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You going to hold the icecream man responsible when the path has a pothole in it? He'll claim a flow of people made it and it's not his responsibility. The fair
by friendlybus 7y ago
You going to hold the icecream man responsible when the path has a pothole in it? He'll claim a flow of people made it and it's not his responsibility. The fairy tale is useful because it focuses on one broad idea in exclusion of the others.
Who is the man holding the smoking gun when algorithms collapse? The business owner is legally left with the responsibility, but finding who programmed the algo to make a mistake is useful & vital.
- sgt101 7y agoYes - agree. If you build a bridge (in many places) you have to sign off on the design - warranting that it is your professional opinion that it will do the job. To do this you normally need to be a chartered or certified engineer and you need professional insurance. If the bridge collapses you get sued and your insurance pays out. You probably don't get more insurance. This is not a perfect system, but we need several elements of it for algorithms. We need the ideas of tolerances, confidence intervals and analysis - certification of fitness for purpose must be limited and constrained to have value. We need professional certification that enables employers and the public to recognize experience and capability. People have confidence in pilots because of their uniforms, qualifications and the checks that they undertake (training, retraining, blood testing, medicals) on a regular basis. As we have seen with the 737 max, when these things breakdown there's trouble.