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Even if the software was messed up there must have been some bank records that they double checked. Don't banks have some sort of the paper trail.

• blondin 5y ago
  this is indeed the mind-boggling part for me. nothing was done to prove these people guilty but simply trust the output of a piece of software. in the deep-mind world we live in today that's a scary thing to do. i am going to have to agree with the group that feel unhappy with the monetary outcome.
  • reddotX 5y ago
    wait until we weaponize the AI and let smart weapons decide who lives or dies
    • catlifeonmars 5y ago
      Does it matter? Humans have an excellent track record of deciding who lives and dies.
      • catlifeonmars 5y ago
        What worries me more is that smarter killing machines will make humans more efficient at killing the “right” people.
• LatteLazy 5y ago
  As I understand it, the issue is there was never a second record. Imagine you run a post office, people pay you cash to post their letter/parcel instead of putting a stamp on it. You are meant to enter into the till every time you do that. Every pound you get this way, you owe 50p to RM who will pickup and deliver whatever is in the bag at the end of the day. You diligently and honestly enter every pound you get into the till. But the till is broken, every time someone buys a Mars bar, it adds one to the count of objects posted. At the end of the month, royal mail think you posted 1000s of extra items. They demand 1000s of extra 50ps. You didn't and don't count every item, that's the tills job. But somehow your losing money. You don't know how, RM don't care they just demand payment. Sooner or later you cannot pay (or refuse as the number must be wrong). Then the courts get involved...