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While technically true, the use of tech is still notable here because it was used to launder the mistakes of humans. There is an incorrect tendency to ascribe
by atq2119 5y ago
While technically true, the use of tech is still notable here because it was used to launder the mistakes of humans.
There is an incorrect tendency to ascribe intelligence to AI, which can make especially laypeople prone to assume that if an AI system makes a statement, that statement has a certain sort of validity to it that isn't necessarily justified.
Garbage in garbage out applies to AI just like it applies to any other software system, and society needs to develop more resilience to this fact.
- alisonkisk 5y agoAI had nothing to do with the mistake. The error was in database with poor data quality. The same would have happened if a human recognized the kid and matched him to the (stolen) id card on file.
- mattmcknight 5y agoExactly, it's just that "Teen accused of shoplifting due to unreliable data entry" doesn't get as many clicks. It's not like the database itself was unreliable, or the facial recognition was unreliable.
- atq2119 5y agoYou didn't engage with the core of the argument, which is that the veneer of AI is used to launder the human mistake. Increasing the distance between database input and output gets in the way of human heuristics for recognizing and fixing such mistakes. Yes, the same could have happened without AI, but the probabilities are different.