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Saturday, February 08, 2020

On AI Crisis of Confidence

More like a crisis of expectations.   Understanding is good, useful, needed.  But it is not the driving need.   The failures that will occur will first be those of results rather than those of understanding.  Its significant, just not enough to match the hype.  AI is still narrow and contextually insufficiently aware.

How AI will Address its Crisis of Confidence
By Brad Anderson  in ReadwriteWeb

Artificial intelligence has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, becoming smarter and more autonomous than thought possible. However, there’s one area where AI could use some improvement in the decade ahead: transparency. But how will AI address its crises of confidence?

Historically, AI has operated like a black box. Select developers knew how the algorithms inside worked, but for everyone else, the mechanics of the AI remained obscured. Businesses have asked users to trust that AI’s insights are complete and accurate. But without understanding where those insights originated — what data and logic informed their basis — it’s hard to trust AI is as intelligent as it’s made to be.  .... "

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