When it was in the news that Youtube had been messed up during the burning of Notre Dame, mixing that up with the 2001 September 11th attacks by the artificial stupidity of an algorithm their search function depends on, I was thinking of writing about it. I'd not long before pointed out the fact that algorithms were operations limited by the limits in thinking that their creators are the embodiment of. Artificial intelligence is not intelligence though it appears it is eminently dupeable, that is probably as close to human thinking as machines will ever get.
I have stopped using Google to do web searches because I'm disturbed by having FOX, the Washington Examiner, and other right-wing to neo-fascist propaganda entities come up at the top of the list of results. Those clearly don't come up as a result of my activity, I don't have time to spend monitoring neo-fascist lies. It's clear Google has been Googlebombed by Republican-fascists or their domestic and foreign allies in the same way Dan Savage pioneered to make "Santorum" a dirty word (Rick did that, himself, but in a different way).
If Google wants me to start using its search engine again, they can fix that. Until it does I would urge everyone to consider using one of the less used search engines that doesn't produce that effect. I'd be happy to continue using Google if they showed any sign of being interested in keeping that from happening.
Amazon tried AI to select job applications worth an interview. Turned out it wad rejecting women at a high rate because.... Amazon had to drop it all together, couldn't fix it.
ReplyDeleteOr the facial recognition tech that "read" black men as angrier than white men, again because....
The old term for this among computer scientists was GIGO: garbage in, garbage out. Machines still aren't intelligent. No more than we are.