A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms

Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by hinkley on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:19AM (#15958384)

See, this is the same thing that has turned me off since the very first time I heard of neural nets.

I have no interest at all in a solution that can’t be explained. That’s not a solution, that’s a remedy.

I don’t have a lot of time for humans that know things but can’t articulate them. Why would I make time for a computer that does the same? It doesn’t even earn the courtesy of give a human.

I was drawn into this field by the idea of understanding things and solving problems with them. If AI can’t “show it’s work” homework style, then it might find me a shorter route to the mall but it hasn’t solved anything.

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Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by standyro on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:59AM (#15958531)

Explain in detail all of the minute muscle movements that you make to throw a ball.

Not all things that humans learn are easily articulated or explained, not because those humans aren't articulate, but because they learned actions that are more easily intuited.

Also, on this topic, explainability of machine learning models is a hot field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP7-JtFMLo4 https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04938 https://github.com/marcotcr/lime

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