At The Guardian, Cathy O'Neil writes about why algorithms can be wrong. She classifies the reasons into four categories on a spectrum ranging from unintential errors to outright malfeasance. As algorithms now make a large portion of the decisions affecting our lives, scrutiny is ever more important and she provides multiple examples in each category of their impact.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @02:42AM
. algorithms are made by these people, that means garbage in garbage out if the people that write them are garbage which they generally are the output is also garbage.