Why Machine Learning is Political with Louise Amoore
The Good Robot
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The Politics of Machine Learning
I wanted to ask you again about the politics of machine learning. And I particularly love kind of non-stem definitions of these processes or descriptions of them. We know that when they're being taught to predict something, this involves continually adjusting the weights in the model until the system is deemed to be good at recognizing something. So can you describe that weighting process and perhaps give an example, if you can, and explain why the choice of weightings is also political? That's such a good question. Yes. This question of the weight to me, it is always both technical and political, right? The weights that we afford to something is about also a question of those things, those voices
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