Perhaps of interest. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 8:31 AM Subject: [Design] Design in the Era of the Algorithm To: design(a)lists.wikimedia.org Josh Clark on design principles for addressing flaws in machine learning. (via waxy.org)\ "The answer machines have an overconfidence problem. It’s not only a data-science problem that the algorithm returns bad conclusions. It’s a problem of presentation: the interface suggests that there’s one true answer, offering it up with a confidence that is unjustified. So this is a design problem, too. The presentation fails to set appropriate expectations or context, and instead presents a bad answer with matter-of-fact assurance. As we learn to present machine-originated content, we face a very hard question: how might we add some productive humility to these interfaces to temper their overconfidence? I have ideas." https://bigmedium.com/speaking/design-in-the-era-of-the-algorithm.html Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

On 17 Jun 2017, at 5:08 am, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: Perhaps of interest. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 8:31 AM Subject: [Design] Design in the Era of the Algorithm To: design(a)lists.wikimedia.org Josh Clark on design principles for addressing flaws in machine learning. (via waxy.org)\ "The answer machines have an overconfidence problem. It’s not only a data-science problem that the algorithm returns bad conclusions. It’s a problem of presentation: the interface suggests that there’s one true answer, offering it up with a confidence that is unjustified. So this is a design problem, too. The presentation fails to set appropriate expectations or context, and instead presents a bad answer with matter-of-fact assurance. As we learn to present machine-originated content, we face a very hard question: how might we add some productive humility to these interfaces to temper their overconfidence? I have ideas." https://bigmedium.com/speaking/design-in-the-era-of-the-algorithm.html Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l