Ambushed by an algorithm
Aug 19, 2020
2 minutes
THE Government has been ambushed by an algorithm. The unfortunate Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, wants us to believe this year’s A-level results are fair and reasonable because they are ‘moderated’ by Artificial Intelligence (AI) instead of by human beings. But AI is simply a mathematical mechanism, entirely dependent on the information that’s fed into it.
The old adage ‘garbage in,
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