“Designing an algorithm for use in the criminal justice system demands that we sit down and think hard about exactly what the justice system is for.
Following the themes allows Fry to draw separate examples together, building from clear-cut failures and successes to ambiguous situations that challenge us to weigh up the consequences of building algorithms to answer questions which don’t have perfect answers. The other two principles are first that all systems, whether human-led or machine-led, are flawed, and second that algorithms and humans working together creates a better future than either rejecting algorithms or replacing humans with algorithms.įry splits the book into societal themes, such as “Medicine” and “Justice”, rather than basing chapters on technical details, which reinforces her aim of focusing on how these technologies affect us rather than just what they are. This example lays out one of the three principles which run through the book – that we often blindly trust algorithms because we see them as infallible machines rather than instructions written by other humans. Deep Blue couldn’t play mind games, but the programmers understood human reactions well enough to make Deep Blue seem like it could, which threw Kasparov off his game.
The engineers who programmed Deep Blue’s algorithm tactically let it appear hesitant. Fry shows how Kasparov’s shock defeat wasn’t caused by Deep Blue’s mechanical power, but by how Kasparov interpreted and reacted to the computer’s actions. Hello World opens with the famous chess battle between grandmaster Kasparov and Deep Blue. I received Hello World for Christmas along with a few other books, and it was my favourite of the set … I actually abandoned one of the other books part-way through as this one was so much more appealing.
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