Runaway

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Runaway
Wendy M. Grossman, net.wars, 2019/12/27
This is a good article despite the garish formatting (if you use Firefox you'll want to use the Just Read extension for this one). The main point of the article is that "we don't really know which patterns machine learning algorithms identify as significant." That's because the patterns aren't expressed as rules, and differences that have no meaning to us - changing a few pixels, say - may have a significant impact on the outcome. More...