Tuesday, September 06, 2011
"When algorithms control the world"
If you understand algorithms, this will likely ring true to you.
If you don't, consider how a "typo" can change the entire meaning of something.
Now you have it...
If you don't, consider how a "typo" can change the entire meaning of something.
Now you have it...
Jane Wakefield recently wrote about it in the U.K. BBC News:
"At last month's TEDGlobal conference, algorithm expert Kevin Slavin delivered one of the tech show's most 'sit up and take notice' speeches where he warned that the 'maths that computers use to decide stuff' was infiltrating every aspect of our lives.
Among the examples he cited were a robo-cleaner that maps out the best way to do housework, and the online trading algorithms that are increasingly controlling Wall Street.
'We are writing these things that we can no longer read,' warned Mr Slavin.
'We've rendered something illegible. And we've lost the sense of what's actually happening in this world we've made.'"
