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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by Barrin92 on Monday April 30, 2018 @03:05PM (#16961293)
if we ask what the reasonable expectation is after an advertisement tells a customer that the capability "exceeds human safety" I would say that the average customer thinks of a fully automated system.

This couldn't be further from the truth as automated vehicles still suffer from edge cases (remember the lethal accident involving a concrete pillar) where humans can easily make better decisions.

A system that is advertised as superior to human judgement ought to strictly improve on human performance. Nobody expects that to mean that the car drives perfect 95% of the time but accidentally kills you in a weird situation. This 'idiot savant' characteristic of ML algorithms is what makes them still dangerous in day-to-day situations.

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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by hacker11235 on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:06PM (#16962855)
Yes I totally agree, I think there should be some regulation regarding this area. At least in terms of being clear when advertising. I think it's ok to deploy such a system where in some/most cases the AI will help, but it needs to be made apparent that it can and will fail in some seemingly simple cases.
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