Google Tweaks Email Program That Assumed An Investor Was Male
November 28, 2018
However, these blunders are not entirely the fault of the algorithm’s programmers and blame can honestly be assigned to the algorithm itself, according to Christian Sandvig, a professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, who spoke to NPR in 2016.¶¶”The systems are of a sufficient complexity that it is possible to say the algorithm did it,” he says. “And it’s actually true — the algorithm is sufficiently complicated, and it’s changing in real time. It’s writing its own rules on the basis of data and input that it does do things and we’re often surprised by them.”