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> Then they wrote one stupid line about their motivations (likely made up to justify playing around with local models) and get completely lambasted for that one
by zem 2y ago
> Then they wrote one stupid line about their motivations (likely made up to justify playing around with local models) and get completely lambasted for that one stupid line.
to be fair, it's worth lambasting them over it because they are perpetuating the myth that AI is bias free (which a lot of people actually do believe!) and putting the weight of mozilla's reputation behind it
- Cacti 2y agothanks but my reputation already has a colorway
- Legend2440 2y agoOn the flip side: A lot of claims of AI bias are overblown and/or straight-up disingenuous. Remember when ProPublica claimed that recidivism prediction models were biased against black people? (https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compas-recidivism-algorithm https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...) They rigged their analysis. There are two different fairness metrics - individual and group-based - that cannot possibly be fulfilled at the same time if there is any difference between the groups. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807v2 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807v2) The model was fair all along according to individual metrics. ProPublica picked their fairness metric so as to make the model appear biased. The whole thing was a lie.
- tbrownaw 2y ago> On the flip side: A lot of claims of AI bias are overblown and/or straight-up disingenuous. The same is true regarding humans though, so "use a magic ai to avoid bias from humans" still doesn't make any sense.
- ertian 2y agoYeah, I think the only real problem with this is that it was posted under the auspices of Mozilla's official foundation. If it was a personal blog post, it'd be just fine.