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#87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is It a Mistake to Build a Satnav?

You can't just build an algarithem, put it on a shelf and decide whether you think it's good or bad. You have to think about how that algaritm actually integrates with the world that embedding it in. There are all sorts of stories o people blindly following ther ther sat na. A group of japanese tourists in brisbon didn't realize the satav was essentially telling them to drive out into the ocean em. They carried on driving, thoug they really trusted the machine and thought, awa ill bring us to apart ly. And that eventually had to abandon their veigo, i think, like three hundred meteres out into the ocean....

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