The Future of Algorithms: Whose Bias Is It Anyway?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Algorithms are buzzing all around us, but exactly what and where are they – and how will they continue to impact each of us – for good or not so good? The Buzz 1: “Algorithm: Word used by programmers when they don’t want to explain what they did.” (Book title on amazon.com) The Buzz 2: “The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.” (Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org) The Buzz 3: An algorithm is a set of step-by-step procedures, or a set of rules to follow, for completing a specific task or solving a particular problem. The word ‘algorithm’ was first coined in the 9th century by a Persian mathematician whose latinized name was 'Algoritmi'. Today…algorithms determine the people we meet on Tinder, recognize your face to open the keyless door or fire you from your job when your productivity drops.” (towardsdatascience.com) The Buzz 4: “Human-sourced bias inevitably creeps into AI models, and as a result, algorithms reinforce human prejudices…Google Images search for 'CEO' produced 11 percent women, even though 27 percent of United States chief executives are women. We’ll ask Jim Sterne, Drew Ianni, Jason Shepherd and Eric Simone for their take on “The Future of Algorithms: Whose Bias Is It Anyway?” Thank you to today's sponsor: www.nordvpn.com/TechRev

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.3	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:27.4	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.9	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.3	Woo-hoo, Bonnie D. in the house.
0:37.8	Happy to be here.
0:38.6	Have we got a hot topic for you today?
0:40.5	I might even say it's a hot potato,
0:42.4	but we're going to be careful how we handle that hot potato.
0:45.2	Very happy to be here.
0:46.7	It's February 1, 16th, 2020.
0:49.5	Thank you to Ryan Treasure, the voice of my intro.
0:51.9	He's the executive VP of broadcast operations of
0:55.0	Voice America Radio. We're talking about algorithms today. Oh my. I have three esteemed
0:59.9	guests. We're going to share their predictions and see what we all come up with in terms of
1:04.7	here's the topic, the future of algorithms and AI. Whose bias is it anyway? Oh my. Let me give you a little background here.
1:13.6	We all know algorithms are buzzing all around us. You may not know that, but it's true.
1:17.5	But exactly what are they? Where are they? And how will they continue to impact each of us for good,
1:23.8	for not so good, or even for really bad? There I said it. We might get into some judgments here.
1:29.3	Number one buzz from Amazon. There's a book called words used by programmers when they don't want
1:34.9	to explain what they did. And what's the word? Algorithm. That's the title of the book. I was
1:41.3	surprised to see that. Now I have a quote from toward datascience.com.
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