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Perhaps ML could be applied here to help filter out the barrage of AI snake oil. Funding, anyone?
by codeulike 7y ago
Perhaps ML could be applied here to help filter out the barrage of AI snake oil. Funding, anyone?
- jonplackett 7y agoSeems legit
- jonplackett 7y agoYou should fund it with an Initial Coin Offering for maximum credibility
- ukd1 7y agoWhere can I buy in?
- ryandrake 7y agoThe key claim of the presentation: “For predicting social outcomes, AI is not substantially better than manual scoring using just a few features” Suggests that only a simple heuristic is needed: if the AI salesman claims their product predicts a social outcome, like a candidate’s job performance or a person’s future criminality, it is snake oil.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoAnd I bet I can beat that with a trivial algorithm: if(marketing copy contains the word 'AI') return 'bullshit'. WRT. presentation, I didn't read it as claiming that just predicting social outcomes is hard; I read it as saying that perception is the only category where "AI" actually works somewhat (from the "automating judgement" part, I'd argue only spam detection works; I'm yet to hear of any effective ML solution for the rest of the bullet points there).
- oldgradstudent 7y agoYou can get high 90% accuracy with a single feature. If it has AI in the title it's snake oil.
- classified 7y agoThat filter would be ludicrously easy to "train". Just grep(1) for the letters 'AI'. I'll blithely take millions and billions of funding for this brilliantly profound vision of a mission to improve life for every single human being on earth for all time to come.