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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by cercatrova on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:38AM (#25667956)
In many cases making a neural network explainable is literally impossible. Logic based AI failed in the 90s and only though neural nets have we gotten to human and superhuman level advances. If you want explainability it's going to require giving up a lot of innovation that could help people. Especially when we ourselves can't explain our own behavior psychologically.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:37PM (#25676116)
> In many cases making a neural network explainable is literally impossible.

Then it should be illegal to use on consumer websites. It's that simple.

> If you want explainability it's going to require giving up a lot of innovation that could help people.

Four people died in the US Capitol because of this "innovation". It's time to stop pretending technology doesn't cause more harm than good in these cases.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by cercatrova on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:28PM (#25680740)
I don't like when people try to stop or slow down technological innovation. Technologies are just tools, a nuclear bomb could just as easily have been made into a nuclear power plant. But to fully restrict them shows a lack of foresight. Yes, recommender systems can be used for bad, as yesterday, but they can also be good.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ocdtrekkie on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:56AM (#25685911)
It's likely unrestricted technological innovation will inevitably cause the end of the human species, and your own example demonstrates why: In our rush to create the nuclear bomb, several times we came close to obliterating all life on earth due to simple mistakes. Several times, the hesitation of one man was the only thing that prevented our planet's complete annihilation.

The nuclear bomb is exactly why we need to block "innovation" that causes more harm than good.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by cercatrova on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:01PM (#25688590)
And yet nuclear energy is one of the highest latent energy sources we have, orders of magnitude above solar, wind, coal and so on. If we blocked progress, then we'd have never discovered this.

The question is, how do you know something is bad before developing it? You oftentimes can't put the genie back in the bottle.

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