The *Real* Threat of “Bad AI”
/via http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2018/09/24/trolling-the-ai/ This particular episode of CommitStrip pretty much represents the popular take on AI. Mind you, “popular take” is, as usual, not the same as “realistic”. After all, when you’re designing robust systems, one of the very first things you’ll do is correct for signs that are missing, misplaced, or mis-identified , and if/when self-driving cars actually make their way into the real world, one of the things that they will be is robust against errors at multiple levels. Heck, that’s pretty much the way humans work — our vision is pretty seriously fallible, but we correlate a lot of other information to make sure that we don’t f**k up! Think about how you process visual feedback when driving. You are, unconsciously, running rules like these in your head all the time • A sign saying “60 mph” in a residential neighborhood is clearly wrong • If you are wond...