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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by gold_mustard on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:23PM (#23709641)
>For example, from the outset, would you object to an AI that made decisions on how harshly to sentence someone based on age & number of prior crimes?

Yes. This is an overly simplistic system for which it would be hard to justify the cost of developing.

>What about hiring or admitting people to college based on the results of an IQ test?

Yes. For the same reason.

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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by Natsu on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:28PM (#23716402)
The first one was intentionally minimalist in order to see how little it took for racial bias to be reconstructed.

For the second, any mental ability test correlates with IQ, so you end up with a different set of difficulties. There have been attempts to, e.g. correct for cultural bias in the tests, but these actually made the problems worse.

I'm not presently aware of anything that makes that situation better.

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