Re:Simple questions to help reduce AI hype
by vonnik on Saturday July 09, 2016 @10:33PM
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I agree with you about redlining. I hadn't really thought about that... A recent scandal involving a predictive analytics firm called Northpointe shows how stupidly people use algorithms, and how much they are abused when there is no transparency: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
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Re:Simple questions to help reduce AI hype
by yummyfajitas on Saturday July 09, 2016 @11:56PM
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The scandal is that propublica wrote a story which directly contradicts their own statistical analysis. Their analysis was unable to show statistically significant bias (and had other flaws that might be genuine mistakes - no multiple comparison correction, possible misinterpretation of the model).
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/propublica_is_lying....
In fact, their r-script suggests that the secret algorithm is probably reducing racism relative to whatever secret algorithm human judges would use.