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Humans understand the value of saying "I don't know" then their internally measured probability of accuracy is very low. AIs don't seem to have that "gate," a
by akira2501 5y ago
Humans understand the value of saying "I don't know" then their internally measured probability of accuracy is very low.
AIs don't seem to have that "gate," and to a human, it does make them appear to be very 'foolish' machines.
- ravi-delia 5y agoThat's really a choice. I mean most machine learning models wind up outputting a confidence distribution over possible outputs, so it's up to the user to decide how to extract an answer from that. They can and do have low confidence when they aren't sure.
- oneoff786 5y agoAI do have measures of confidence. It’s just most use cases have them throw out a guess anyway.