Everything this week is related to AI and ethics.<\/p>\n
Topic 1:<\/p>\n
Follow-up on Episode 33 – AI ethics across cultural boundaries.<\/p>\n
Karl: “China will call it protecting our culture.”<\/p>\n
Ryan said: “Crossing geographic boundaries is one things, but crossing cultural boundaries is another.”<\/p>\n
So, how do we address cultural norms and ethics in a worldwide discussion. Business ethics and laws are different everywhere, yet we practice economic relationships without boundaries.<\/p>\n
What should we be discussing here? We have thoughts.<\/p>\n
Topic 2:<\/p>\n
More ethics. The Wall Street Journal had a long article addressing the fact that Google is messing with search results to fit corporate needs and political biases.<\/p>\n
Google has more than 90% of the worldwide search traffic. They made about 500 changes to their search algorithm in 2010. And about 2400 in 2017, and 3200 in 2018. That’s a lot of changes! Most of them are in response to some kind of request.<\/p>\n
It turns out, Google’s super-secret algorithm favors big companies over small companies; favors eBay and other large advertisers; and favors already-big web sites over lesser-known web sites.<\/p>\n
Google also works hard to crafting “knowledge panels” in order to keep you on their site. AND they change the results of auto-complete in an attempt to be politically correct and less divisive.<\/p>\n
Related Link:
\n https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-google-interferes-with-its-search-algorithms-and-changes-your-results-11573823753<\/a><\/p>\n