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Well, you’re still not going to get to hand-wave away the “why” question. I’ve been working on recommender systems for the past 5 or so years, and I end up spe
by commandlinefan 7y ago
Well, you’re still not going to get to hand-wave away the “why” question. I’ve been working on recommender systems for the past 5 or so years, and I end up spending a lot of my time trying to work backwards to explain why the recommender recommended something that seemed counterintuitive (sometimes because of a bug, sometimes because of the model, sometimes for reasonable reasons). If you work on self driving cars, you’ll similarly be researching and explaining “why” this one drove into a lake this one time.
- natalyarostova 7y agoYeah that's a reasonable counter point to my example, you're right. I guess I used a poor example to try and make a more general point that there will and may already be a time when the black boxes we use exceed our ability to understand the causal mechanisms.