Re:Unwittingly obfuscating the fact that you're not doing AI
by s_Hogg on Saturday June 08, 2019 @07:29AM
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OP Here, glad you liked it!
The thing you're talking about definitely happens heaps as well, because of a fundamental mental blind spot we have. I'd definitely love to hear if you've got any more stories along these lines. The psychology of what makes a successful machine learning project really interests me, and I don't mean in terms of platitudes about openness and transparency.
I'm really tempted to write another post about specifically the sort of thing you talk about in your example - narrative fallacies in machine learning. Basically because we operate in the unknown we tend to want to string the evidence we have together in a nice appealing way.
The thing you're talking about definitely happens heaps as well, because of a fundamental mental blind spot we have. I'd definitely love to hear if you've got any more stories along these lines. The psychology of what makes a successful machine learning project really interests me, and I don't mean in terms of platitudes about openness and transparency.
I'm really tempted to write another post about specifically the sort of thing you talk about in your example - narrative fallacies in machine learning. Basically because we operate in the unknown we tend to want to string the evidence we have together in a nice appealing way.