‘Risks posed by AI are real’: EU moves to beat the algorithms that ruin lives | ‘Black-box’ AI-based discrimination seems to be beyond the control of organisations that use it
‘Risks posed by AI are real’: EU moves to beat the algorithms that ruin lives | ‘Black-box’ AI-based discrimination seems to be beyond the control of organisations that use it
6 comments
and then we will be mad when we find ourselves without competent AI developers in Europe and China leaves us in the dirt with cutting edge decision making infrastructure
Well, that’s an interesting way to try and deflect accusations of discriminatory conduct: say it’s the robot’s fault. One of the basic rules of machine learning is: garbage in, garbage out. If you teach your AI with a sexist dataset then the AI will be sexist. Those algorithms didn’t invent discrimination on their own, they just expose discrimination that already permeates the system.
Looking at the title, I thought article would be about legitimate long-term threats AI can pose to mankind if it gets too advanced, but turns out it’s about “threats”, that damage current logically unfounded agendas of some political factions in Europe.
This kind of anti-logical and anti-meritocratic “correcting the past” attitude will be demise of technological progress of the EU compared to world powers that don’t care about such things and will develop technology that EU will be lacking because of aforementioned approach to the issue. Unless the concept of “historically disadvantaged groups” is abandoned and people are all equally judged based on their merit and competence regardless of how hard or easy their life was, progress will be slow and painful.
Putting a lot of trust into data regurgitating algorithms that can’t understand shit is probably not a good idea!
So, people with agendas who don’t know and don’t care how neural networks/AI work want to dictate how they can work and justify it by the age-old cover of fighting something to gain extra points with those voters who also don’t know and care how any of it works.
That won’t backfire…
Well bye bye EU competition in the AI space then haha. The US, China and the UK are steaming ahead with some amazing advancements.
You can regulate but it just means the companies will start elsewhere and export to your markets when they are mature enough to handle the regulatory burden.
The productivity boom these tools are starting to bring is insane and it’s only about to get more insane.