Does my algorithm have a mental-health problem?

Does my algorithm have a mental-health problem?

  • March 26, 2018
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Does my algorithm have a mental-health problem?

Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had a pain in all the diodes down his left-hand side.

Is that how my toaster feels?

Source: aeon.co

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