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Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by nautilus12 on Monday December 18, 2017 @10:55PM (#15957616)
If you build a machine that builds random types of robots but are negligent to make sure it doesn't create robots that kill people, isn't that still criminal negligence?

I think of these algorithms as being algorithms created and vetted out by algorithms, therefore, its negligent to not understand what they are doing. Since its difficult to know what they are doing, then the risk to use them in this way should be viewed as too great

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Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by dorgo on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:14AM (#15958854)
It's the point of machine learning that no human needs (or often even can) understand how the machine is doing something as long as the target metric is optimized. We are building black boxes which translate input into desired output. And tomorrow we will have black boxes building other black boxes.

The only way to ensure nobody is killed is to add "0 people killed" to the target function of the black box.

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Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by doomjunky on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:37PM (#15982072)
Every heuristic algorithm needs a tollerance

    peopleKilled() < ε
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Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by mygo on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:55PM (#15962916)
“World without end” amen
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