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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."



"I was just following orders" the excuse for most of the worst behavior of humans.


The difference is they have the power to make a decision.


"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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