[LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Thu Jul 21 17:15:53 AEST 2016
>BRD wrote:
>> Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code
>> available for scrutiny if things get to court?
At 16:59 +1000 21/7/16, Jim Birch wrote:
>Do you suppose that anyone could understand it? A multilayer neural
>network is essentially a black box. Presumably Tesla's cars have a bunch
>of virtual neural networks in their system. It's the training that makes
>this kind of system work. It might be possible to assess quality of the
>training applied to the system but analysis in the old sense is not going
>to work.
>
>We are increasingly in a world where the relationships between inputs and
>outputs are beyond humans. A human needs to chunk complex inputs down to a
>handful of variables. This is not necessary for a machine. This allows
>new classes of problems to be tackled but some traditional touchstones no
>longer apply. Robots will have top level designers and trainers but not
>"if X do Y" programmers in the traditional sense. Also, according to
>Asimov: psychologists.
This was written in relation to drones, but it applies equally here:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Drones-I.html#CRD
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