#algorithm

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#Anatomy of an #AI #System

source: https://anatomyof.ai
Chinese source: https://anatomyof.ai/index-cn.html

This is an #interaction with #Amazon’s #Echo device. A brief command and a response is the most common form of engagement with this #consumer voice-enabled AI device. But in this fleeting moment of interaction, a vast #matrix of capacities is invoked: interlaced chains of #resource extraction, human labor and algorithmic processing across networks of mining, logistics, distribution, prediction and optimization. The scale of this system is almost beyond #human imagining. How can we begin to see it, to grasp its immensity and #complexity as a connected form?


#knowledge #technology #science #computer #software #algorithm #future #economy

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#Mozilla #Investigation: #YouTube #Algorithm Recommends Videos that Violate the Platform’s Very Own Policies

Source: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-investigation-youtube-algorithm-recommends-videos-that-violate-the-platforms-very-own-policies/

“YouTube needs to admit their algorithm is designed in a way that harms and misinforms people,” says Brandi Geurkink, Mozilla’s Senior Manager of Advocacy. “Our research confirms that YouTube not only hosts, but actively recommends videos that violate its very own policies. We also now know that people in non-English speaking countries are the most likely to bear the brunt of YouTube’s out-of-control recommendation algorithm.”

#Google #news #problem #internet #hate #misinformation #politics #economy #software

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Fired by #Bot at #Amazon: ‘It’s You Against the #Machine

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turns-to-machine-managers-and-workers-are-losing-out

Amazon knew delegating work to machines would lead to mistakes and damaging headlines, these former managers said, but decided it was cheaper to trust the algorithms than pay people to investigate mistaken firings so long as the drivers could be replaced easily.

Brave new world.

#job #work #algorithm #news #economy #politics #democracy #humanRights #fail #usa #society #finance

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Best Sellers Sell the Best Because They’re Best Sellers

source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/books/penguin-random-house-madeline-mcintosh.html

We have the biggest list of #books, we have access to the most data, so we could have a very accurate view on a daily basis of how #consumer demand was shifting. We could see right away when #people were grabbing the sourdough bread book, or the birding book, or the inspirational #book, or the book that put this moment in the context of #history.

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algorithmic #marketplace that serves up mostly the hits, driving a #cycle so self-fulfilling it’s nearly tautological: Best sellers sell the best because they are best sellers.

Unfortunately, marketing in its profit mania is mentally unable to recognize that in this case only books are written for the #algorithm. Similar to YouTube, where the big ones only produce videos on topics that are currently trending. This leads to a one-size-fits-all approach that kills any creativity and prevents new upcoming creative thinkers from evolving at all. These new thinkers could improve the world, but they have too few followers to be detected by the algorithm.


#market #economy #creativity #news #ai #software #algorithms #marketing #capitalism