Who Controls Your Facebook Feed
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/cover_story/2016/01/how_facebook_s_news_feed_algorithm_works.html
"Sometimes" isn't the success rate you might expect for such a
vaunted and feared bit of code. The news feed algorithm's
outsize influence has given rise to a strand of criticism that
treats it as if it possessed a mind of its own--as if it were
some runic form of intelligence, loosed on the world to pursue
ends beyond the ken of human understanding. At a time when
Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants increasingly filter our
choices and guide our decisions through machine-learning
software, when tech titans like Elon Musk and scientific
laureates like Stephen Hawking are warning of the existential
threat posed by A.I., the word itself--algorithm--has begun to
take on an eerie affect. Algorithms, in the popular imagination,
are mysterious, powerful entities that stand for all the ways
technology and modernity both serve our every desire and
threaten the values we hold dear.
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently
doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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