Can You Trust a Computer Algorithm?

February 11th, 2021

medium.com, Other, 10/02/2021
Artificial intelligence is increasingly creeping into everyday life, from Google searches and matching singles on dating sites to Siri recommendations and detecting credit card fraud. But how much can we trust the computer algorithms that drive it? […] In the paper the result of our collaboration with consumer think-tank Consumer Policy Research Centre as well as the Australian consumer organisation CHOICE and the Data61 division of Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO they ran simulations to test how algorithmic bias arises.