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Re:Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? by j2kun on Sunday February 26, 2017 @12:13PM (#13738301)
Or, as it stands today, human decision makers using the output of these algorithms as a signal, without understanding the potential flaws of that signal. "I just did what the computer recommended"

Someone (can't remember who) said it better: "You don't want to be an edge case in this brave new world."

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Re:Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? by ams6110 on Sunday February 26, 2017 @01:23PM (#13738717)
"I was just following orders" the excuse for most of the worst behavior of humans.
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Re:Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? by j2kun on Monday February 27, 2017 @11:46AM (#13745517)
The difference is they have the power to make a decision.
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Re:Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? by narrator on Sunday February 26, 2017 @07:14PM (#13740881)
"Why did the computer recommend that?"

"No one knows, not even the programmers who wrote it! Deep learning is a black box!"

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Re:Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? by jodrellblank on Sunday February 26, 2017 @07:29PM (#13740938)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_That_Won_the_War_(... - Asimov, 1961
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