• Overzeetop@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    I’m assuming you’re being facetious. If not…well, you’re on the cutting edge of MBA learning.

    There are still some things that just don’t get into books, or drawings, or written content. It’s one of the drawbacks humans have - we keep some things out our brains that just never make it to paper. I say this as someone who has encountered conditions in the field that have no literature on the effect. In the niches and corners of any practical field there are just a few people who do certain types of work, and some of them never write down their experiences. It’s frustrating as a human doing the work, but it would not necessarily be so to a ML assistant unless there is a new ability to understand and identify where solutions don’t exist and go perform expansive research to extend the knowledge. More importantly, it needs the operators holding the purse to approve that expenditure, trusting that the ML output is correct and not asking it to extrapolate in lieu of testing. Will AI/ML be there in 20 years to pick up the slack and put it’s digital foot down stubbornly and point out that lives are at risk? Even as a proponent of ML/AI, I’m not convinced that kind of output is likley - or even desired by the owners and users of the technology.

    I think AI/ML can reduce errors and save lives. I also think it is limited in the scope of risk assessment where there are no documented conditions on which to extrapolate failure mechanisms. Heck, humans are bad at that, too - but maybe more cautious/less confident and aware of such caution/confidence. At least for the foreseeable future.

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      9 months ago

      we keep some things out our brains that just never make it to paper

      ISO 9001 would like to talk to all those people and have them either document, or see the door. Not really cutting edge, more of a basic business certification to even dream about bidding for any government related project (then, people still lie and don’t keep everything documented… and shit happens, but such are people).

      some of them never write down their experiences

      Get a humanoid learning robot, you’ll have a log of everything it experienced at the end of the day, with exact timestamps, photos, and annotations.

      understand and identify where solutions don’t exist and go perform expansive research to extend the knowledge

      Auto-GPT does it. The operator’s purse is why it doesn’t get used much more 😉