boemComputers make mistakes and AI will make things worse — the law must recognize that
We spent decades on educating people that “computers don’t make mistakes” and now you want them to accept that they do?
We filled them with shit, that’s what. We don’t even know how that shit works, anymore.
Let’s be honest here.
HumaniusI agree with this distinction, but ultimately if you are at the receiving end of a decision made my either a classic algorithm or an machine learning algorithm, and a mistake is made… You probably won’t care whether it was the computer making the mistake or the programmer making the mistake.
if you are at the receiving end of a mistake made my either a classic algorithm or an machine learning algorithm, then you probably won’t care whether it was the computer or the programmer making the mistake
I’m absolutely expecting corporations to get away with the argument that “they cannot be blamed for the outcome of a system that they neither control nor understand, and that is shown to work in X% of cases”. Or at least to spend billions trying to.
And in case you think traceability doesn’t matter anyway, think again.
IMHO it’s crucial we defend the “computers don’t make mistakes” fact for two reasons:
