.
Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
#6The replies on the original tweet are pretty good: https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1087627739861897216
Particularly this reply:
https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1087841319219802113
Which shows that the original criticism of AOC was entirely disingenuous anyway.
Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
#7Of course ML algorithms can be biased; rather than engaging an Internet layperson who tried to contradict AOC with a silly argument, it would be more interesting if the article engaged the more salient counterpoint to claims like these--attempts to eliminate bias can introduce bias as well.
Anyway, the article is not written in good faith; it's only a step above "BOOM AOC owns Internet conservatives!". There's an interesting conversation in here somewhere, but this article seems designed to avoid it.
Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
#8I thought we got over "the computer is never wrong" fallacy by the end of the 90s. Anyone involved with computing should know GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out.
Perhaps. But lots of developers have also heard that premature optimization is the root of all evil. Doesn't mean we don't fall prey to these traps, biases, misconceptions, etc.
Besides that, the rise of the algorithm, like everything else in the US, is subject to interpretation by camps who insist (at their extremes) that racism is real, modern, ubiquitous, and fixable; and those that insist it's a relic of the past, inevitable, imagined, rare.
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#9The replies on the original tweet are pretty good: https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1087627739861897216
Particularly this reply: https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1087841319219802113 Which shows that the original criticism of AOC was entirely disingenuous anyway.
Ryan's tweet should be altogether ignored as the interesting conversation is here: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/108791229700197171...
Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
#10A fun example... click this and scroll all the way down: https://www.faception.com/our-technology I need to start collecting a list to turn this into a proper Thing but I feel like whenever there's a way to use technology for evil there's a Tel Aviv startup that cranks it to 11.
Wait, that's not a parody? Phrenology updated for the 21st century?