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Re:Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child by vikasnair on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @03:06AM (#29711565)
This is exactly what we’re trying to solve at Unbox (S21).

Tons of potholes like this exist in AI we use everyday. We used to be ML engineers at Siri and had to invest millions into monitoring tools to stay on top. This is fine and all, but what’s better is to catch them before you ship and before your users suffer (sometimes literally, as in this case).

We think that better tools for QA-ing models, which allow more people (not just ML engineers) to get eyes on the model, might help catch mistakes proactively rather than retroactively.

Re:Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child by pkz on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @09:20AM (#29714011)
This made me happy. The state of language models paired with the overoptimistic ideas about AI a lot of people have sets the scene for a number of train wrecks. I hope more people critically evaluate their models before releasing them in mass scale.
Re:Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child by giardini on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @10:28AM (#29714607)
vikasnair says:>"Tons of potholes like this exist in AI we use everyday..."<

Maybe "potholes" is not the correct analogy. Maybe AI is going down the wrong road.