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Just means the main use case for "AI," (not ML) is probably too ambitious for tech for the foreseeable future. ML has a lot of useful applications for decision
by motohagiography 8y ago
Just means the main use case for "AI," (not ML) is probably too ambitious for tech for the foreseeable future. ML has a lot of useful applications for decision support and data analysis. But the key use case for AI is: to be sufficiently sophisticated that it can shield owners and managers from liability.
I would go so far as to say there are almost no instances where someone using the term "AI" is not referring to the deflection of liability for an outcome from a human owner or manager. It's a euphemism and we should identify it when people use it. Perhaps to coin a phrase, we should specify that AI really means "deflected or diffuse accountability," or DA.
- excalibur 8y agoThat's not exactly wrong, but it's not very sexy either. If you mean to replace the term AI with something more accurate, it needs to be a term its proponents can actually get behind.
- c22 8y agoAccountability Indirection? Ass-covering Intelligence?
- doublekill 8y agoAdversarial AI is mostly about warfare, not business. The focus on adversarial research is to avoid starting a war over an adversarial attack.
- ummonk 8y agoI mean, there are broad areas where automation can improve things. For example, ML analyses of submitted resumes are just as crappy as human analyses of submitted resumes. On the other hand, replacing the resume pre-screen with an automated coding quiz / challenge (or at least providing the automated coding quiz / challenge to people whose resume is filtered out in the human pre-screen) greatly improves the quality of the pre-phone-call screening step.