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> If a truck driver gets in to serious accident every 20 years, an algorithms will be blamed for a serious truck accident every 2.4 months - even if it was 100X
by andrewksl 8y ago
> If a truck driver gets in to serious accident every 20 years, an algorithms will be blamed for a serious truck accident every 2.4 months - even if it was 100X better than human! It's an inescapable law of large numbers.
You're comparing 1 driver driving 1 truck to 1 "algorithm" driving 1000 trucks and then comparing the nominal number of accidents.
I'm not an insurer, but I highly doubt they care about individual (human or otherwise) performance. I would bet they do care quite a bit about the accident rates you're attempting to dismiss.
- sytelus 8y agoEach insurance claim has two sides. Someone is ultimately paying someone else. If one algorithm that controlled 1000 trucks was being blamed for accident because of spurious very low probability mistakes, who do you think will be the payer?