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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by snowwrestler on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:17PM (#28013998)
ML systems don’t make decisions.

I feel like a lot of comments about what ML will do start with a misunderstanding of what ML actually is.

Saying ML will make a CEO’s decisions is like saying Excel will make CEO’s decisions. Neither is anything more than a system for keeping track of correlations.

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by tomrod on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:46PM (#28014149)
ML models don't make decisions, but there certainly are ML systems, within which are ML models embedded with data flows, business logic, etc., which make "decisions" or "adjudications" or "classifications" or whatever term you are trying to avoid here.
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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by foobiekr on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:53AM (#28015648)
Neither do most CEOs. What they do is best guess which fully evaluated option for (d)investment they like better based on gut feel. Most business-oriented decisions are basically stack ranking the options presented.
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