{"id":2036,"date":"2018-12-19T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2019-03-27T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:55:00","slug":"can-computers-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/19\/can-computers-be-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Computers Be Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wrong-450x250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1978\" src=\"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wrong-450x250-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wrong-450x250-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wrong-450x250.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Computers can only be as right as the people who write the codes and create and input the data.<br \/>\n<em>* By Fiona Soltes *<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Annette Danek, SVP Fulfillment at Penguin Random House, has had the opportunity to learn coding at several different points in her career. Each time, she said, she\u2019s been struck by the amount of power at her fingertips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo the wrong thing, and you can take down the system,\u201d she said with a chuckle. \u201cYou can really make a system great, or you can make a system bad by coding it the wrong way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It begs an interesting question: Human error is always a possibility, but what about the machine? In our age of increasingly artificial intelligence, can a computer be wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Dan Freeman of MHI member Evanhoe &amp; Associates rose to the challenge of offering an answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course,\u201d he said. \u201cComputers can only be as right as the people who define them or create them or create that data.\u201d Computer algorithms will work as they have been told, Freeman said, \u201cbut if the algorithm is wrong, you\u2019re always going to have a wrong answer\u2026 I guess, then, the true answer is that the computer is always right. It was the human that put the information there in the first place that was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), he said, it\u2019s really about the amount and quality of data that\u2019s available. Decisions are made based on historical data, and if there is not enough data available\u2014or the data is not the correct kind\u2014it won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s something else at play, too: \u201cAI is such a broad term, and people use it for everything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings that are really just predictive analytics, people are considering AI, when there\u2019s no machine learning whatsoever. It\u2019s just a human coming up with some algorithms, and trying to predict the future based on the past. 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