{"id":4858,"date":"2011-12-18T02:46:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T02:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4858"},"modified":"2011-12-18T03:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T03:00:31","slug":"the-intelligence-of-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4858","title":{"rendered":"The intelligence of algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8211; pet peeve, intelligence of algorithms &amp; humans compared ]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-algorithm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4859\" title=\"SPEC algorithm\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-algorithm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-algorithm.png 612w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-algorithm-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the ad that the algorithm chose to juxtapose<a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2011\/12\/17\/landlord-defends-hanging-white-only-sign-at-duplex-pool\/\"> to a story about some landlord in Ohio<\/a> placing a &#8220;white only&#8221;\u00a0sign on the swimming pool at her duplex. \u00a0Now is that subtle and ironic &#8212; wildly creative and just a bit naughty &#8212; or what?<\/p>\n<p>To my way of thinking, the algorithm is exhibiting about as much smarts and sensitivity as the duplex landlord.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">[\u00a0<em>both images edited to fit the\u00a0<strong>Specs<\/strong>\u00a0format<\/em>\u00a0]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8211; pet peeve, intelligence of algorithms &amp; humans compared ] Note the ad that the algorithm chose to juxtapose to a story about some landlord in Ohio placing a &#8220;white only&#8221;\u00a0sign on the swimming pool at her duplex. \u00a0Now is that subtle and ironic &#8212; wildly creative and just a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,526,454,21,471,436,687,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytic","category-charles-cameron","category-cognitive-goods","category-creativity","category-cultural-intelligence","category-psychology","category-specs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4858"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}