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Re:AI ‘judge’ can predict court verdicts with 79 per cent ac... by libeclipse on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:52AM (#12797488)
Therein lies the problem of the accuracy of predictions. If there's three AI judges, one gives a court case a 35% chance of being guilty, the other a 40%, and the last a 45%. The case was a guilty. Were the predictions correct?
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Re:AI ‘judge’ can predict court verdicts with 79 per cent ac... by kgwgk on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:59AM (#12797546)
Measuring the accuracy of a single prediction is difficult, but there are reasonable ways to measure the accuracy of a set of predictions. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brier_score
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