As a team at a major US media company said to me a while ago: ‘well, we know we can use ML to index ten years of video of our talent interviewing athletes – but what do we look for?’
—Benedict Evans, in ‘Ways to think about machine learning‘
Tag: Machine Learning
Big data & price fixing cartels
… as pricing systems become ever more autonomous, aspiring monopolists like Mr Topkins eventually will not even need to speak to their competitors to fix prices.
Computers will do the colluding for them, either by using the same algorithm or learning from their interactions with other machines — all without leaving behind trails of incriminating emails or voicemails.
Policing the digital cartels, by David J Lynch in Financial Times Continue reading Big data & price fixing cartels
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