Posted on 06/30/2017 8:19:23 AM PDT by tbw2
Tech companies are creating artificial intelligences to remove spammy comments, trolling and hateful comments. The problems arise from the very design of the AIs from parameters to data sets baking in the biases of the programmers, hard set as the AIs are further trained and enhanced. How will this affect dialogue on the internet? And what are the solutions to it?
As someone once said, “I’m not worried about artificial intelligence, it’s natural stupidity that worries me.”
Because people see machines and AI as coldly logical, they don’t see the biases built in by the human programmers deliberately or indirectly through data set selection and training.
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In order to create an evenhanded AI, you would have to start from the premise that people are equal before the law, and deserve to be judged on their own individual merits.Scott Adams (“Dilbert”) talks about “Cognitive Dissonance” and says that anyone is susceptible to it. You can easily see it in somebody else - but no one can recognize it in themselves.
Adams says that everyone sees their own movie, not reality - and if something breaks your ability to continue seeing the movie you have been watching you will hallucinate something different that does not violate your movie.
I saw that a few days ago when I was talking to someone and he called me a “racist.” When every word I had uttered had scrupulously avoided any such possible implication.
”I know you understand what you think I said,
but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
The example of Bill Nye on Chris Tucker bringing up leakers in the Trump administration when he couldn’t answer the questions “what percentage of global warming is manmade vs natural?” and “how fast are we warming, at what numeric rate?” was truly an ostrich in lap example.
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