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An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

In the late 1970s (I was a kid) the computer is always right was a common sarcastic parody of all the people who actually believed it.

We'd discover in the 1980s it was possible to have missing data, insufficient data or erroneous data.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a sentiment at least as old as the first things that we now call computers.

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

—Charles Babbage

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

As if humans can magically make correct decisions with incorrect information lmao. So true.