sschepis t1_j7i15xh wrote on February 6, 2023 at 11:00 PM

How this isn't understood yet is beyond me.

Human intelligence is literally constructed on our bias - on our ability to make rapid classification based on sparse data. This ability allows us to make strings of rapid decisions with a relatively low energy cost - It's literally hardwired in the physical structures of the brain.

The idea that the mechanism of bias can possibly be removed without fundamentally affecting the mechanism of intelligence shows that the conversation has veered off-track into the domain of politics and morality.

Which is fine - there's nothing wrong with those discussions - but what use are they if the mechanisms they're discussing are fundamentally misunderstood?

djkoch66 t1_j7ix0io wrote on February 7, 2023 at 2:56 AM

It’s understood but ignored.

sschepis t1_j7ja6kq wrote on February 7, 2023 at 4:46 AM

Which makes it even worse because willful ignorance about a powerful new technology has never worked for anyone.

I wonder if the researchers who performed this study did so with the knowledge that AIs merely optimise processes and that humans now regularly use caricaturists in place of perp sketches because they are so much more effective at triggering recall.

This study 100% exactly confirms the expected and desired outcome of an AI model when faced with this problem and yet somehow even though its a study I get the impression this is supposed to be bad, simply because the fact that biases were exagerated is not exactly news.