Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)

Re:Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t nee... by dcposch on Saturday January 04, 2020 @08:39PM (#21959008)

> we can ask them questions in order to find out how they came to a particular conclusion.

For the most basic cognitive tasks, we typically can't.

If you show someone a picture of a cat and a dog, they can easily recognize which is which.

If you then ask, "but how do you know?", I don't think most people could say anything useful. If it looks like a cat and it walks like a cat...

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Re:Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t nee... by daoxid on Saturday January 04, 2020 @09:28PM (#21959225)

I was more thinking about higher level reasoning. But yes, a lot of the lower level stuff just appears as thoughts in my mind seemingly out of nowhere.

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Re:Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t nee... by lonelappde on Saturday January 04, 2020 @09:41PM (#21959274)

Introspectable Higher level reasoning is irrelevant. Any introspectable higher level reasoning a person can do has already been automated for efficiency.

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Re:Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t nee... by daoxid on Saturday January 04, 2020 @10:18PM (#21959399)

Wait, what? Where has this been automated?

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