ART 12B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Strum, Experimental Music
Art 12B 5.7.2018
The Ea of Blid Faith i Big Data Must ed | Cathy O’Neil Ted Talk
⚫ Algorithms:
➢ They keep us fo seeig algoiths eause it’s ath ad e o’t udestad it ad e
should just tust the ath.
➢ Algorithms can go wrong and have deeply destructive effects without intentions. Badly
designed algorithms can go on for a long time wreaking havoc without anyone knowing.
➢ Washington teaching algorithm:
➢ Fox News replaced their hiring process with a hiring algorithm: the algorithm would look past
women because they do not look like what the data currently has as successful people.
➢ They do’t ake thigs fai, they autoate the status uo y epeatig past pattes.
Weapons of Mass Destruction—private companies, building private companies, for private
ends.
➢ The free market cannot solve this program because there is money to be made off of
unfairness. Sociologists have also proved that we cannot make it equal because we are all
biased and racist in ways and we inject that into these algorithms.
⚫ Algorithm Audit:
➢ Data Integrity Check: blacks are 4-5 times more likely to be arrested for pot possession
➢ The Definition of Success Check
➢ Accuracy: consider the errors of every algorithm and for whom does the model fail? What is
the cost of that failure?
➢ Consider the feedback loops we engineer.
⚫ How to Lie with Statistics: you can prove anything with the right manipulation of data.
Music Development here at UCI
⚫ Interested in a sensor attached to the body and how it can be used to make music. The project they
made was about breakups and heartbreak. Here they use the sensors to manipulate the regular
singing of the musician—it is live manipulation of data.
⚫ The problem is not that the technology does not exist (that was the problem 20 years ago), the
problem now is to make sense of it. We do’t hae the kid of ituitie udestadig aout
movements and electronics because it is all arbitrary (unlike how we understand a strong strum of a
guitar produces a strong sound and a soft strum makes a soft sound).
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