Artificial Unintelligence Quotes

“I heard people repeat the same promises about the bright technological future, but I saw the digital world replicate the inequalities of the “real” world”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“(To think like a computer programmer, it helps to be lazy.)”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“no statistical prediction can or will ever be 100 percent accurate -- because human beings are not and never will be statistics.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence

“The problems are hidden inside code and data, which makes them harder to see and easier to ignore.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“Reasonable, smart people disagree about what will happen in the future—in part because nobody can see the future.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“In CS, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible,” reads the caption.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“We tend to assume that when people are experts at one thing, their expertise extends to other areas as well.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“code is prioritized above human interactions.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“Disciplines like math, engineering, and computer science pardon a whole host of antisocial behaviors because the perpetrators are geniuses.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“All these assistants are given female names and default identities by tech executives and developers—no accident. “I think that probably reflects what some men think about women—that they’re not fully human beings,”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“standardized tests are not based on general knowledge. As I learned during my investigation, they are based on specific knowledge contained in specific sets of books: the textbooks created by the test makers.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“As computing became a highly paid profession, women were also edged out. It was the result of deliberate choices.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“Human expertise is too complex to be represented in a simple binary system”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“There’s a name for systems like this that include humans: human-in-the-loop systems.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“You need to build in human effort for the edge cases, or they won’t get done.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“In real life, weird stuff happens all the time.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“these engineers turned the real world into a video game and navigated the car through it.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“would go through a decision tree to decide what to do: if it is a living thing like a person or a dog, slow down; if it is a living thing like a bird, it will probably move out of the way, so no need to slow down.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“Because social decisions are about more than just calculations, problems will always ensue if we use data alone to make decisions that involve social and value judgments.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“a principle called the unreasonable effectiveness of data.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“no statistical prediction can or will ever be 100 percent accurate—because human beings are not and never will be statistics.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“Here’s an open secret of the big data world: all data is dirty. All of it.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“Kaggle.16 Kaggle, which is owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet,”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“A wonderful explanation of models is found in Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“The term machine learning entered the lexicon in 1959, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“Django, a web framework, is named after Django Reinhardt the jazz guitarist,”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“HitchBOT made it as far as Philadelphia, where the doll was dismembered and left in a dark alley.4”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“This naïveté about the inevitable problems that arise when people use new gadgets shows up again and again in tech culture.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“Even the best data-collection system is useless if there are no people available to manage it.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“Using a journalist’s skepticism about what can go wrong can help us move from blind technological optimism to a more reasonable, balanced perspective”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World