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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by yangl1996 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:27PM (#28395571)
They could have said "35 out of 36" instead of putting some scary number like "94%".
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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by axiom92 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:44PM (#28395786)
35 out of 36 will be scarier to most people. In behavioral psychology they call this "denominator neglect."

https://www.askattest.com/blog/guides/denominator-neglect

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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by jszymborski on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:55PM (#28395903)
Right, but surely sample size matters.
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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by cratermoon on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:37PM (#28395687)
I shortened the title to fit HN limits. Why do you think "34 out of 36 were wrong" is less scary than "94% were wrong"?
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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by rhacker on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:12PM (#28396079)
Another way to think about that: %99.99 of AIs lose chess against our best human player.

When in reality 1 AI consistently beats all Human players every time.

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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by cratermoon on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:16PM (#28396141)
Only if you can go back and demonstrate that the 2 AIs that didn't fail are consistent and demonstrably correct. Otherwise they just got lucky.
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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by yawnxyz on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:56PM (#28396593)
I think if they flipped it and said "Only 1 out of 36 AI systems evaluated was more accurate than ..." would have a higher impact
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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by qweqwweqwe-90i on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:35PM (#28395666)
You mean 34/36
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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by MattGaiser on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:28PM (#28395582)
Is that less scary?
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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by watwut on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:28PM (#28395583)
35 out of 36 is scary.
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