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An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her. (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

It's a sentiment at least as old as the first things that we now call computers.

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

—Charles Babbage

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

As if humans can magically make correct decisions with incorrect information lmao. So true.

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