Poking Artificial Intelligence Methods Reveals Clunky Methods
June 11, 2020
DarkCyber loves the word “clunky.” Herewith, the research team declares that flawed AI methods like those used for the Eurovision AI song writing contest are clunky. (You can get more information about the impression machine generated music made on two professional musicians at this link. Yeah, that’s a human puppeteer pulling the strings.)
The article with this information has a juicy, SEO title too:
“AI Has a Big Data Problem. Here’s How to Fix It. Supervised algorithms require lots of data, and often result in shaky predictions. Is it time for the next stage of AI?”
The main point of the write up seems to be:
Speaking at the CogX 2020 conference, British mathematician David Barber said: “The deployment of AI systems is currently clunky. Typically, you go out there, collect your data set, label it, train the system and then deploy it. And that’s it – you don’t revisit the deployed system. But that’s not good if the environment is changing.”
Yikes. Change derails smart software. Is that why DeepMind is good at games which are closed systems following specific rules?
The expert added:
“The AI won’t tell you when it actually isn’t confident about the accuracy of its prediction and needs a human to come in,” said Barber. “There are many uncertainties in these systems. So it is important that the AI can alert the human when it is not confident about its decision.”
Interesting. Two musicians figures out the problem listening to one song. Experts have required years to face up to an underlying problem with human intelligence: Ability to react to change.
Who was that old philosopher who said?
Time changes the nature of the whole world;
Everything passes from one state to another
And nothing stays like itself.
We could ask IBM Watson? Oh, right. Wait. IBM’s cloud fell over. Just like some other over-hyped systems and methods perhaps? No, I won’t mention that AI’s contributions to resolving the pandemic have been less than revolutionary.
Stephen E Arnold, June 11, 2020
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