Artificial Intelligence: More Realism Is Not What Overvalued AI Firms Seek
February 24, 2019
I read an article which contained this statement about smart software:
What the AI actually did was urge judges to be more lenient with white people than black people.
Dangerous territory, right?
The source was “Artificial Intelligence: You Know It Isn’t Real, Yeah?”
The write up also points out:
AI is just a bunch of algorithms acting on data it is fed by its human programmers.
Where does this story go in terms of explaining the “reality” of smart software?
Bias is baked in.
Here’s an example from the write up:
Fair objectives are not enough if the data itself is biased. For example, if the courts have been over-sentencing black people for generations – as a result of ignorance, social conditions of certain racial groups or plain malice in the justice system, who knows – letting an AI rip on the unbalanced data simply trains it to be similarly biased. Hiding a field labeled “skin color” does not compensate for anything when the AI’s algorithms charge ahead identifying the same patterns of biased social profiling by the justice system anyway.
Interesting. But those valuations pivot on PR, hyperbole, unrealistic expectations, and the payoff from an exit strategy.
AI is another way for some to surf for a big payday. Accuracy? Reality? Authentic AI? Not necessary.
Stephen E Arnold, February 24, 2019
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An outstanding share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a colleague who has been conducting a little research
on this. And he actually ordered me dinner simply because I stumbled upon it for him…
lol. So allow me to reword this…. Thank YOU for the meal!!
But yeah, thanx for spending some time to talk about this subject here on your web page.