Re:Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020)
by kaba0 on Sunday August 01, 2021 @05:17AM
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Isn’t that just human bias seeping through into the data set, so of course the neural net trained on that will show similar biases. The problem here is the human element.
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Re:Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020)
by cratermoon on Sunday August 01, 2021 @11:43AM
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As they say, it's not a technical problem, it's a people problem. But it's not "just" human, it's that the field in general is elevating ML, AI, whatever you want to call it, with hype like "algorithms aren't biases like a human would be", which is technically true, but also trivial. The people creating these systems didn't even consider that they would reflect and even enshrine, with all kind of high-priest-of-technology-blessings, their biases, that's why we got Tay and why things PredPol is terrible. The key is to acknowledge and actively protect against systematic bias, not make a business of it (coughtwitterfacebookcough).