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If I'd had my way the title of https://t.co/vyPtd6HsjE would have been this meme.
Our case study found that in all cases where QCNNs work (i.e. train and generalize) - they're possible to classically simulate.
We set it as a challenge to the community to prove us wrong.... See more
Relying on creatives or niche experts (e.g., wine or book editors) is not a novel concept, though I do think we’re leaning on them more heavily as an antidote to algorithmic recommendations, and I know they’re working harder to produce differentiated suggestions.
Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
I think there are three algorithms that have reshaped the American press in ways that we are just now starting to confront. You have Google and Facebook, which can serve up this incredible fire hose of traffic to publishers so long as they cater to the ever-shifting whims of that algorithm.
Alex Kantrowitz • Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton
While we often think of terms such as “big data” and “algorithms” as being benign, neutral, or objective, they are anything but. The people who make these decisions hold all types of values, many of which openly promote racism, sexism, and false notions of meritocracy, which is well documented in studies of Silicon Valley and other tech corridors.
Safiya Umoja Noble • Algorithms of Oppression
IBM, for example, managed to fix the problem of poor gender identification that Joy Buolamwini discovered by building a new training set with more pictures of black women. Google solved its gorilla challenge in the opposite way: by removing pictures of gorillas from the training set. Neither solution is general; both are instead hacks, designed to
... See moreErnest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
But the catch was that this was never a sustainable long-term strategy, at least not for the purposes of promoting an open ecosystem. User-generated data is vulnerable to a family of sub optimizations such as Goodhart’s Law, in which using a “measure” as a “metric” devalues the measure itself. If you’re Google building PageRank on natural weblinks... See more