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Re:BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models by jerf on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @10:09AM (#18441493)
We have centuries/millennia/choose-a-time-frame of experience with what they do, how they tend to perform, and while it's not necessarily perfect, we know how to engineer around their limitations, again, with centuries/millennia/etc. of experience in that field.

Computer models are much younger, and we know they tend to have weird pathological corners, but unlike humans and their weird pathological corners, we have a much less firm grasp on what they are.

In many cases, humans have skin in the game, too. No computer model is yet sophisticated enough to be able to say that about.

There is also some irrationality in having someone to blame, etc. Certainly. But it's not the only part of the story.

Re:BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models by samstave on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:08PM (#18443175)
Your comment made me think of something, perhaps in the larger assessment of the soundness/comfort-level we will/do have with AI decision making:

With the moody, inconsistent people, we can understand and evaluate their incentive reasoning - positive or negative and empathize with that understanding to assign a level of trust.

With any AI - especially to ones who didnt design/create it - any and all of its motivations, incentives are completely (emotionally) opaque to the recipient of the outcomes of its behavior.

I know we are saying the same thing - but unless a "receipt" can be given for a decision to why an AI / NN made a decision, people will not learn to build an understanding of a trust.

Otherwise, AI will always be hated by the humans who feel slighted by the cold decisions of a machine against them.

And that is clearly going to be the real future.

There will be anti-AI terrorism/activism and violence against systems, companies and countries that make life-bending decisions by AI against groups of people.

The seed to this future is the gatekeeping to capital/resources through FICO-like systems.

Re:BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models by cr0sh on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:27PM (#18445071)
> There will be anti-AI terrorism/activism and violence

There's already been bomb attacks in Mexico against nanotechnology researchers, so it's not a big leap from there to AI/ML and other similar research (especially into GAI).

Re:BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models by wpietri on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:06PM (#18443802)
Absolutely. We all daily get practice in understanding humans, so I think humans are much better prepared to handle a rogue employee than a rogue model.