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Guns don't kill people, its the people who keep loading them with bullets and shooting them at people. ML isn't biased, its the people who keep loading them wi
by lowbloodsugar 6y ago
Guns don't kill people, its the people who keep loading them with bullets and shooting them at people.
ML isn't biased, its the people who keep loading them with biased data, and then running them against photos of people.
- laretluval 6y agoThis was the kind of reasoning that led gun makers to develop safety mechanisms. It isn't clear what a similar safety mechanism would look like for an ML algorithm. Modern ML algorithms are nothing more than generic pattern extractors. What would a safety mechanism look like?
- karpierz 6y agoAnd led to government regulation of distributing guns. Have government grants for ML research be contingent on training on diverse datasets. Fund research into more diverse benchmarks and push them as the goal to beat.
- int_19h 6y agoIt is unethical (and, in many places, a crime) to sell a firearm to somebody whom you know, or reasonably suspect, intends to use it for criminal purposes.
- mempko 6y agoYes, but certainly guns are designed to kill people. Just like an AI.system might be designed to catch "criminals"