[LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

[andrew clarke]

On Thu 2016-07-21 16:59:02 UTC+1000, Jim Birch (planetjim at gmail.com) wrote:

> > Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code
> > available for scrutiny if things get to court?
> 
> 
> 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.

"[Potentially] nobody will understand it" seems to me like a poor
rationale for not making the code available to independent auditors to
scrutinise.