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ben_wyesterday at 7:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yes, repeatedly, since well before this particular AI summer.

One previous attempt at AI was "expert systems", and while the term fell out of use it's functionally about the same as basically all modern business systems, and doing that wrong led to a lot of people being prosecuted for crimes they didn't commit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

If you insist on learning systems, all AB testing counts, and from that we get meta making their products into hyper-stimuli for vulnerable teens: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/meta-meta-...

Even without that lawsuit, there have been various concerns that "the algorithm" (of Twitter/X, FB, Instagram, YouTube, Google, everyone) has propagandising biases that damage society. I don't know how to sift fact from politicking with that.


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evrydayhustlingyesterday at 10:09 PM

Horizon was accounting software - where is the connection to expert systems?

Sounds like corporations can have bad motivations, and can make bad software - no AI required.

pikeryesterday at 9:57 PM

Like, is all of statistics just basically AI, or is there a meaningful difference?