Re:Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depend...
by mjburgess on Friday March 08, 2019 @03:34PM
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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.
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.