Let’s fully trust the algorithm shall we?

How many times has Facebooks ‘people you may know’ actually been correct?

Out of the 70 plus people it feeds you daily, how many of those do you really know? Some are old acquaintances that you don’t want to reconnect with, some are there because someone you knew has had their mobile number recycled so you clearly DO NOT know that person? How many of those people do you really want in your intimate circle?

This is why human judgment is crucial in the age of AI. It’s trained on past human experiences/knowledge, responding to the present in the absence of the subtleties that make us human.

I see some are abandoning creative input in the favour of data, idolising the cold hard facts. People try a bit too hard to quantity, commodify and replicate creativity through its polar opposite: numbers, patterns and data sets.

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