A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence

Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by freeopinion on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:20AM (#28272307)

> human in the loop ML can be extremely useful

Human-in-the-loop ML can be extremely useful in avoiding obvious mistakes.

Human-in-the-loop ML can be extremely useful in fabricating desired results.

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Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by sdenton4 on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:27PM (#28279190)

Not quite sure what point you're trying to make here...

Misusing science is a problem regardless of whether ML is the science in question. It's /already/ a big problem within criminal justice (polygraphs, psychopath tests, etc).

Avoiding 'obvious' mistakes is helpful in reducing the amount of work human raters/evaluators need to do. Automatically classifying 90% of data and leaving 10% for humans can reduce human workloads by 90%, or enable new use-cases where doing 100% of the work simply wasn't feasible. Using ML in this way doesn't make it 'fake AI.'

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