The biggest problem with “human intelligence” is that our memory is so short and influenced by emotion. Though judging by the amount of data created and lost over the last decade, that’s probably true of computers too.
But is emotion bad? Emotions can be thought of as programmed biases, and we might have evolved them because they are collectively good for the species. Emotion is what caused many of the examples stated in this thread where a human made a better decision than a computer.
I don't think emotion on its own is bad or good; but it's not something that a computer can emulate. You may get better decisions in some scenarios with certain stakeholders, and worse decisions in other scenarios.
When we talk about "programmed bias", we need to be careful because different subsets of the population hold different bias -- so the bias programmed in is reflective of the experiences of the team that developed the software rather than the population of users it affects.
raz32dust|6 years ago
exelius|6 years ago
When we talk about "programmed bias", we need to be careful because different subsets of the population hold different bias -- so the bias programmed in is reflective of the experiences of the team that developed the software rather than the population of users it affects.