Comment on Racism is Poisoning Online Ad Delivery, Says Harvard ProfessorComments−jessaustin13yIf the algorithms behind Adsense can reason about maximising [sic] revenues, [Sweeney] says they ought to be able to reason about the legal and social consequences of certain patter[n]s of click-throughs.What?!? Does not follow!−yid13yDoesn't follow because Adsense isn't "reasoning", it's optimizing an ill-defined objective function. Optimization isn't the same as reasoning.
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If the algorithms behind Adsense can reason about maximising [sic] revenues, [Sweeney] says they ought to be able to reason about the legal and social consequences of certain patter[n]s of click-throughs.
What?!? Does not follow!
Doesn't follow because Adsense isn't "reasoning", it's optimizing an ill-defined objective function. Optimization isn't the same as reasoning.