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The Fallacy of AI Functionality
- 13years 4y agoThis article calls out the importance that at present AI must only be used in the context of a tool. It simply is not appropriate in the role of decision maker.
- cs702 4y agoGreat work. In my experience, all these things are frequently true: > the AI label lends itself to inflated claims of functionality that the systems cannot meet > despite the ”intelligent” label, many deployed AI systems used by public agencies [and businesses] involve simple models defined by manually crafted heuristics > AI makes claims to generality while modeling behaviour that is determined by highly constrained and context-specific data > [decision-makers] often define AI with respect to how human-like a system is, and concluded that this could lead to deprioritizing issues more grounded in reality > even critics of technology often hype the very technologies that they critique, as a way of inflating the perception of their dangers ["criti-hype"] Go read the whole thing.