
#87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Is it a Mistake to Build a Satnav?
I hadn't quite twigged in my mind that 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. That sounds like it's really obvious, but actuly, i've seen lots of people make that mistake repeatedly over the last few years. There are all sorts of stories o people is just blindly following ther ther sat na. My favourite example is, there was a group of japanese tourists in brisbon, and this is a few yars ago. They destroyed the dmathey
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