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Re:FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol by throwaway09223 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @11:56AM (#25893521)
> The tool just flags features they may have missed.

This is how it functions at first.

Fast forward a few decades and you'll have doctors saying "The computer model flagged this spot as a concern. Our human review can't find anything, but we know that studies show the computer model has a 95% confidence in locating problems so we recommend surgery anyway. Surgery is lower risk than assuming the model is wrong."

Tool dependency changes over time.

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Re:FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol by OnlyOneCannolo on Sunday January 24, 2021 @12:14PM (#25893675)
I agree that it will eventually become mission critical. Until then, they have some time to make the implementation interpretable.
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