Not So Standard Deviations Episode 17 - Diurnal High Variance

09 Jun 2016 By Roger Peng

Hilary and I talk about Amazon Echo and Alexa as AI as a service, the COMPAS algorithm, criminal justice forecasts, and whether algorithms can introduce or remove bias (or both).

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Show notes:

• In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future

• Google’s AI won the game Go by defying millennia of basic human instinct

• Machine Bias: There’s Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. And it’s Biased Against Blacks

• ProPublica analysis of COMPAS

• Richard Berk’s Criminal Justice Forecasts of Risk

• Cathy O’Neill’s Weapons of Math Destruction

• I’ll stop calling algorithms racist when you stop anthropomorphizing AI

• RMS Fact package

• Use R! 2016

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