Ryan Burns, PhD, FRCGS
burnsr77.bsky.social
Ryan Burns, PhD, FRCGS
@burnsr77.bsky.social
AAAS S&TPF fellow, FRCGS, visiting prof @ Erlangen-Nuremberg

Critical digital geographer, urban STS, runner, reader, writer, drinker of unhealthy amounts of tea
If you have heard that AI, apps, and platforms will make your cities better, here's my latest critique of yhat idea: theconversation.com/why-canadas-...
December 5, 2023 at 11:26 PM
For my first 🟦☁️ post, I want to highlight the limits of one of the most powerful analogies in tech circles today, thanks to the brilliant Dr. Birhane
the problem is "garbage in..." analogy is that, it assumes that if training data is somehow "good", the tool could work too. however, no matter how clean, representative the data is, you simply cannot build a system that detects "pedophile" because it is not a phenomena that can be read off faces
Say it with me!

Garbage In Garbage Out
November 10, 2023 at 2:44 AM