Cracking Open Black Boxes
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society
English - January 27, 2020 18:38 - 18 minutes - 11.6 MB - ★★★★ - 10 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Technology mathematical moments Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Algorithms can be very useful, but lately, with so much data being created and shared, and with the increase in their use in critical areas such as hiring, credit, and health care, algorithms are under intense scrutiny about their fairness. People experience the effects of an algorithm's conclusion, but the data and steps that form the basis for that conclusion are frequently hidden from them (as if inside a black box). Cathy O'Neil talks about the unfairness of most predictive algorithms.