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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

One area where Goodhart’s Law gets even more dangerous is in target-based software development, especially Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos. That way it could not die. However, other examples are not so harmless.

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Co-creating volume 3

Innovation 360 Group

World leaders met and easily exceeded the UN’s prior goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. In contrast, strategies based on Technology Drivers investigate problems, many of them unarticulated, and explore how the latest developments are reshaping various sectors.

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Co-creating volume 3

Innovation 360

World leaders met and easily exceeded the UN’s prior goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. In contrast, strategies based on Technology Drivers investigate problems, many of them unarticulated, and explore how the latest developments are reshaping various sectors.