The Constitution of Algorithms : Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating

A laboratory study that investigates how algorithms come into existence. Algorithms-often associated with the terms big data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence-underlie the technologies we use every day, and disputes over the consequences, actual or potential, of new algorithms arise regu...

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Autor principal: Jaton, Florian (auth)
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Publicado em: Cambridge The MIT Press 2021
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