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