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zingaryesterday at 9:39 PM1 replyview on HN

“Computers don’t argue” seemed charmingly wrong about how computers work until a few short years ago.

https://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/classes/ecs153-2019-04/readings/c...


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layer8yesterday at 9:48 PM

This quote from a 1979 IBM training manual remains applicable:

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

(https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-decision-making-where-...)