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A Big Problem With AI: Even Its Creators Can't Explain How It Works (technologyreview.com)
Last year an experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia was unlike anything demonstrated by Google, Tesla, or General Motors. The car didn't follow a single instruction provided by an engineer or programmer. Instead, it relied entirely on an algorithm that had taught itself to drive by watching a human do it. Getting a car to drive this way was an impressive feat. But it's also a bit unsettling, since it isn't completely clear how the car makes its decisions, argues an article on MIT Technology Review. From the article: The mysterious mind of this vehicle points to a looming issue with artificial intelligence. The car's underlying AI technology, known as deep learning, has proved very powerful at solving problems in recent years, and it has been widely deployed for tasks like image captioning, voice recognition, and language translation. There is now hope that the same techniques will be able to diagnose deadly diseases, make million-dollar trading decisions, and do countless other things to transform whole industries. But this won't happen -- or shouldn't happen -- unless we find ways of making techniques like deep learning more understandable to their creators and accountable to their users. Otherwise it will be hard to predict when failures might occur -- and it's inevitable they will. That's one reason Nvidia's car is still experimental.
My question is, why are MIT Technology Review articles that show up on Slashdot always so technologically stupid?
Have you seen who is president these days? The dumbing down of America continues.
If Obama can get the Peace Prize and bomb Syria, I'm pretty sure Trump can bomb Syria and at least hold on to office.
Obama never bombed Syria. He kept the US out of Syria because the last you want to do is get involved in another country's civil war. Unlike past Republican presidents, Trump may not get a bounce from blowing shit up.
https://mic.com/articles/173543/did-obama-ever-bomb-syria-here-s-how-president-obama-handled-the-syrian-crisis