{"id":12634,"date":"2022-05-20T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12634"},"modified":"2022-05-20T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:31:08","slug":"magic-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/magic-numbers\/12634\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Real Life Mag, May 12, 2022. Treating \u201cthe algorithm\u201d as a kind of divine power misunderstands where algorithmic power comes from. When TikTok first began to amass media attention, a narrative about its \u201ceerily accurate algorithm\u201d became so popular it was almost a self-fulfilling prophecy. Users talked about its algorithm as if it were sentient. (\u201cThe TikTok Algorithm Knew My Sexuality Better Than I Did\u201d\u00a0one headline\u00a0memorably claimed.) In winter 2020, the idea of its omniscience had become so pervasive, it became folded into a particular TikTok genre in which spirit workers \u2014 mediums, astrologers, tarot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/magic-numbers\/12634\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Real Life Mag, May 12, 2022. Treating \u201cthe algorithm\u201d as a kind of divine power misunderstands where algorithmic power comes from. When TikTok first began to amass media attention, a narrative about its \u201ceerily accurate algorithm\u201d became so popular it was almost a self-fulfilling prophecy. Users talked about its algorithm as if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[879,1097,368,243,8],"class_list":["post-12634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-ai","tag-algorithms","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-machine-learning","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12635,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634\/revisions\/12635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}