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Re:Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depend... by SlowRobotAhead on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:27AM (#19339002)
In this case, a rabbit and duck are approximately the same size and danger level. So few cases where there is harm possible.

What if it was AI looking at bacteria? Or scanning a roadside for IEDs? Or when a guy on a bike when turned and rotated the correct way appears to be a crosswalk paint mark of a guy on a bike?

If our current AI is making different “DEFINITE” determinations based only on image rotation - there is a problem.

Re:Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depend... by mjburgess on Friday March 08, 2019 @03:34PM (#19341897)
Not sure why you're being down-voted, this is exactly the issue.

The image is both a rabbit and a duck regardless of orientation, capturing the object it depicts as a single class with a confidence measure is a mistake.

The magnitude of this mistake becomes apparent when you connect it to real-world decision making, and it becomes highly unsafe.

As is most of ML because it only uses statistical (rather than causal) modelling of the world -- so really, it is only offering us generalised statistical associations. It cannot cope with statistical discontinuities.