Re:Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by sayi...
by smt88 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:31AM
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I think you're making a semantic argument that redefines "human judgment" to such a broad definition that this entire discussion becomes meaningless.
To pull it back a bit, "human judgment" in my usage meant "input processed by human using a brain" and algorithm meant "input processed by machine".
Given those premises, the argument that "algorithms are human judgment" is untrue both by definition and by observation.
For example, when I ask Google/Siri/Alexa a question like, "What is the best way to set up my router?", I will get a wildly different answer than if I ask a GeekSquad employee.
Algorithms are human judgement.
In a strict code sense an algorithm is a way of encoding a set of assumptions that you decide on when you're developing the code to run it. Even in unsupervised machine learning an algorithm is the result of human judgement because someone decided to delegate the decision making process to a machine.
Every time a computer makes a judgement call there is a human who is responsible, and should be accountable, for that process existing.