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You can get out of anything if you put machine learning in between the developers and customers
by vsareto 6y ago
You can get out of anything if you put machine learning in between the developers and customers
- prophesi 6y agoAnd what's extra depressing is that they're usually not lying. For nontrivial AI, the developers can neither sufficiently answer why it does x or why it doesn't do y.
- judge2020 6y agoThey're working on it: https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/30/google-researchers-release-audit-framework-to-close-ai-accountability-gap/ https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/30/google-researchers-releas...
- scarmig 6y agoIt's worth pointing out that, post-firing, the present tense doesn't really apply to Timnit Gebru...
- scarmig 6y agoMachine learning is almost magical in that way: complicated, contextual evaluations of things can be delegated to a black box, and since there's no longer a human people can get angry at for a contested decision, emotions aren't as high and the company can just shrug its shoulders at that silly little computer. It's a cheap way to abdicate moral and social responsibility. It's one reason that AI ethics is a broader field than people worrying about the existential risk of AGI breakout.