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The concept of "Safety Critical" is something that I wish more software developers and engineers would have exposure to

• godelski 3y ago
  100%. But I really hope that they can learn this concept and understand that it is generalizable and need but require a system that is critical nor dangerous. That the same ideas are essential for simply designing good user experiences. It's really frustrating that this isn't understood well in ML where people end up talking past one another and therefore the extreme ends of the spectrum end up dominating the conversation with equally idiotic ideas. I can't remember the last time I saw someone discuss a confusion matrix, especially when discussing products. But how's that not like one of the most important aspects of your product (I mean internally in teams developing products, not communication to the public. Or discussions in papers)
  • moandcompany 3y ago
    Beyond confusion matricies, with ML classification, there should also be deep discussion and consideration of the actual costs (consequences) of false positives, negatives to the end users and operators.
    • godelski 3y ago
      If you want to know the state of things, I was once told that my ethics section (which is requested by the conference) was unnecessary and overly verbose. This was an image generation paper and the section was only like a 4-5 sentence paragraph. I've shifted to throwing them into my appendix because I find readers look at the appendix but reviewers don't and I care more about communicating to the readers.