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dmt1491 · 3763 days ago · link · · parent · post: If this doesn't terrify you... Google's computers OUTWIT their humans • The Register
google representative says: we're so good we don't even know how good we are. where's the news in this advertisement.?
It's a perspective thing when the algorithms you write out-grow you. Humans (and especially programmers) want to control and predict the things they build. When you don't understand it, weird shit can happen
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Yes - the specific mechanism of the crash was "a bunch of computers operating on non-vetted rules competing for fractions of a penny millions of times per second WHAT COULD GO WRONG?" It wasn't exactly unprecedented, either. Before there was HFT, there was "program trading" which probably caused Black Monday.