Monday, December 21, 2020

"Torturing Data".... and, the price of tea in China

 Once again on the all-too-common practice of 'torturing the data':

https://mindmatters.ai/2020/12/torturing-data-can-destroy-a-career-the-case-of-brian-wansink/

"This is one reason why artificial intelligence (AI) is often brittle. AI algorithms can torture data faster than any human and can find an essentially unlimited number of idiosyncrasies that humans might overlook. Computers don’t get tired and they never say no."


 

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