discover the i. subscribe to the documentary on you tube. this special edition of shift we explore how algorithms influence our minds. algorithms have been around for a long time but in the age of big data and digitalisation they're becoming ever more important and powerful are we letting algorithms think for us. algorithms. that's actually quite simple an algorithm is a clear process or set of rules to follow to solve a problem assembly instructions for example step by step they tell us what to do if

we follow them we should achieve the desired result assuming the instructions are good but that's another story. algorithms have probably existed for as long as people could think the convert sample the algorithm for computing square roots known as herons method was known to the babylonians because. so mathematical algorithms were already known and ancient times one famous example is but the grossest there it states that in a right angled triangle the square of the hotness is equal to the sum of the squares of the other 2 sides in other words a squared plus b. squared equals c. squared. so if you know the length of 2 sides you can work out the length of the other. but where does the word algorithm come from it's named after me a persian scholar. basically

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these prejudiced algorithms. for example.

a study by a us university. says algorithms. because they're programmed by humans. or. translation software. picture from large image databases here you find more pictures of women in the kitchen. to associate women with kitchens changing that is time

consuming. the coding is often top secret so it's difficult to prove an algorithm is prejudiced. or discrimination. it simulates fake accounts that are identical in everything but gender. accountability transparency and fairness are really the future of machine learning and we need to make them trustworthy and we need to you know allow people to ask questions about how they work and allow people to see how they're operating and how they're trained . to eliminate prejudice and algorithms it will take more social awareness and human intervention. for a long time it was considered an impossible task sequencing the wheat genome but now an international research team has done just that with the help of algorithms.

that. over 200 researchers from 20 countries work together to discover bread wheats d.n.a. in science magazine they reported how they were able to sequence over 100000 genes has 5 times more genes than humans so the researchers developed special algorithms to help them. mio informative manuel took part in the project. he lets me on in recent years new algorithms were developed specially to piece together the different fragments of the genomes they really help us to create a coherent sequence out of this huge pile of puzzle pieces strains according the researchers hope this will help them breathe new week for ideas that are more resistant to climate change. and possibly have to make it more adaptable to different climatic conditions for example longer periods of drought and possibly longer periods of heavy rain as well. along with the rice we just consider the world's most important foodstuff experts warn that we must increase if

we're to satisfy the hunger of earth's growing population. the sequencing of the bread we genome is a major step in that direction. confound the rhythms predict the next best seller. a startup hopes to use its software to help publishers fish out the most promising many scripts in a matter of seconds. what novels will fly off the bookstore shelves and which ones won't. a piece of software named qualification is supposed to be able to predict which manuscript will become the next best seller. and the idea came from hearing from many publishers and authors too that much of a huge amount of material that submitted each year in germany doesn't even get read . simply because it would take too many people to do so.

the ai software rates stories according to their sales potential using 100000 books in their sales figures the program learned to recognize a best seller sentence by sentence test readers fed it with successful novels and rated them. the criteria including sentence length suspense book happy larry and emotions. we take a books and divide it into its literary components we explore what kind of themes the work uses a 100 what is its dramatic arc what style of language are constellation of characters employed in and from home and using all these characteristics we make a final rating. several publishers are currently testing the software including small hamburg based publisher vaca its director and one editor regularly wade through mountains of manuscripts and say we get sent 100 manuscripts you can be pretty sure that a lot of these can be filtered out because they're not suitable for

a formal reason i'll say. if the software manages to filter out that 10 to 20 percent and that would be a great help. but after that separating the wheat from the chaff it's really all about the little details. ror says people will always be needed to work closely with the authors. many in the publishing business are critical of the software including kissed and primus who's worked as a book editor for 25 years. then. if lots of publishers start using it i fear there will be a more mass market literature released more things that cater to the mass market. i must lock and that's happening already but i'm afraid it will only get worse and that really innovative different and surprising works will fall by the wayside. how said the founder say fears that the book market could become less diversified are

unfounded. beguiled me i'm getting tired especially think the opposite is true it will likely lead to more diversity because publishers have the opportunity to assess whether something might really succeed as it contains many elements that are really new and work well sent on quote faulty and. christiane good into moonlight says a writer of dark fantasy novels and sees the software as an opportunity for authors like himself. he could help him learn how to better reach his target audience and tell him if it's worth investing in marketing. going to send his latest work to quali fiction for analysis. listeners should so listen to see it's a bit darker than normal. this is the average this year a bit more intense. here you can see that you managed to maintain the suspense but over time you get more and more extreme. no x.

. in almost every respect you meet the target groups expectations of. the algorithm thinks christan going to his novel has a 23 percent chance of becoming a bestseller. this is what it's the fits and you need to look at it from the view of a publisher looking to appeal to a mass audience and and for that it's a pretty good rating yet to show us what not bad for an unknown writer. of fiction was designed to help publishers who lack the time to read all of the manuscripts they received but authors also appreciate the software's be back for all its apparent prejudices at least we can say that it doesn't judge a book by its cover.

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