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This is reminding me so much of the movie Rollerball (with James Caan). When he goes to the supercomputer to find answers, and all he gets is the sound of water
by auggierose 4y ago
This is reminding me so much of the movie Rollerball (with James Caan). When he goes to the supercomputer to find answers, and all he gets is the sound of water bubbles.
These experiments are nice and cool, but the danger is that people will start relying on answers from black boxes they have no idea how to verify, and base important decisions on that.
- reaperducer 4y agothe danger is that people will start relying on answers from black boxes they have no idea how to verify, and base important decisions on that. See also: Wikipedia, Google Maps, Google information cards, every voice assistant.
- vagrantJin 4y agoGoogle maps? Please elaborate.
- nneonneo 4y agoGoogle Maps is generally very good, but will occasionally give you stupid and/or illegal directions. Examples include u-turns at intersections where it is explicitly or implicitly prohibited; turns onto the wrong way of one-way streets; round-about directions in the vicinity of your destination - where it usually expects to route you right in front of the building no matter how impractical that is; and of course general ignorance of temporary obstructions like construction. I've received all of these bad directions and more. Many of these things are to be expected if you understand their data sources, and for most drivers who are paying attention to the road more than the GPS, these are non-issues (e.g. drive legally and let it reroute). But, you do have to do more than just purely rely on Google Maps directions.
- senko 4y agoNot disagreeing (unauditable AI output used for decisions is a problem), but what you said equally applies to Wikipedia.
- auggierose 4y agoI would not rely on Wikipedia for anything important, but verify independently. Still, Wikipedia is more trustworthy just because the black box is actually well understood, its humans.
- pessimizer 4y agoAlso it includes references for the purpose of auditing.
- a9h74j 4y ago> people will start relying on answers from black boxes they have no idea how to verify Every rightful critic of radio and TV propoganda, and now AI.