Reply to post: I call BS!

Ex-NSA techies launch data governance tool for future algorithm-slavery

Paul Smith

I call BS!

This smells like someone is pulling a fast one.

Even the most modest categorization algorithms produces more branches then can be humanly monitored. You want to know why you have a bad credit rating? It's because the computer says so, that is why.

Decision trees and Bayesian analysis can just about be followed by the person using them, but stay well clear of even the simplest neural network.

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