{"id":8418,"date":"2017-06-15T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8418"},"modified":"2017-06-27T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:19:41","slug":"being-algorithmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/15\/being-algorithmd\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Algorithm’d"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Fox News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

News Corp. CEO: The Almighty Algorithm – “fake news” and other consequences of Google, Amazon and Facebook’s relentless focus on quantity over quality<\/h1>\n

By Robert Thomson<\/p>\n

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Editor’s note: <\/b>These remarks were delivered by the chief executive officer of News Corporation,\u00a0Robert Thomson, during London Tech Week on June 14, 2017.<\/i><\/p>\n

We are here to pay homage to the almighty algorithm.\u00a0 Algorithmic alchemy is redefining our commercial and social experiences, turning base matter into noble metals. But like the alchemists of old, algorithms are also a charlatan\u2019s charter, allowing claims of pure science when human intervention is clearly doctoring results to suit either commercial imperatives or political agendas.<\/p>\n

And there is the enduring contradiction between the claimed sophistication of, say, Google\u2019s ability to target audiences and track tastes for advertisers, and its inability to identify the tasteless, the terroristic, the perverted and the pirated. As the over-alliterative title to this short address suggests, it is profit before provenance and probity. And for journalists, it is penury.<\/p>\n

This s\u00e9ance with science is particularly poignant during one of our periodic phases of fascination with AI, artificial intelligence. \u00a0When is artificial intelligence merely the artifice of intelligence? \u00a0The most telling recent sign of cerebral superiority was Google\u2019s machine-minded triumph in the board game Go<\/i> over a Chinese grand master.\u00a0 Chinese call the game weiqi<\/i>, Japanese call it Go<\/i>. And so we should turn to the sage Japanese author, Yasunari Kawabata, who presciently wrote The Master of Go<\/i> sixty-six years ago.\u00a0 He wrote, \u201dFrom the Way of Go, the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled\u2026One conducted the battle only to win, and there was no margin for remembering the dignity and the fragrance of Go as an art<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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