[LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

[Roger Clarke]

>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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