Re:Are you a 'cultural fit' for your job? Machines can now tell
by stonedartist on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:09AM
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>I think we need to teach people who think they can solve every problem with some ML system a lesson in economics because this stuff is getting out of hand.
AI/ML has become one of the most hyped buzzwords lately. People are trying to find any and every area possible to push some kind of ML system into the project. Smart toothbrush that uses "AI" to predict the buildup of plaques. Smart shoes that uses AI to do some niche task... and so on.
Trying to make policy decisions based on highly aggregated historical data without understanding foundations fails because the policy change has an effect on behaviour, summed up by the idiom 'a signal that is being exploited too long ceases to be a useful signal'.
There was already the hilarious case of people putting words like "Oxford", and "Cambridge" in their applications in white font on a white background to trick some ML system that scanned applications for these signals.
I think we need to teach people who think they can solve every problem with some ML system a lesson in economics because this stuff is getting out of hand.