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 lonelappde on Saturday January 04, 2020 @09:44PM (#21959283)

This is tort law, the worst defined laws we have. Liability is far more complex that and usually governed by irrational humans or arbitrary bureaucratic rules contrived by powerful people protecting their interests.

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Re:Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t nee... by danShumway on Saturday January 04, 2020 @09:59PM (#21959334)

But how do black boxes change that? It's still the same people operating under the same laws.

A few commenters here posit that without a black box, designers might be held accountable. If there's a system where software manufacturers would be held accountable for bugs, is any judge going to say, "well, the software is bugged, but they don't know how to fix the bugs, so they're off the hook"?

If there's proof that Twizzlers are poisonous and kill people, the Twizzlers manufacturer can't say, "but we don't know why, we just threw a bunch of chemicals in a vat at random without writing down the labels. So therefore, it's not our fault."

I don't know, can they? I'm not a lawyer, maybe everything in our legal system is way more horrifyingly broken than I assume.

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